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Problems capturing & copying large Quicktimes
Hi all-
Ok.. I’m at my wit’s end. I’ve been hitting the wall with this problem for the last 6 days as my
client’s patience quickly evaporates. I can’t lick it! Has anyone else been in this pickle before??
no… didn’t think so 😉Here’s the deal: Captured a 99min HD feature (1080i) from HDCam in 20 minute chunks (due to
a 60% full XRAID). Used a Blackmagic HDLink Pro card and captured using uncompressed BM 10-bit
codec. Resulting captures were cut into a FCPtimeline and rendered off using the same codec to a single
file using Quicktime conversion. The resulting 720GB .mov can be opened from my XRaid in the finder
and in Quicktime with no problem.However, once I copy the file to the client’s 1T LaCie portable (a fun 5-hour copy!) the file is no
longer recognized by Quicktime. Sure, it has a Quicktime icon in the finder, but there is no preview
available and once I launch it into Quicktime player I get an error -2048 “Quicktime doesn’t recognize
this filetype”. WTF?!?I have tried every method I can think of to complete this process in alternative ways. I’ve rendered
directly to the LaCie drive… I’ve Un-installed Quicktime, and the Blackmagic drivers and re-installed.
I’ve tried different versions of Quicktime and the BM drivers. I’ve tried different external disks (three
different at this point). I’ve tried mounting the externals on a different computer. I’ve tried different
cables. I’ve tried re-capturing several times, and have run every diagnostic I have including Disk Utility,
Disk Warrior, Symantec, etc. I’ve used the Blackmagic Deckcontrol utility to capture. I’ve reset P-Ram,
trashed preferences all to no avail.Under Apple’s supervision, I have also updated the firmware on my Xraid, pulled and cleaned the cables,
and reseated the Blackmagic card and the all fiber connections.I’m not aware of any filesize limitations with Quicktime, but interestingly enough, when I rendered small
chunks of the video out to the external drives (a 200mb chunk) IT was recognized no problem. I wondered
if the Mac file system had issues with large files in the root directory, and tried copying to a sub-directory
but that didn’t work either.This is a process I have done many times in the past for these clients – always without a hitch. The only
thing that has changed recently in my system was a power outtage we experienced two weeks ago. Didn’t
see any adverse affects at the time, but I wonder if this has anything to do with anything…Any input would be great!!
-Matt
MY System Specs:
Dual 2.5 G5 w/ 2.5gb ram
OSX 10.4.2
Quicktime 7.0.2
Blackmagic 5.1
FCP 5.0.2
XRaid 2.7T
Apple Fiber Channel Card -
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it almost sounds like it tried to generate a Quicktime Ref, as opposed to new media. Or when it wrote out header on the file it mis labled it as a red?
QT error 2048 is “noMovieFound”
If it worked before, same drivers, same system, same dog and pony show….. the only other thing i would try, mount all the drives over ethernet on another system, and go through the process.
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