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RED media turns solid green
Hi all,
I have been trying to ingest Red media into FCP7 converting it to Apple Prorez 4444. The first batch (1st shooting day) worked fine. When I am trying to do the second batch (2nd shooting day), all the media appears as solid green in the Log and transfer preview window (and after transfer). Funnily, even the first batch, which I successfully imported, appears as green media in the log and transfer window now.
The media is on a G-RAID drive connected via firewire 800. Thinking that it might have been the connection, I copied some RED clips from the first day, and some from the second day to the internal HD. When I open them with Log and transfer window, they all appear as solid green.
Now, I have ruled out the following issues:
1. The media is all fine (I can view it through Red Alert).
2. The connection is not an issue, as I tried to import the RED media from the internal HD without success.
3. The graphic card can’t be an issue, as I imported the first batch just fine.
4. I re-installed the latest RED codec (for Final Cut Studio 3 and QT).
Can anyone help? I read an older thread with a similar issue, but no solution was offered. What can I do?
Thanks a lot in advance.
My specs are:
MacPro, Snow Leopard
Intel Quad Core 2.66GHz
6GB RAM
NVIDIA Geforce GT 120, 512MB -
7 Replies
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Trash FCP prefs, and caches (waveform, thumbnail, etc) and the constant frames folder.
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Thanks. I will give that a shot, even though all of a sudden, after 3 days, it is working again. Very strange.
On another note: I just realised that the cinematographer shot in 2k, 3k and 4k (don’t ask me why). As I finish in 2K, I was wondering if it is better to change the size of all media to 2K on import into FCP (otherwise I have to render a lot in the timeline). However, I didn’t see a change-size option in the log-transfer tool. Any suggestion?
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[Catalin Brylla] “Any suggestion?”
FCP doesn’t handle 3 or 4k at native sizes. You can only log and transfer and end up with 2K media.
Check out this forum for more questions:
https://forums.creativecow.net/redcamera
Jeremy
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Hmmm. This explains why the 4k media was converted to 2k on import. However, the 3k media stays 3k. I can see the size in the FCP browser. Obviously, when I mix 2k and 3k in the timeline I have to render one of them. I will try the transcode suggestions from the other forum you suggested.
Thanks a lot.
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Hate to be the man to give you the possible bad news… but seeing that green, might mean there was a bad CF Card or Red Hard Drive on set. Every time this has happened to me. It was the card or the hard drive from set.. though you might be able to see it in Redcine or Red Alert frame by frame and ry and export frame by frame to create a tiff sequence??? Just brace for the news that it was the card or drive and I would take it out of rotation asap
Drew
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Jeremy, trashing the prefs and thumbnails did not help. The whole thing got back to normal for a day, and then the solid green issue re-appeared today. Again, I copied some raw media to my internal drive and it still shows as green in the L&T window. When I look at it with RedAlert the raw media is fine.
Any idea?
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Corrupt red files do open up in red Alert and Redcine. Have you gone frame by frame and seen any digital interference in these shots while in redAlert?? Have you tried exporting from either redcine, re alert or red rushes? If you have probelms getting a good quicktime in all 3 you have bad red files and again pull that CF card or hard drive off the shoot so you material you keep shooting doesn’t keep going bad. Try rendering in those programs and if not working, you might have to render frame by frame in redalet to make a tiff sequence and then convert to quicktime
Drew
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2398405/
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