Trouble playing time lapses

[David Roth weiss]

Several of us answered your last post but you never responded to our questions when we tried to help you.

David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor
David Weiss Productions, Inc.
Los Angeles

POST-PRODUCTION WITHOUT THE USUAL INSANITY™

A forum host of Creative COW’s Business & Marketing, and Indie Film & Documentary forums.

[Coulter Mitchell]

I apologize for not responding to your questions. I don’t know how to find out how it’s formatted, and I don’t know why the filename matters, but it’s ‘george1’. Maybe I’m misunderstanding the question.

[David Roth weiss]

All is forgiven. Okay, let’s figure this out once and for all.

First, open Apple Disk Utility and check the new disk to see how its formatted. Then report back here…

Is the new disk in a firewire enclosure?

David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor
David Weiss Productions, Inc.
Los Angeles

POST-PRODUCTION WITHOUT THE USUAL INSANITY™

A forum host of Creative COW’s Business & Marketing, and Indie Film & Documentary forums.

[Coulter Mitchell]

It’s formatted as MS-DOS file system(FAT32). The new disk is in a firewire enclosure.

[David Roth weiss]

[Atari Norris] “It’s formatted as MS-DOS file system(FAT32).”

Just as I suspected. That’s half of your problem solved right there. FAT32 has a 2 or 4gb file size limitation, so your file transfers are choking at one or the other.

You need to reformat that drive, and every new drive you ever get from this point forward. That’s done in Apple Disk Utility by selecting the drive, selectuing “erase,” and then choosing MAC OS Extended. Its takes just a few seconds.

After reformating the drive properly all the files you copied to it will be erased, but when you copy all the files back your will not have the issues you were having before, all will make the journey.

Check to see if you are able to edit without dropped frames now. If you still have issues with that I’ll help you sort that out next.

David

David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor
David Weiss Productions, Inc.
Los Angeles

POST-PRODUCTION WITHOUT THE USUAL INSANITY™

A forum host of Creative COW’s Business & Marketing, and Indie Film & Documentary forums.

[Adam Taylor]

One other thing springs to mind….are the timelapse shots done “in camera” or in edit?

By that i mean , have you edited a long file into a series of individual frames to create the timelapse?, or did the camera shoot at a slow frame rate and you are just playing back the uneditied clip?

If you have done the edit to get the effect, it could be that you are over taxing the drive. You could try exporting the sequence to a new quicktime movie (same settings as sequence) then re-importing that.
Basically – you create a new consolidated movie clip that does not require the drive to go into overdrive finding every frame from all over the discs area.

adam

Editor/Mixer
Character Options Ltd
Oldham, UK

[Coulter Mitchell]

Thank you David and Adam. I think the problem is that I did the time lapses in the timeline by changing the speed of a very long clip. I’m still having trouble however, now that I reformatted my hard drive, dragging the project over from the other hard drive. It still will say that it’s going to take 12 hrs, and then when I check it the next day, it says ‘error -36’ and only half of the material is copied.

[Adam Taylor]

It sounds to me like you have a massive video file somewhere. Back in the old days – error -36 always used to refer to a scsi problem…but i think that was on Avid so its probably not relevant here..

How long is the finished clip intended to run?

Mark in /out points, alt-A to select the marked clips, then Export – Quicktime Movie.

this should give you a rendered movie file of just the section you highlighted, and should be a more manageable size for exporting to a different drive.

adam

Editor/Mixer
Character Options Ltd
Oldham, UK