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unable to read the movie file just captured
Hi
I am trying to digitize from a J30 SDI deck using an AJA Kona LH, Mac Pro, Caldigit Element HD hard drive and FCP 7. When FCP gets to the end of a clip I get the message ‘FCP unable to read the movie file just captured’ then no file is present in the
capture scratch folder (or anywhere else). I have tried turning the Mac off and on, trashing preferences, using a different capture setting (I tried capturing as 10 bit uncompressed, 8 bit uncompressed, DV, DVC Pro), and swapping the BNC cables but none of these things worked. The problem is intermittent, I had it all day yesterday and today it is working fine. We have two edit suites with the same setup and the problem occurs on both suites.Any help on this issue would be great.
Thanks
John
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5 Replies
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Log and capture or capture now? Use log and capture.
How are your hard drives formatted?
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Capture now as I don’t have an RS 422 cable for deck control.
The drives are Mac Os Extended – not sure if they are journaled or not, will check and update this post.
Thanks for you response.
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[John Watts] “Capture now as I don’t have an RS 422 cable for deck control.”
And how long are you capturing for? Log and capture would solve this problem. Capture now is unreliable as I think you are finding out.
[John Watts] “The drives are Mac Os Extended – not sure if they are journaled or not, will check and update this post.”
As long as they aren’t FAT32 or something, that rules out a disk problem. But be sure to double check if they are OS Extended (HFS+).
Jeremy
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This is going to sound incredibly strange and potentially absurd, and I was baffled when I figured this out.
Working with 3 different editors, we tried EVERYTHING to get this fixed. Some days it would give us the error, some days it wouldn’t. We reinstalled the OS, updated software, tried different scratch disks, settings, etc, etc…nothing would work. It would work for me one night, then the next morning it wouldn’t work for the other editor.
Here is what I found out:
A) If we unchecked the audio capture, it would work. The audio was causing the problem.
B) The keyboard. Yes. The keyboard was the problem. We figured out that if we held the ESC key down, rather than just hitting it, it would in fact capture properly (audio and video). No joke. We run a lot of tapes through here, so I guess the ESC key has taken a beating.
It sounds crazy, but for us, it worked. I spent endless hours trying to figure out a solution, and it came down to something as simple and stupid as the ESC key.
I normally don’t post on these websites, but I thought I would give this information to someone who was also lost on the matter. Good luck!
Quinn Corkal
Executive Producer
Link Three Media
http://www.linkthreemedia.comVideo/TV Productin, Web Design, Media
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Hello. I have recently had the same problem with having to diable the Audio so that I can capture the video with the – unable to read the movie file just captured error- Apart from the keboard problem, did you find a way to get the audio to be captured as well as the video with any particlar setting? Thanks in advance John
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