Video Disappearing act on Edit to tape KONA LH help!

[David Battistella]

From the KONA 2 FAQ,

Try this to see if there is an overhead issue

Question: How can I Test RAID performance?

Answer: Here’s how to test your RAID with a real clip:
1) Set up your project with a KONA 2 easy setup (type for easy setup menu; make sure the “show all checkbox” is checked).
2) Create a new sequence ( ). A new sequence will appear in the FCP browser.
3) In the FCP browser, double-click on the sequence; the new sequence will appear in the FCP timeline window.
4) Click on the Effects (tab) in the FCP browser.
5) Go to the Video Generators folder, and drag the appropriate Bars and Tone effect onto the new sequence.
6) Go to the Video Filters -> Video folder and drag the Timecode Generator Effect onto the video track of the new sequence (burned in timecode).
7) From the FCP menu bar, go to FILE -> EXPORT -> QUICKTIME MOVIE.
8) Give it a name and make sure the rendered clip is stored on the RAID.
9) From the FCP menu bar, go to FILE -> IMPORT, and select the clip that you exported in step 8.
10) Create a new sequence and drag the bars and tone clip onto the new sequence.
11) Hold Down the keys; From the FCP menu bar, go to TOOLS -> INTERNAL TOOLS, and select the Playback Meter. The playback meter monitors the RAID performance during playback. One for Audio, one for Video and two for Processing. The Playback meter should remain GREEN (center to right) for all the components it monitors during playback. If any of the performance bars goes to the left, the color will change to yellow or red which signifies that the RAID storage is not keeping up with playback.
12) Play the clip and monitor RAID performance with the Playback Meter.

[Tpix]

Thanks,

The sequences play back fine at full quality in the FCP main interface Canvas/viewer.

It is a fully rendered sequence from a simple ab roll edit. 1 track.

The problem is when I go to edit to tape.

I am clearing the raid and exporting a single video file to the clean raid to see if that works. Should know in xxx hours.

[David Battistella]

Trash your prefs firs and do a restart and repair permissions.

Just in case you haven’t done that yet.

Close all sequences when doing edit to tape as well.

David

[Jeremy Garchow]

Make sure that your tool bench is closed (i.e. the audio mixer and/or the waveform) and is not hising behind your viewer, browser, canvas, timelines, or bins. This has tripped me up in the past.