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Weird FCP 5.1.2 XML Batch Capture Bug?
Can’t seem to track this down. Yesterday working on a small, quick project shot 6 years ago on DV and needs to be updated with some newly shot material. Captured all day in dv firewire (which I haven’t done in a long long time) with no problems on a desktop. Worked late, wanted to go home, and took an old clamshell dv deck home to log some remaining tapes on my powerbook. The logging went fine, used the dv easy setup, and everything looked okay. i exported an XML of the bin from my powerbook, zipped it, and transferred to my G5. The XML imported just fine everything looked on the up and up. Went to capture this morning and after every capture, the reel number disappears, good thing I caught this on the first go around otherwise I would have no idea which tape was from which reel. After every tape I added the reel number back in.
I have tried to check and uncheck used logged clip settings, I have tried a modified dv easy setup and i trashed preferences. Also tried exporting XML versions 1,2 and 3.
I don’t really see how the reel number could disappear after the capture.
Anyone else have this problem?
For what it’s worth two days ago I swapped XMLs from another machine I have here to batch capture 10 bit uncompressed through my Kona card and everything went flawlessly. is this a firewire thing?
Jeremy
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All my reel numbers have just disappeared after sorting the bin a different way and they won’t come back.
Jeremy
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create a new bin, then drag all the clips into it. do the reel numbers return?
I believe reel numbers are embedded in the media file, so I dont think they are gone.
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They are gone. Nothing. Nada.
i am tracking it down to a drop/non drop issue…i think.
Thanks for the response.
Jeremy
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reel id’s are (or should be) emebeded in the media file … but does fcp actually read that info or is it merely displaying info as logged? if it does read that info, and if, for whatever reason, that info wasn’t embeded during capture, then that might explain the sudden loss of reel id afterwards. doesn’t explain why reel id won’t write though.
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It’s only happening to the stuff I logged at home. It’s some weird dv firewire thing that is messed up between the tape (which has multiple tc formats, tc going back to 00:00:00:00 after 20 minutes of recording and not to mention some bad shooting) and fcp capture presets. THis stuff was shot 6 years ago by an obviously inexperinced dv shooter, I am basically doing this job as a favor and of course it turns out to be a constant trouble shoot. I don’t have the time to figure it out so I’m pushing on with no reel numbers.
Life is good, drink beer.
Jeremy
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It’s all fixed now, and I had to painstakingly figure which which clips were drop or non drop and tell FCP to appropriately digitize. I have no idea what camera this was shot on, but whoever was using it obviously loved to push buttons. The clips are now digitized appropriately and the reel name and log notes are holding.
yay
Jeremy
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