weird problem with HDV to ProRes Capture setting

[John Fishback]

Have you trashed prefs & repaired permissions?

John

MacPro 8-core 2.8GHz 8 GB RAM OS 10.5.8 QT7.6.4 Kona 3 Dual Cinema 23 ATI Radeon HD 3870, 24″ TV-Logic Monitor, ATTO ExpressSAS R380 RAID Adapter, PDE enclosure with 8-drive 6TB RAID 5
FCS 3 (FCP 7.0.1, Motion 4.0.1, Comp 3.5.1, DVDSP 4.2.2, Color 1.5.1)

Pro Tools HD w SYNC IO & 192 Digital I/O, Yamaha DM1000, Millennia Media HV-3C, Neumann U87, Schoeps Mk41 mics, Genelec Monitors, PrimaLT ISDN

[Jeff Carbonneau]

i’ve repaired the permissions… haven’t trashed the prefs yet… but could it be as simple as that… i’ll try it , but i never changed the prefs to begin with

[John Fishback]

Prefs periodically get corrupted by normal operations. It’s the first thing I do when FCP starts acting strangely. Trash first, then repair permissions.

John

MacPro 8-core 2.8GHz 8 GB RAM OS 10.5.8 QT7.6.4 Kona 3 Dual Cinema 23 ATI Radeon HD 3870, 24″ TV-Logic Monitor, ATTO ExpressSAS R380 RAID Adapter, PDE enclosure with 8-drive 6TB RAID 5
FCS 3 (FCP 7.0.1, Motion 4.0.1, Comp 3.5.1, DVDSP 4.2.2, Color 1.5.1)

Pro Tools HD w SYNC IO & 192 Digital I/O, Yamaha DM1000, Millennia Media HV-3C, Neumann U87, Schoeps Mk41 mics, Genelec Monitors, PrimaLT ISDN

[Andrew Kimery]

I’ve seen this mentioned a few times else where and it looks like a known issue where the workaround is to just rename the files like you’ve been doing.

-Andrew

3.2GHz 8-core, FCP 6.0.4, 10.5.5
Blackmagic Multibridge Eclipse (6.8.1)

[Arnie Schlissel]

I’ve seen the same problem. I use Automator to add a .mov extension to the end of the files and the problem goes away.

Arnie
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[Erik Naso]

I have been plagued by this this week. Its not pretty. My work flow is HDV captured as prores for all footage I shoot. This is a major BUG! I started to edit after capture and everything was fine. Closed FCP and when I relaunched all the clips in the viewer are now white and the sequence was offline. Even after I added the .mov to all the clips in capture scratch I couldn’t reconnect the media. I ended up re importing the clips after adding the .mov to all the clips and reediting the project. Major pain and time waster. I hope this gets fixed ASAP.
For now don’t edit anything until you change the extensions.

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[Jim Glickert]

Whew! I thought I was the only one with this problem. I searched the forum, but didn’t see anything about it.

I’ve been capturing HDV footage from a Canon HV20 to ProRes without difficulty for the past several years, and all of the sudden my capture files are identified as text files when I look at them in the Finder. Strangely enough, FCP allows me to use the clips for editing.

I trashed my preferences last night (but didn’t think of repairing permissions–I’ll try that tonight) and the problem continued after capturing a test clip.

To address, but not solve, the problem, I open the clips individually in QuickTime Player, then save them as QuickTime self-contained movies. It’s a pain in the rear and a time waster, but at least it takes care of it. I delete the “text” files, then import the new files into my FCP project.

I wish I knew exactly when this problem started (such as the update to 7.0.1), but I don’t.

Sometimes I think I spend more time fooling with computer issues than editing video. 🙂

Jim

[Erik Naso]

Please report this bug to Apple. The more we report it hopefully it will get resolved.
https://www.apple.com/feedback/finalcutpro.html

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[Philip Van dyck]

Problem is solved in the latest pro apps update.