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What are these AV1, AV2 files?
My editor finally sent me back my project, 3 QT files, run about 10 minutes each. But below each of these are clips AV1 & AV2. I asked my editor what these are and says he sometimes gets them, but does not know why. That I should test playing without them.
I tested and the QT’s wont play without them. They add 12GB that I now have to permantly archive on my hardrives. any tips appreciated.
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Don’t have a whole lot to suggest. Just that I have occasional, similar concern after some, but not all, of my captures. I usually get the same types of files when I am having a problem capturing, such as the one I believe I described a few months ago, when my capture video was freezing every 35-40 seconds. Whenever this happened and I had to cut short the capture of a particular clip because it froze, I would later find those types of files in the capture folder. One file seemed to be the “actual” video file, while the companion “numbered” file seemed to be some kind of a reference file. And I learned real quick that one can’t “live” without the other, after I trashed the reference files and then learned the remaining video file wouldn’t play without them. Sorry couldn’t be more help.
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thanks Shot, yeah that is not much help.
I captured and it went well.Editor now says, “well thats what happens when you shoot HD”
If anyone knows what this is please help. It’ killing me on hard drive space.
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Most likely your drive has not been properly formatted. Check info for it. If it’s not Mac OS Extended it should be reformatted and the material captured again to a correctly formatted drive.
All the best,
Tom
Class on Demand DVDs “Complete Training for FCP6,” “Basic Training for FCS2” and “Final Cut Express Made Easy”
Author: “Final Cut Pro 5 Editing Essentials” and “Final Cut Express 3.5 HD Editing Workshop” -
Thanks again Tom!
Ok, I checked all my six drives and they all are indeed OS Extended. thank God.And the capture went well. 29 short QT movies.
Any other ideas? appreciate this as the AV files (whatever they are, what are they?) are a huge space nuiscance. Any way to get rid of them or absorb them into the main QT file (ie how you might flatten an image in PHotoshop– hope that analogy works)
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They’re part of your media, sequential tagged files that make up your captured media. Your material has not been correctly captured. If they had been these files would not exist. You would have single media files.
All the best,
Tom
Class on Demand DVDs “Complete Training for FCP6,” “Basic Training for FCS2” and “Final Cut Express Made Easy”
Author: “Final Cut Pro 5 Editing Essentials” and “Final Cut Express 3.5 HD Editing Workshop” -
Thanks Tom:
The issue persist.What should I do for next time?
And can I fix what I have for this time?All my hard drives are formatted good. The Raw footage looks fine and plays fine.
Could not this have been the fault of the editor? He took the Raw files, did a complex edit, and then REndered, and exported out QT files back to me. It is these “final” QT files that have these AV files below them.
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PS Tom, I just did a test. I just dropped a few of the raw clips in the timeline and exported, and got a QT.mov file, and there were no AV files anywhere. My project though did not have, color correctng, music, transitions etc who knows what other variables that my editor had, but I’d really like to solve this mystery. I can’t be storing Terrabyte of these AV files.
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Tom, I’m having this issue currently so if you’ve gained additional knowledge on this issue since 2007 it would be much appreciated. I am also getting the two AV1, AV2 files when export and the video doesn’t play without them.
The hard drive is formatted to MS-DOS FAT (FAT 32).
What do you mean when you say that the material has not been properly captured? What can be done to avoid this? What are the consequences of this kind of improper capture? How can this issue be resolved so that the final export can still be put on DVD?
Editing on FCP 7 on macbook pro running OS 10.6.7
Any help is greatly appreciated.
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Kevin,
Did you ever figure out exactly what caused the issue? How it was rectified? How it can be avoided? Thanks! -
I had the exact same problem. OS Extended and Journaled hard drives but getting the av1, av2 files. Turns out I had a check box clicked that limited the file size to @3500mb. Un-clicking fixed the problem. Here is a full explanation from Shane Ross. It is part 2 in stock answer 33.
Cheers,
Octavio
https://library.creativecow.net/articles/ross_shane/fcp_faq3.php
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