[Alex Vak]

Thanks for the suggestions, I will try TIFF/DPX. I’ve exported to DVCPRO (P2 folder+.mov) and DVD (m2v/mpeg), all problematic. Exported to DVD once sending the sequence to Encore and enabling MRQ there. The output was fine but I’m not sure the quality is equal to PPro/AME. Maybe I’ll try encoding the problem areas alone and cut/join with Quicktime Pro, it does that losslessly, if I’m not mistaken. Source clips are mostly DVCPROHD/720p/23.976 and DVCPROHD/720/25pN. Corruption usually occurs on clip change, but not always. Output is always 25fps.

[Alex Vak]

Thanks for the reply. I’m not sure what you mean by ‘hacked’. Probably not, but CUDA drivers were indeed installed at some point and later uninstalled. Mercury Engine is greyed out. Isolating it, usually gives a proper output. It’s the full exports that give me the headaches.

[Alex Vak]

Try IsoBuster. It has a very interesting feature: assuming you have a faulty disc, you can start reading/extracting it in a DVD-drive, and when that drive becomes unable to read further, you can resume the operation in another drive. Some drives are more capable of correcting/reading through errors than others.

Also, it could be that your disc has some form of copy protection. You should also try it with AnyDVD.

[Alex Vak]

They do provide CMS for Windows, but for some reason it is only compatible with XP (uninstall P2 Viewer first, you must not have them both). After dropping Panasonic an email some months ago, this seems unlikely to change. P2 Viewer is enough for me anyway but I’m not sure what happens if I’ll need to get involved with extensive metadata etc.