[Basem Elsokary]

“Now you’re saying someone else captured this project on this system and now FCP can’t reconnect the media, even after you re-named everything in an attempt to get it to work.”

>> Yes….very strange…

“What happens if you double click the clips into Quicktime? Do they play? It almost sounds to me like something was very wrong with the original capture process because I find it interesting that FCP is telling you the clips are associated with the wrong tape.”

>> When I click on the now modified file (name has been changed), I get the following error:

“The movie file “Name1/Event1-v-1″ cannot be found. Without this file, the movie cannot play properly”

Keep in mind that the “Name1/Event1-v-1” filename it references is the original filename of the subclips. I have since renamed everything to the new name without the backslash ‘/’. That seems to be the central issue, is that, somewhere, it doesn’t want to remove the ‘/’ from the filename, so it doesn’t want to recognize the entire file.

Example of filenames again:

Original:

Name1/Event1-v
Name1/Event1-v-1
name1/Event1-v-2
etc…

New Files:

Name1Event1-v
Name1Event1-v-1
Name1Event1-v-2
etc…

So even though I’m double clicking on the Name1Event1-v file, it still is looking for the Name1/Event1-v-1 subfile. I have even tried renaming the sub clips back with the ‘/’, but it will not allow me to. I get the following error:

“The Name Name1/Event1-v-1 cannot be used. Try using another name, with fewer characters or no punctuation marks.”

[Basem Elsokary]

I was wondering about the backslash, because it worked originally…the file has always been on the same drive…I just moved the drive, and all the contents, from one computer, to another,…now it works on neither computer…

with that said, I tried reconnecting to the original files, but it said the files didn’t exist. So I renamed them, thinking it had a problem with the name…after doing that,…it still didn’t work.

Here are the steps I just tried:

— Right Click Offline File, select Reconnect Media
— In “Reconnect Files” window, i select ‘Locate’, and point to the newly named file.
— I select the correct file, and select ‘Choose’
— I get a dialog saying “The movie file cannot be found. Without this file, the movie cannot play properly” The file it is referring to is a subfile of the main one. For example, the main clip name is Tape1Event1-v, and the because I did a timecode detect, it broke it up into multiple files(Tape1Event1-v-1, Tape1Event1-v-2, etc…) I select the ‘Search’ feature, and point to the corresponding v-1 file, and then v-2, etc until I’ve gone through them all.
— I then get a “File Attribute Mismatch” window with the error:

“Some attributes of one or more of the files you have chosen do not match the attributes of the original. This may cause problems within the sequences that are dependent on them. The attributes that differed are as follows: -Reel Would you like to try to connect them again?”

— I just select ‘continue’ as ‘Try Again’ doesn’t seem to do anything.
— The “Reconnect Files’ window now shows the files in the ‘Files Located’ section.
— I select “Connect”, but then get the following errors:

“The file does not have proper content to reconnect to “Name” clip in sequence “SequenceName”. Click “OK” to make this item independent and go to the next clip or “Cancel” to skip all clips from this file.

— I select “OK” but get the same error for several sequences. At the end of it all, the file is still offline.

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[Basem Elsokary]

I appreciate the feedback….when doing this however, the image gets squeezed more…again, I’ve tried it both with settings of normal and anamorphic when trying to capture,…I’ve also checked the anamorphic field as well,…and its still not properly sizing…

Just to re-iterate my original settings…

My source clip is as follows:

DVCPROHD 1080i60 , Pixel Aspect = HD(1280×1080), anamorphic is not checked. When opening this clip in the viewer,…it has the proper aspect ratio.

if I select the anamorphic setting next to the source clip,…it squeezes it vertically (the image get shorter).

I then media manage it, and recompress using both the DV NTSC 48KHz and DVNTSC 48KHz Anamorphic settigns….they both yield the same exact image…the problem when looking at the recompressed video seems to be in the following settings:

FrameSize – 720×480
Compressor – DV/DVCPRO – NTSC
Pixel Aspect – (1280 x 1080) ***

It seems the Pixel Aspect ratio should be different, I would assume NTSC – CCIR 601

Any idea on why the Pixel Aspect ratio doesn’t correctly convert?

Thanks!

[Basem Elsokary]

I am located just north of Los Angeles…so anywhere in the southern california region would be fine for me.

I received the tape as is from the client. I was about to capture, opened it up, saw some tape sticking out from the cartridge,…I opened it up, wound the tape a bit just so it wouldn’t pop out,…and then let it be.

While I’m comfortable messing around with the tape,…the client is not comfortable with taking any chances, which is why I was wondering if there was a formal repair process that would leave the tape in a condition where it was less likely to get caught or have any major issues.

thanks again for your response.

[Basem Elsokary]

The main reason I was going to cut SD was that I have alot of footage (30+ hours), and was planning on throwing it on a BigDisk or some external firewire drive to hand to an editor…

is your main point that I’m not saving much space? or are there other issues to be concerned with when cutting in SD?

thanks again for the feedback…

[Basem Elsokary]

Thank You both for the tips….

How much space would DVCProHD 1080 take vs. 720? Just trying to figure out the drive space before I order here…

Also, you stated at the online stage to go 10 bit uncompressed…would it make any difference whether or not I went with a DVCProHD 1080 timeline or 720 timeline?

Thanks again for the feedback!

[Basem Elsokary]

Also,

If I do the 2 x firmtek solution, can I RAID across all 8 drives even though I’m using two controllers and 2 4 drive enclosures?

[Basem Elsokary]

Thanks for the great information….

Just a couple follow-ups. Please forgive some of the lack of knowledge in this area…

1. So in your opinion, even though several SATA drive array manufacturers will claim fast enough transfer rates to theortically support uncompressed HD, I should just stay away from those?
2. For the downconverts, a normal SATA array should suffice correct? Is the downconversion occuring in the kona 2 card? or in the deck?

thanks again!