[Billu Patel]

I’m not editing in H.264 ….. I’m export “to” H.264.

Last week while doing the same, it was able to export to H.264 in about 4hrs or so. I wanted to know why it says it will do the same job in more than 2 days! CPU is always at around 180% use by FCP!

[Billu Patel]

Let me try to explain again.

I have two video streams of a talk. One stream (main stream) has the person talking and the second stream has the feed coming from the PC – for creating the video of the presentaiton.

I need to get clips from the presentation feed video and fit them in the main video stream. Basically it will be the person talking in the video and then a slide (from video stream) appears for 10 to 15s and then the main video starts again.

The two feeds do not have the same framerate though. Main video feed is at normal 29.97fps and PC feed is at 5fps.

I have been able achive this as per my earlier comment with frame rate not causing a problem. However, after about 35min, the video’s audio is jittery and uncomprehensible!! Trying to render again after removing the audio and adding just the audio stream again.

[Billu Patel]

Now I’m trying the following:

1. Add the main video feed in totality.
2. Lock the audio for the main feed.
3. Insert clips (in overwrite mode) of the presentation feed by pointing the movie head at the appropriate point in the timeline.

Lets see if this works….seems to be less time consuming that earlier. Not sure if it will really give me the required stuff with all audio in sync with the video.

Waiting for suggestions for the time being.

[Billu Patel]

I have used PhotoRec successfully to read some files from a bad CF card.

https://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/PhotoRec

Or you can also try ddrescue if you are on a Linux machine.

[Billu Patel]

Does the CF card work in a card reader? Have your tested the 7D with a different card? What about reformatting the card if that is the only card which brings up the error? Is it a CF card or a microdrive?