Brian Beker
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I’m not in love with the NEX-7’s video, either. Stills are great. From what I understand, the newer 8 model has such good low light capabilities that it’s used for extremely deep underwater photography without having to blast too much light and it’s credited with helping discover new deepwater species.
I have to thank you again for fixing my archives, Brad. You can imagine the relief you provided some random dude out there.
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GIVE THAT MAN A CIGAR!!!
Brad —
I do not know how to thank you. Perian was indeed in my System Preferences and removing it restored FCP’s handling of the audio on all those archives. Wow. You, sir, have relieved me of a huge pressure.
I am in your debt.
Brian
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YEs, it must be specific to the laptop I’m on. I tried reloading the former OS then upgraded to Catalina — nothing changed.
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Just tried that, and, alas, no dice. Same thing.
In FCP the clip just appears without audio. When trying it in Quicktime I get this error message:
The document “00000.MTS” could not be opened. An unknown error occurred (1718449215). That error code suggests an incompatible format, which is pretty vague. the files are just AVCHD .MTS files from a FCP-supported Sony NEX-7.
What a maddening issue.
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Hi, Brad —
This issue gets a little stranger. Your guidance to unpack the AVCHD files got me to them. They still won’t play audio in FCP if imported individually. Same with just using Quicktime.
I downloaded the trail version of Uniconverter, and after I run a clip through that and convert it to mp4 or .mov it works in FCP. Doing it this way was diagnostic more than anything because having to do this with hundreds of gigs of clips would be murderous.
So, it seems like there’s something in the system—could it be a pref maybe?—that afflicts these clips. Any thoughts? And thank you.
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When I do that, at first QT only plays one clip in that archive. At first it opens a window with other clips in it, but doesn’t respond to any selection commands other than to play one clip.
But, the good news is that I sent an archive to FCP support at Apple and the audio is alive and well on their machines.
So, the trouble is something in mine. I’m in the field, but hopefully reinstalling software might take care of the issue. I didn’t really think the audio could have disappeared — it would have taken some freakishly unimaginable system aerobatics that probably don’t even exist to do that — but you can imagine my relief at knowing it’s all there.
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Thank you, Brad — I didn’t know that.
When I do that, I get this:
And that big AVCHD file seems to be a consolidated envelope of some kind. The DCIM folder where, IIRC correctly, the individual camera files were is empty.
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No, that won’t work because the FCP cam archives are only readable by FCP, but thank you for the reply.
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Hi, Marvin:
I’ve been having this duplicate clip naming trouble for some time now with my EX3. It seemed at first that the counter would just regress about 10 increments on a subsequent card for a while. A firmware update seemed to make it better, but today both SxS cards in the camera have all the same clip names – the only ones that are different are the ones on the card that has more clips on it. Both cards start with the same number, and the next 55 clips are all identically named. Oy.
Sony’s tech rep said he has no idea but will research and get back to me.
Did you ever find out anything more about this?
Thanks,
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Thanks, Matthew, but I’ve checked all that. Surely I’m missing something, but in CatDV my video all plays terribly. I’ve taken into account everything in the limitations section – nothing seems to help. I’ve changed the Java prefs to lead with 32-bit, I’ve done everything I’ve been able to find out about. Maybe it’s something buried in the CatDV prefs somewhere, but nothing has worked. The video jerks like mad.
Brian
