[Chris Aaron]

Well. It did it again. And I was at the end of film. It seems to keep rewriting the EX1 files no matter what I do. When I pull in some files with media browser it reads them correctly until I close the project and reopen. Then it indexes the clips wrong (even after I have completely deleted any .cfa, .pek, .mscb, or .xmb file (everything) the project reindexes but keeps rewriting the clips incorrectly. It then reads them in the media browser incorrectly so if I try and “make media offline and re-link” the footage it reads the incorrect data from media browser. Though XDCAM Transfer and FCP read all files correctly with nothing out of the ordinary. The weird thing is that every thirtieth attempt at opening the file…the files are miraculously read correctly…so now that is what I am having to resort to…keep opening the project (sometimes for twenty minutes or more) until the program works…

So not only does the auto-index prevent me from finalizing this project but I can’t render off uncompressed pieces of footage in HD because there is no way to do it PPro. How are professionals supposed to use this program if they can not ultimately make a final master copy of the film in Uncompressed HD (for film transfer or color correction or archiving)?

[Chris Aaron]

Huzzah!

Nothing was working… until I deleted an imported project within the main project… now it works… just one file is buggy and I can work around it…

anyone encounter this weird phenomenon again just check and see if you have an imported project within another

[Chris Aaron]

“PPro has the ability to relink media…it does it by itself…”

this is the problem I am speaking about…it ONLY does it by itself so since we all know how reliable computers are why did they not allow human control for these kinds of things…always better safe than sorry

[Chris Aaron]

thanks for advice y’all…

Some files are named similar names (348_002_01 and 348_002_02) but if PPro can’t distinguish between the two then PPro is fundamentally flawed. I’ve clean cache about twenty times…moved file structures and let it rebuild project about eight…even moved similar named files to different drives and let PPro rebuild…nothing…

PPro does not reconnect media like FCP…it conforms to media by indexing…so if I have a clip that starts at 1:14 and ends at 2:20 I could reconnect this time parameter to any clip I wanted…even if the reconnected clip was shorter and only went up to 2:10 FCP would leave a blank space in the clip on timeline for 10 frames…the timeline clips data stayed same and I could reconnect any clip to that data…

In PPro indexing is different…the footage of clips on the timeline on are screwy but the data on those clips is correct (and the metadata on the clips is correct…I click on clips and it is identifying the clips correctly but the source monitor does not show the correct clip)…as soon as PPro indexes or conforms the project not only are the clips in the messed up project screwy but all other saved versions get screwed up (even the very first project created a month ago that I have not touched since)…

I’ve moved everything around, cleaned caches, restarted my computer, removed xmp cfa and other index data to no avail…the problem is in the conforming process it keeps rewriting stuff incorrectly…and as I said I can’t reconnect media…i can conform clips in Bin or Match Source etc but that takes the clips in the timeline and makes them play the correct clip but it erases all of the clips time data so every clip I reconnect it restarts the newly connected clip at 0:00 instead of say 1:14…so this is absolutely pointless in my book…might as well start from scratch…

thanks again guys

and anyone out there using RED camera, P2, or EX1 files for larger projects BEWARE…PPro has worked very well for smaller corporate videos and commercials (it is fast as hell)…but for larger projects the indexing becomes a major issue…I would say completely and definitely not worth the risk as of yet