[David Roth weiss]

I love the design, it’s about as good as this:

David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor/Colorist & Workflow Consultant
David Weiss Productions
Los Angeles

David is a Creative COW contributing editor and a forum host of the Apple Final Cut Pro forum.

[David Roth weiss]

It sounds like your graphics card is either going bad, needs to be reseated, or needs new drivers installed.

David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor/Colorist & Workflow Consultant
David Weiss Productions
Los Angeles

David is a Creative COW contributing editor and a forum host of the Apple Final Cut Pro forum.

[David Roth weiss]

You seem to have heard only part of the solution… What you need is a SAS card (Atto or Areca), plus a SAS connected enclosure, preferably with four or eight drives.

These wil cost you more than $2000… The card alone will cost you about $1000.

And, there are no Thunderbolt cards for your Mac, you have to have Thunderbolt on the motherboard, meaning a new Mac, plus new storage.

David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor/Colorist & Workflow Consultant
David Weiss Productions
Los Angeles

David is a Creative COW contributing editor and a forum host of the Apple Final Cut Pro forum.

[David Roth weiss]

Peter,

Interestingly, the clip Richard sent did not yield anything useful after my analysis other than the TC difference between Premiere and every other product, just as Richard described. Since he transcoded via a Sony app rather than via the Abobe Media Browser, I thought that some underlying metadata might not have been translated properly, and I recommended that, as a test, he import the camera card directly thru the media browser. He’s doing that now.

I used to have an app that could show all the underlying metadata mostly invisible at the user level, but I’ve lost that app. In the past I was able to identify flags that were inadvertently not triggered by certain recorders and encoding apps, which could be the issue in this case with the translation by the Sony app.

In any case, it will be interesting to see if your developers can pinpoint the issue. Or, if perhaps the issue is fixed simply by importing the card directly via the media browser.

David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor/Colorist & Workflow Consultant
David Weiss Productions
Los Angeles

David is a Creative COW contributing editor and a forum host of the Apple Final Cut Pro forum.

[David Roth weiss]

Send me a clip (like 2-mins long) with known timecide. You can send it to drw000 at mac dot com.

Or…

If you can send the entire card via Dropbox that would be even better, but if not I can understand.

David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor/Colorist & Workflow Consultant
David Weiss Productions
Los Angeles

David is a Creative COW contributing editor and a forum host of the Apple Final Cut Pro forum.

[David Roth weiss]

Gotcha! It’s just a standard test as you know to try to rule out broken XML translation, which is one of silly things that sometimes happens when bigger things in our NLEs get “fixed.”

David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor/Colorist & Workflow Consultant
David Weiss Productions
Los Angeles

David is a Creative COW contributing editor and a forum host of the Apple Final Cut Pro forum.

[David Roth weiss]

Have you tried exporting an EDL to see if that has the same TC issue(s)?

David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor/Colorist & Workflow Consultant
David Weiss Productions
Los Angeles

David is a Creative COW contributing editor and a forum host of the Apple Final Cut Pro forum.

[David Roth weiss]

Perhaps your boot drive is too full for those files? Anyway, you should not be directing render files to the boot drive, they should be on your fastest drive(s), because they must playback in realtime.

David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor/Colorist & Workflow Consultant
David Weiss Productions
Los Angeles

David is a Creative COW contributing editor and a forum host of the Apple Final Cut Pro forum.

[David Roth weiss]

You’ve done everything right so far, the only thing I could suggest would be to get FCP Repair from Digital Rebellion, if it’s still available on their website.

David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor/Colorist & Workflow Consultant
David Weiss Productions
Los Angeles

David is a Creative COW contributing editor and a forum host of the Apple Final Cut Pro forum.

[David Roth weiss]

Of course you woukd, but that’s not gonna happen. The very best you’re gonna get is sequences that relink with the media.

David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor/Colorist & Workflow Consultant
David Weiss Productions
Los Angeles

David is a Creative COW contributing editor and a forum host of the Apple Final Cut Pro forum.