[Don Greening]

[Craig Seeman] “Nonetheless, I’ll continue to help the grazers.”

Udderly commendable. I will endeavour to do the same. However, I’m waiting for the real boss to show up: Cowdog. At least, that’s what I’ve herd.

– Don

[Don Greening]

Read the post at the link below and see if this solves it for you:

https://forums.creativecow.net/readpost/142/858241

If it doesn’t resolve your problem you may have to download the latest version of the Sony Transfer Tool app.

– Don

[Don Greening]

It might be the combined video/audio bitrate is too high in that spot and the set top DVD players can’t keep up. Keep your video target bit rate down around 6.5 and make sure your audio is encoded to the industry standard AC3 file format with a bit rate of 192 (for 2 channel stereo).

Since there’s only one spot where there’s an issue it’s probably not a field order thing, which would also have a similar symptom the way you’ve described it.

– Don

[Don Greening]

[Steven Gaertner] “have the possibility to talk on skype, is there a way to arrange this? “

Sorry, I don’t have Skype. If you copy the .mp4 files back to an empty card there’s the possibility that your EX will rebuild the directory by using the “restore” function. The camera will prompt you to do this. I’ve never had to resort to trying this myself but others have said it worked for them.

Anyway, remember that all the recovered files must be inside the BPAV folder. It sounds like you’ve already done this but perhaps the program you used to recover the files has created extra folders during the recovery process. I wouldn’t know if this is the case just by looking at them.

My only other suggestion is to shoot some more footage, transfer the resulting BPAV folder to your hard drive and note exactly what files and folders are there and how they are contained within the BPAV folder. With that knowledge you could conceivably create a new BPAV folder and duplicate how everything is arranged but using your recovered files instead.

Sorry I can’t be more helpful that this.

– Don

[Don Greening]

[Steven Gaertner] “The whole card was recovered, and I saved every files on the card on an external hard disk “

If you think that all the files from the card were completely recovered then place them into a folder. Name the folder BPAV. Next, put the BPAV folder into another folder and call this one whatever you want: perhaps “recovered files.” Open the Sony Transfer Tool and navigate to the “recovered files” folder and open it. The Transfer app should “see” the BPAV folder and if everything is complete in THAT folder you’ll know right way because your clips will all show up in the main Transfer app window.

If they don’t then the original SxS Pro card directory was not recovered properly and you’ll need to try a modified workflow that I’ve described in a previous post. You’ll find that right here:

https://forums.creativecow.net/readpost/142/859073

Best of luck.

– Don

[Don Greening]

You probably hit a keyboard shortcut that displays the alpha channel instead. Go to the top of the canvas window and choose RGB? (can’t remember) instead of Alpha from the drop down menu.

– Don

[Don Greening]

What type of camera recorded your footage? In the view screen of your camera/deck it will show the audio sample rate of the tape you’re playing back, normally 16 bit 48kHz, If that’s what it shows then just match your tape format and audio sample rate with the same capture preset in “Easy Setups”.

Some cameras (like my PD170) will show a slightly different audio sample rate in the properties tab in the Browser window e.g instead of 48kHz it’ll be something like 47.9997kHz instead. Don’t worry about that and you can play back that audio in the timeline without issue if you go to the “Audio/Video Settings” and make sure that the playback quality is set to “lower”.

Once you’re ready to export your sequence you need to render everything and at that time FCP will not only render your video effects, etc. but will also render the audio to the correct sample rate of 16 bit 48kHz.

Hope this helps.

– Don

[Don Greening]

[Jordan Lannng] “Which version of Final Cut pro runs on these boxes maybe version 4?”

Yep, v.4.5 should be fine. It was known as FCP HD.

– Don

[Don Greening]

[Dean Mikulla] “1-What is the best head cleaning practice aside from sending the cam in for service? Any recommended head cleaners? “

All head cleaning cassettes work pretty much the same way, so keep one in your camera bag and only use it if absolutely necessary. If you’re out on a job and you get a tiling problem you have to use something but the important thing to remember is to follow the head cleaning tape directions to the letter. Don’t overuse it, because it acts like sandpaper and will ruin the camera heads if used improperly. Keep in mind that the warning you saw will also come up if there’s too much humidity inside the tape compartment. I’d get that warning if my hand was sweating and using the camera handheld.

[Dean Mikulla] “2-I read during my forum search on this subject, that you should fast forward and then rewind your tapes prior to recording. Do I do this on the GL2 or my capture cam and if i do it on the GL2 ,does this put extra wear on the GL2? “

It’s just a preventive maintenance thing. But don’t FF right to the end of the tape and back again. Maybe just 15 or 20 sec of fast forward. It’s just to help throw out any little bits of debris that may or may not end up as a head clog. This will also pre-tension the tape against the recording drum. But don’t do this for every tape using your GL2. Just occasionally. It just depends on how often you use the camera. Normally I do the FF/rewind thing with my capture deck but I don’t fast forward the tapes right to the end with the deck, either. But I pre-tension all the tapes I use. Some people don’t and don’t have issues (so they say). I just know what works for me. No tiling issues here.

Now to the real issue: The GL2 cameras have a rather fragile tape transport system that was shared with other Canons like the XL and the XL1s series of camcorders. You’re very smart not to use your GL2 as a capture deck. Since you’ve only run 9 tapes through yours I’m assuming it’s still under warranty? If the warning issue you had was not because the humidity/condensation sensor was tripped and but in fact was caused by the tape transport itself………send your GL2 in for service. That’s my recommendation. Get it fixed by Canon, the folks who built it and know how to service it.

– Don

[Don Greening]

[Gabriele de Simone] “I am not sure how indexing could interfere with Log and Transfer, but that’s just ignorance on my part: I’m sure there’s plenty of things that can go wrong with it… “

That’s why there’s the option to drag any drive into Spotlight’s Privacy Window so the app leaves the drive alone.

With these days of faster processing and read/write speeds I’m sure that journaling your discs wouldn’t be too much of issue with stuff like DV NTSC capture, but larger formats that require more processing might be. To be safe I always recommend to keep Spotlight and Journaling out of the picture for media drives. This is a question that always splits the answers into two camps: those like myself and those that contend that journaling is not the issue it once was. There’s a ton of posts on this topic if one uses the COW’s search function.

Here’s one of them:

https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/8/986462#986615

– Don