Eddie Adams
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Here’s another issue I’ve been having, in a completely different project. You select a series of clips and group them – suddenly within the group there are one-frame gaps between each clip.
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hey Jeremy – the clips that are problems are named “2 Lacey & Justin” and all refer to the same master file. This has been the problem the last two times around. Initially, I had the exact same problem with a file called “3 Cooks”, completely different master file – slid all those clips -15 frames to fix it, and havent had any issues since.
Yup, first thing I did was restart, trash preferences, copy-paste into new project file, everything – no luck.
Clips are HDV’s captured using FCP7. Just doesn’t make any sense – and is actually one of many bugs I’ve been finding in FCPX – so it looks like I’m gonna have to jump back onto Premiere, I just cant afford all the downtime this has caused me.
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Jeremy, although I don’t think there was ever a dissolve on the first clip in the primary, the first clip is the same interview (master file) that i’m having the issues with, and many of the clips referring to the master further down the timeline do have 2-frame dissolves on them to bridge frankenbite edits. After fixing the problem by sliding all the clips -15 frames as needed for proper adjustment, I went to open the file today and everything is f-ed again, same as before.
Bill – I apologize for the vagueness of the post. I wasn’t really asking for help or troubleshooting tips – more just seeing if anybody had seen issues like that before. I’ve attached a screenshot to illustrate my setup.
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The whole idea is to use waveforms to help me quickly mark in/out points to drop clips into the timeline – so this needs to happen in the viewer, not in the timeline. Thanks for the suggestion though.
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Anybody? Is this not possible?
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Can you explain in more detail how you got this to work? I cannot bring up audio by alt-double click.
I’m trying to view the audio waveform and video at the same time, the way FCPX allows. Is that what you’re trying to do as well?
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Just to update, I have found the root of my problem, and no, it’s not fixable.
What happened was, apparently when the project was copied from the External to the Internal drive, the transfer did not complete successfully. Although opening the root folder on the internal drive showed that all the file sizes matched, appearing that all the data had been copied, it in fact had only copied about 30% of the data. This is evident by opening the root folder, sorting by name (which i presume is how Finder determines the order of transfer), and seeing a definite line where the ‘corruption’ begins. My guess was the machine transferring the files suffered a freeze/hard reboot in the middle of a transfer and glitched out somehow, making it appear that all the files were copied (file names, sizes, etc all matched)- but 70% of the files containing no actual data.
An user error, a stupid one at that, and foolish for not double-checking a successful transfer before erasing the External drive. A (costly) lesson learned the hard way….
Can anybody recommend a good hashcheck program, capable of checking entire directories at one time (not just single files), that runs under ML?
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So I’ve narrowed this down to what appears to be corrupt media on the drive. Using Finder to explore the contents of the folders, I can see that over half my quicktime files and almost all my image files are corrupt and will not open. I’ve tried all the tricks- changing the extension, opening with different programs, running 3 different “Media Salvage” type programs on it – and everything comes back with “zero data found”.
This is a huge corruption across the entire project, and unfortunately we do not have the master media files backed up on a separate drive (ya, the original masters and transcoded project files lived on the same drive… and are now both corrupt… shit).
I’m wondering – are there ANY miracles that people can suggest may salvage this data? Any ideas as to why this mass corruption occurred in the first place? The project folder was copied off an external drive onto a internal “archive” drive. Only this project folder seems to have corrupt files on it. Unfortunately the external drive has since been wiped, so no other copy exists except for the Time Machine Backup (which you guessed it, deleted the old backups in place of the new ones, probably replacing good data with the corrupt).
What can I do to ensure this does not happen in the future? When moving rojects from drive-to-drive, is there a program I can use to ensure nothing corrupts in the process (hash checks, perhaps)? Thanks.
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Thanks for all the awesome replies. Now… any suggestions for the keyboard hand? Moving back and forth across the keyboard, contorting and twisting to hit keys has that arm/wrist in the most pain currently. Any suggestions there?
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ive heard this tip as well. is there a difference between the Intous and Bamboo series, other than a major price difference?
