[Gary Lieberman]

I have the same problem with 5d Mk II H264 footage.

I’ve had the red exclamation point on a file – truncated well before the end. Re-transferring it worked out fine (even though the file ingested was given a new filename).

Unfortunately, I’ve had several files ingesting (seemingly) fine, only to realize they are truncated, sometimes minutes from the end, with no logging errors during ingestion.

I am not setting In/Out points during L&T

I’ll try Log and Transfer one file at a time perhaps to see if it’s some RAM issue… My file lenghts go from 10 secs to 10 mins, but this happens on 1 minute files as well….. any other thoughts?

I’ve started editing, so now it’s a nightmare to go back and check H264 v. ProRes LT file-lengths one by one!

2 x 2.66 Dual-Core Xeon
13 Gb RAM
OS X 10.6.8
FCP 7.0.3

[Gary Lieberman]

Thanks for your kind answers

HOW did you convert to ProRes Proxy?

Using Mpeg Streamclip, and my clips come in with the Reel number blank… Not sure if EOS gives Reel numbers to begin with though…

As long as the footage you are doing it to actually comes from different reels. If you try to add the same reel number to footage from multiple cards, that might cause an issue.

Indeed, multiple cards were transferred to one folder on a hard-drive, and given to me.

I did not use Log & Transfer, which I’m realizing now I should have… in order to assign a Reel number to the original H264.

Regardless, when I assign a manual Reel number to the Proxies in the browser, I get clip rendering corruption in the first frames of some shots, and others’ In/Out points are off when I render out the entire movie in ProRes Proxy…

If I open those clips in QuickTime 7, I can see that there are 2 types of TC – one “Standard”, one “Non-Drop Frame”, whereas before the manual Reel change, I only had the option of “Standard”

I’m realizing I need to use Log & Transfer in the future, so that the high-res H264 has the same metadata convention (and newly assigned “Reels”) that is then retained in the Proxies, and the editing thereof…

For now, just looking for how to assign Reels, after editing without them, if that’s possible without confusing FCP…