[Jay Ingles]

Thanks a lot, that worked.

Im going to try making the floor have luminance and the material of the balls translucent. Wondering if there will be a way to make the light multiply this way. I know real glass wouldn’t behave this way but will dig to see if theres a way to accomplish this.

Thanks again

[Jay Ingles]

Any luck with your search?
Im preparing something very similar and in the same situation.
Interested if you stumbled across anything else. I was considering Zaxwerks 3d Warps for AE, but it just doesn’t handle the way it should.

Hope you’ve got some insight to share 🙂

[Jay Ingles]

hey there. you posted that ages ago and likely dealt with the probs already but heres a very simple and easy technique that might pass or likely be used as a base layer/transfer mode. Using this with a dirty gritty texture that has some sort of gradient on it would work well. Maybe duplicate the layer and use “shatter” plugin and possibly particular for a little bit of a burst of more particles and you’d be good.

https://www.layersmagazine.com/aftereffects-tutorial-creating-transitions.html

/j

jay

[Jay Ingles]

thanks for the detailed response Bjoern. I am very interested in mxf4mac but found it outside of my price point being that im dealing with a peculiar/uncertain problem that might not be resolved with software bc of damaged files.

appreciated.
/j

jay

[Jay Ingles]

thanks again jeremy.

I’ve gone through all the files with MXFInfo and labelled them in their alpha numeric namings (with the addition of 00-03 for audio files). Raylight crashed A LOT when doing a batch so i’d have to drag a couple files into an empty folder and rescan every time. This seemed to work quite well (even tho time consuming). In this way raylight would tell me if it was skipping a file bc it was AUDIO, and at that point i’d rename those files 00-03 and move them to an AUDIO Directory. Fortunately FILESALVAGE (which rescued the files) pulled everything and numbered them sequentially which turned out that the first 4 in a series were audio 1-4 and hte last was the video track.

Using RAYLIGHT i’ve been able to convert almost all of the MXF-Video files to be openable in FCP…which has been great amount of progress on this end. (thanks to yourself and shane)

Now i swore i had raylight able to interpret the MXF audio & video files and make a QT that played back both but not sure what i did to do that.

Im going to keep playing there to sort that out.

I like the idea of working straight from the P2 directories bc it’ll save a lot of media space, but am thinking about how this will affect me when i archive a project and move it to a backup drive. Worried that a relinking of MXF’s down hte road might run into issues. Have you heard anything on these forums about this? No need to respond if you’re busy, im almost there.

thanks again! i owe you a case of beer.
/j

jay

[Jay Ingles]

Hi Jeremy. That was a huge help. Thanks

I feel i can really make some progress soon. I’ve posted some screengrabs incase this helps understand the situation more.

Through MXFinfo i could read a lot of information about a clip but wanted to ask how the “UMID” tag could be of use.

I think im going to go through each clip with MXFinfo and rename each file from what it says [ie: “0014HZ.mxf” in this case/example]. After that i’ll run Raylight on a handful of clips at a time (bc it crashes on the 500+ batch) and hopefully retrieve some valuable video.

Does MXFinfo state if its the audio MXF? From the random ones i chose i only believe it was for video clips but i may be misinterpreting. Example 1 says its got 6 tracks, but i know when i open with raylight its a video file. confusing.

example 1: MXFinfo retrieved info from restored 544.mxf file
https://www.neverinneutral.com/editor/0014HZ.jpg

example 2: list of restored files from FileSalvage
https://www.neverinneutral.com/editor/FileSalvage-Restore.jpg

example 3: Raylight restored videos (no sound, 10s only..demo)
https://www.neverinneutral.com/editor/Raylight-restored.jpg

This last part of the process has been invaluable. thanks!
any farther thoughts? If i’ve got to buy software I’d rather buy HDLog bc i could use it in the future. Tried P2LogPro demo clip repair but it gave me a new p2volume that wasn’t ingestible by FCP.

Thanks a whole lot guys shane & jeremy!

jay

[Jay Ingles]

THanks, i hadn’t realized the naming structure, but since i’ve lost the original file names i was hoping there might be a way to determine if the .mxf file is audio or video without having the “…BLXX.mxf” name.

possible? hopeless?

🙂

jay

[Jay Ingles]

Thanks jeremy.

The MXF files restored have been labelled 1.mxf, 2,mxf … 588.mxf etc. There is no separation or folder structure that exists. I dont know which are audio and which are video.

Any thoughts on deciphering the two? Be it open in a text editor, or anything.

If i sort that out i can use Raylight to batch convert the MXF videos so that at least i can have picture.

jay

[Jay Ingles]

thanks shane…appreciated.
At this point i have ~600 .mxf files in a folder. If i organize the files by filesize i can determine which ones are most important to me bc they are the largest (2-3.5gb). This is a starting ground as far as priority of clips.

I did a test iwth raylight on a small batch of files and it provided me QT’s but without audio (bettter than nothing). When i pointed raylight to the master dir with all the files it crashed.

Although i had tried to ‘train’ filesalvage to search for video ‘.mxf’ files and audio ‘.mxf’ files by providing example files it didn’t determine the difference. So i believe all the mxf files in teh folder are a mix of vid and audio ones.

Audio was recorded on separate data files as well so if i can isolate video (pref with TC, but if not ok) than i can survive.

thanks again.
/j

jay