Jonny Revolt
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Thanks again for your help! Hopefully I won’t be posting anytime soon, as I try to avoid these problems!
Jonny
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I wanted to post a resolution to the damaged MXF files and the fact they wouldn’t convert from the toast .iso files. I had thought the media was gone and was going to have a bear of an edit because I had 2 hours of the 12 hours that were shot. I had decided as a last ditch effort to send a drive with the media to a friend who was an UNIX programmer. He was able to go in and grab the files and copy them to another folder without mounting the .ISO files. Well I got the drive back and was able to convert 95% of the footage into FCP in the new folders he created (ie. standard OSX folders like they were on the P2 card). So basically the .iso files were not allowing me to read and write all of the data contained in the compressed files, although everything was there. So other than about 8 minutes of damaged footage full of digital noise the entire shoot was saved and I was able to edit a good product in the end. The lesson here is use only tried and true P2 procedures like shot put.
I would like to thank everyone who helped with this and I know what to tell people on set to do before I get the footage and don’t have another nightmare
Jonny
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BTW what program did you use to open the MXF file? I tried it with Xcode…
Jonny
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Yep do what ya can do, and that’s all you can do in post, wasn’t there I am just the editor. So now it’s time to get clever.
Jonny
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I will try that in P2cms, I have been able to also open the MXF files in QT and export them as ProRes Qt’s and then stitch the video and audio back together in FCP. Thanks again for your help.
Jonny
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Jeremy thank you so much for looking into this. The clip I sent you was one of the worst clips. Right now I have about 80% of the project online. It’s crazy because some clips came in fine some clips are fine for the first couple of minutes and then go bad and some clips like you saw were completely bad. Also there have been some cases where I have been able to recover the audio but not the video.
Is there anything that can be done with files that are partially there but grey out half way through?
Thanks
Jonny
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24p over 60
Jonny
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Crazy isn’t it. The DP does not have the files as he was on location in Europe and was off loading to a drive… I know this is a bit crazy and I have been worried since this is all stuff shot on location. Is there a way to rip open the MXF package and look at the image sequence?
Jonny
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It’s up and it is 280mb.
Jonny
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I popped it in my public folder on my idisk (r e v o l t t v), like my cow user name it will be ready in 30 minutes. Also, I used P2 Log Pro repair wizard to make one complete P2 file I hope that’s OK. The clip is having the same exact problems as the original card. Thanks again for taking a look!
Jonny