Keith Golinski
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Wow! Great reply! Thank you. I will try your recomendations when I get back to the office tomorrow. I do format my cards in camera but have been trashing the BPAV files as well on my MBP. It’s unfortunate if it turns out to be a bad card. I have a feature coming up that I would love to use my camera to shoot with but possibly getting more bad cards from Sony makes me nervous. I guess I can have faith in that I haven’t seen a lot of posts about lost data so it must just be dumb luck. Thanks again and I will let you know if I have any sucess in retrieving the corrupted file.
Cheers.
Happy new year.
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I have been having a similar issue with just one of my cards. It happens completely random. This latest time the first four minutes of a 6 minute clip are not showing up. The last 2 minutes shows up and play fine. The clip, on import, through the XDCAM transfer software broke the clip up into parts. Part one won’t play. Part two will play and import. The clips showed up as .SMI files. I copied the original BPAV files off the cards on set and then imported and transfered to .mp4 files for FCP after the shoot. I took the original BPAV file and copied back to a different card and then tried to play it back in the camera and it still was missing the first 4 minutes of the clip. I re-imported the files into the XDCAM transfer direct from the new card and still was not able to retrieve the first part of the clip. Is there anything I can do?
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I fixed it!
I ended up using the terminal app. in the utilities folder and found the volumes by typing in open /volumes/
the phantom volume appeared in the finder window and I was able to trash it from there opening up 35 gigs of start-up disk space.
so the moral to the story pay close attention to the cache files that motion puts in default folders. You could be losing valuable start-up disk space.
Keith
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So I’m still trying to find the files that are lost on my start-up disc. I found out that the cache retiming files from motion were located in the motion documents folder which I deleted thinking that would solve the problem. It didn’t. So now I’m unable to access the cache files which are taking up about 40 gigs of space on my startup disc. Looks like a fresh install will be the only help at this point.
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I had the same thing happening to footage that I imported. It only happened to one clip on one of my projects an to 3 clips from anohter. It’s completely random. I’ve found that if I bring the clips in question into the cinema tools app and tell it to conform the clips to 23.98, even to though in the analyze clip window it says the clips already are 23.98 I did it anyway. When I re-opened the project the clips in question went off-line and then reconnected on their own and worked perfect. Something in the cinema tools resets the clips to act correctly in the timeline. This is one of two upgrade glitiches that I’m sure they will fix in upcoming updates. Upgrading is all about the work arounds until they fix all the updates. Good luck. Hope this helps.
-Keith
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I’ve never gotten around the terrible credit role problem. I’ve either had to use still frames for credits or made them in After Effects.
After Effects may take longer but the end product really does look much better than the FCP Studio solutions.
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I found that for HD conversions, create a new sd timeline whatever size you want the final product to be. Drag your HD cut to that new SD timeline, Render it out and then export using quicktime conversions to a quicktime video so you can take it into compressor then DVDSP.
There maybe a better way with third party programs but that’s what has worked best for me.Good luck.
Keith
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It’s not just an HDV problem. I’ve had that happen with DV projects as well. The only thing that works is to dump your render files and re-render. It’s a pain but the only way to make sure your timeline changes are properly represented. I’ve posted about this before and only a hand-full of people reponded. It completley kills the work flow. It’s definitely a glitch.
-Keith Golinski
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Glad to help. With every FCP update there’s always little hick-ups along the way and it’s good to have a community here to help.
Take care, happy editing.
-Keith
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For graphics in photoshop they should be set to 72dpi. If I make moves on them, pushes in or pulls I like to use at leaset 150 dpi to give me room once their brought into FCP. If your set to say 300 dpi in photoshop and have to scale down in FCP in a DV codec the graphics or even pictures don’t hold up well. The DV codec is probably the root of you artifacting problems. I try to stay away from doing any kind of motion graphics in FCP especially in the DV codec. I use animation compression on any graphics that I bring into a DV timeline from say After Effects or Motion plus you can get an alpha overlay that way. I find that they look the best that way. I have never had any great luck with FCP studio graphics they just don’t look that great. But your using PSDs so they should work for you. Just make sure that the files your using are close to their 100% scale size when you bring them into your timeline. Click on the Motion tab to check the scale once they’re on the timeline. If they’r having to be scaled way down or up in your timeline to work then scale them in photoshop to get them at least close to the size they will be in FCP. That should help. Good luck.
Keith Golinski
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