Kevin Hamm
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I’m curious as to how that works. If you don’t have your source files with you at home, are you just editing non-connected media, or do you have smaller versions also on that FW800 drive? I get dropped frames when playing back full 1080i60 from the Drobopro if I have anything else touching it, but so long as I don’t, it’s clean and pretty. Well, unless I was running the camera, but that’s neither here nor there.
If you have a smaller clip, remove the smoothcam filter, save, then reapply it, and see if you get different results. It might be worth it to just remove and reapply and let the computer fuss it out over the weekend and come back to it being fine on monday.
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Um, we did pay for one of the higher versions of Flip4Mac as we have to, sometimes, dance with the devil in the pale moonlight. I mean, create WMV files for clients who can’t get iTunes on their computers because their IT departments are full of trolls.
So yeah, they might need to spend 40 bucks. But still…
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Whenever I’ve gotten the “General Error” it’s time to repair permissions. I’ve had that happen 3 times since upgrading to FCS3, but not again since I upgraded to Snow Leopard as well and did a repair right away just to make sure.
As for files disappearing, the other thing that could have happened is that you made the folder they were in invisible by somehow activating the renaming function in the finder and putting a period before the name of the folder. If you want to see your hidden folders, I cheat and use Transmit, from Panic, to browse my computer and see what folders are hidden, and if I know something like this is up, I generally find them.
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Ok, while this may seem like a dumb question, it’s happened to a person I know and who shall remain nameless (*ahem* me) but did you move the captures and renders to the new machine to or did you just move the FCP project and you’re actually trying to pull HD footage over your network?
If it’s not that, you might check your system profile and make sure that your drives are connected and showing the correct information there, and, then, if that’s fine, do the great old standby, repair preferences.
If that doesn’t clear it up, and you still run into the issue, since the computer is new, and you have the new FCS3, call AppleCare and get them involved. The ProApps team is very good, and they might have run into this already, too.
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You can download the Windows Media components for Quicktime from Microsoft, then open the files in QuickTime and export to AIFF and you’re good.
Or, you can play the files in Windows media and use a double-male audio jack like to link your headphone out to your audio in on your computer and record them into QuickTime that way, although you run the risk of getting other system noise and degrading the sound. I’ve found, tho, that this is what I’m usually stuck with when trying to strip audio from a muxed MPEG2 file. Such fun!
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Do you have any speed changes on the clips? We had this problem with a clip and we just removed the speed changes, re-rendered and it was fine, then added the speed changes back and it worked fine.
The other option is to delete the analysis file and let it re-analyze the clip, but that would be a nightmare.
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We have made the leap to go tapeless, and we went with Sony PMW-EX1’s for the cameras, so we record to XDCAM, and yes, we have to “Log & Transfer” but since it’s not transcoding the footage, just creating the QT container, it’s been quite smooth.
The sweet thing about the EX1’s is that Log & Transfer is both quick and clean, and the final file you can just drop in your timeline and go. However, be sure to change your render type to ProRes422 HQ as the GOP(?) of XDCAM is really long, so when you make any edit, you have to re-render huge swaths of video. That was an annoyance that I didn’t know of up front, but thankfully, you can set that once and forget it in FCP7.
We do a couple of things that are probably not a concern for you, as we are a very small shop (4 people). We capture to a fully-racked Drobopro, which has eight 2 TB drives in it, for a functional protected space of 14.55 TB, and that is backed up to a second Drobopro of the same size just in case. And we have every capture we make burned to DVD and stored off-site, also just in case.
That’s how we’re going tapeless. And right now we’re doing the last bit of the project and creating a digital archive of our thousands of tapes. I’m thinking that we’ll have to reduce the files down to something small, but I haven’t decided on what yet. Photo-JPEG for video and then just store the audio as an MP3? Maybe, but I’m still working on that one.
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huh. I keep thinking that the more I find out the less I know. I will try this, and post my results.
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I’ve read that note, and it seems to be the output is not my particular issue, especially since my monitor doesn’t support CC anyway (another issue entirely). My problem is that it appears that the CC isn’t being written to the tape, although it might be as metadata 608 instead of Line 21, but that would be weird in the extreme.
Today I’m going to test and see if files containing the 608 CC info are useful for our broadcast. If they are, great. If not, I’m back to square one.
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So I called Jason Livingston, and while I’m still not happy, most of my anger is not focused at CPC anymore. I’m looking at the FCC and some other companies that see “required by law” and think “I can rape and pillage without ramifications”. I’m still not happy with the costs, but I do understand that we all have to do business, and without seeing their balance sheet, I’m not going to continue to say that CPC is flat out evil. Jason is quite thoughtful and very well-informed, and, most shocking of all, he’s helpful. We don’t have a solution, but we’ve marked out someone who is not part of the problem.
And I guess that’s the situation we are in now. More soon, as I need to get the answers immediately.
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