[Kim Rowley]

Either do as Dave suggests or you might want to check out
https://www.digital-heaven.co.uk/dh_dropout
which may be able to fix your faulty footage.
Cheers1

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[Kim Rowley]

That happened to me once too on a spanned clip. After my initial panic I went to the separate “video” and “audio” folders (inside the “contents” folder) and found the file intact. I too had tried everything else. May not be the most professional solution but it worked. Hope this helps.

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[Kim Rowley]

For whoever is interested I worked out a fix ad learned some stuff in the meantime (I am in PAL land):

First: DVCPro50 is lower field dominance while the uncompressed material from Digital Beta is upper. When working in the uncompressed sequence, FCP rightly automatically adds a shift field filter to the P2 shots and up to here all is fine.

When I cut and pasted the sequence into a new sequence with different settings – in my case IMX50 to output using the MXF4mac GC Export plugin – those shift field filters on ALL the P2 clips simply vanished creating a playback issue showing up only on the P2 clips.

So, I deduced that this is a bug within FCP. In a sense FCP “sees” the uncompressed sequence as upper and when you cut and past the entire sequence FCP automatically removes the shift field filter on those DVCPro50 clips.

My fix:

Instead of copy and pasting the sequence into a new sequence with IMX50 settings, I DUPLICATED the uncompressed sequence and changed the sequence settings in the new sequence to IMX50 and the shift field filter stayed put on the DV clips. I exported a section of the new sequence and it looks OK.

A quirky problem that only occurs in mixed format timelines I guess. Is it work reporting to Apple?

Thank to all for your time yesterday.

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[Kim Rowley]

Yeah… I’m asking Santa for a new Mac 🙂
I’ll post back with results tomorrow. Thanks for your help

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[Kim Rowley]

Hmmm… I’m not sure. I’ll check all the menu settings on the camera.

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[Kim Rowley]

Thanks Jeremy. I guess I have my homework for tomorrow. I’ll post back with the results. It will be interesting to see how long Compressor takes to generate the file. Doing it straight from FCP took 2 hours for a 48 minute program.

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[Kim Rowley]

I’m copy and pasting the entire sequence. What do you mean by nesting? That sounds like an interesting idea to try…
Thanks for your time guys. It seems like I always have the weirdest problems 🙂

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[Kim Rowley]

I’ll try that first thing in the morning Jeremy (the work day is over in Italy!). In the 10 bit uncompressed sequence the DVCPro50 stuff HAS the filter (added automatically by FCP) and looks fine next to the Digibeta material. The strange thing is when I place the entire sequence into an empty IMX50 sequence that filter on the P2 shots disappears (maybe because it was added automatically in the first place??) and the same P2 shots have the field dominance problem while the Digibeta shots look fine. I definetly DON’T want to have to pick put each individual P2 shot and add the filter manually.

I am in PAL land so field dominance in Digital Beta is upper.

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[Kim Rowley]

I’m not in front of the computer now so I can’t check but I am sure it is. In fact FCP added that filter. I didn’t. I think that the DVCpro50 is lower field dominance though. In fact the 10 bit uncompressed sequence looks fine. I copied the question to Bjorn at MXF4 mac to see if he’s ever come across this issue.

The maddening this is that copying those clips over to the new sequence FCP DIDN’T copy that particular filter over. The other filters (color corretion… et.) are all in tact. Mysterious! I have to figure it out though since we are starting to build our ompany archive in IMX50…

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[Kim Rowley]

Thanks Miodrag and Dan and apologies to fellow cow members for the inexact info. I’ll be more careful in the future. Cheers!

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