[Melodie Bryant]

Hi –
I bought Digital Rebellion and tried their file restorer with no success. I don’t know anything about this program, so perhaps there’s something else I could do?

A friend of mine suggested I import my finished TS files into Mpeg Streamclip, export them using DV/DVCPro, take that file and go back into FCP to make any corrections. I tried it. It’s not ideal, though it’s very close.

Any further thoughts? I’m dealing now with some real potential broadcast outlets. Very nervous!

[Melodie Bryant]

I will try it and let you know if it works – thanks!!!

[Melodie Bryant]

Yeah, I have never been better prepared for a disaster – just not this one(!). But what I can I do? Woman plans, God laughs.

[Melodie Bryant]

Thanks – I will definitely do this next time. Geez. External with an additional external back up, mirrored HD, autosave vault, project file saved in multiple places (but all corrupted). And of course this particular issue never occurred to me!

Let me know if anything else occurs to you.

I’ve been advised that if all else fails I can rescue my project with Mpeg Streamclip – import TS files, export w/ DV/DVCPro. This will go straight into FCP timeline, and It looks decent right now, but I have my doubts if I have to recompress to another TS for DVD…

Mel

[Melodie Bryant]

Nevermind. Figured out that you format the card in the camera. Then there’s a patch program to remove unwanted Apple artifacts. After that, it’s pretty much straight ahead.

[Melodie Bryant]

Great – and now for some “Beginner’s” questions(!).

My firmware did not come with instructions as to where in the card the update should be loaded before it goes into the camera.

Secondly, when I go to format the card afterwards, is it enough to just drag the firmware out? If not, as a Mac user, should I use Mac OS Extended, Extended (journaled),Extended (case-sensitive) or Extended case-sensitive journaled) formats to erase?

Sorry to be such a novice here…

[Melodie Bryant]

Howdy Richard –

So I’ve been trying to export a 50 minute movie from Final Cut 5 to Compressor (3.0.5). Never had a problem before. Selecting the 90 minute option. Final Cut always quits at about 65000 frames (GRRR!).

Because this is a sudden problem, I’m wondering if it could have anything to do with the abrupt change in my preferences that happened the other day.

Think this is possible?

Yes, I’ve been up all night trying to do this.

BTW, do you know my friend Simeon Pillich in LA? I notice you play bass. So does he…

[Melodie Bryant]

THAT IS TOTALLY IT!!

Thank you so much – I NEVER would have come up with this. You are a lifesaver!

Melodie

[Melodie Bryant]

Alas, I have not found a solution. Dave La Ronde was notably unhelpful, kept telling me to read the manual (which if he’d checked, I already had in my first post) and was so needlessly mean (“here’s the hand-holding you seem to need, it took me 2 minutes to find this in the manual”)I vowed never to go back to Creative Cow until your post. I actually have a fairly extensive background in composing and engineering for television – I should have started with that and maybe he would have been nicer. Instead, I said I was a beginner with the DVX which indeed I am. Isn’t he there to help? But enough about me.

I did find some work-arounds – which you’ve no doubt discovered. In the recording set-up, you can boost your gain from -50db to -60. It sounds noisy in phones, but when I checked I didn’t find the noise made it into Final Cut. You can also turn off the limiter – same menus – “mic ALC” though clipping can very easily occur.

I took my camera into a cinematography course I was taking and the tech took a look at it. It’s hard to diagnose this because the sounds looks and sound great going in (I always wear phones). We concluded – I had printed out and brought in images of former high wave forms with my Sony and the lower ones with the DVX – that my early Sony audio had really been too high and since I was getting no noise with the DVX I’ve vowed to move forward, tweaking the audio knobs a little, and just pray for the best. Oy.

Let me know what your tech says – I am curious!

Thanks

[Melodie Bryant]

Ouch!

Actually, in my first post I mentioned that I’d been doing that. Sorry I didn’t make that more clear…