[Michael Adante]

Hi Raf,

Yes, we’ve tried everything below.

Repairing Permissions.
Disk Warrior.
Tech Tools Pro.

We even tried exporting/using an Apple VADriver from a Macbook Pro. (As you can guess the Permissions loved that.)

No dice…

Myself and my colleagues have cut smaller jobs on the XDCAM before and haven’t seen this.

FCS Repair tool analyzed the Crash Log and came back with Data Corruption. Which we’re guessing is in one of the XDCAM files.

It must’ve come across (or happened) when the B-Pav’s we exporting the Quicktimes in Sony’s XDCAM Transfer Utility.

Our best guess is this…

FCP is going past the corrupted data, it’s long gop, so it’s trying to solve it. It can’t and is crashing.

Thoughts? Anyone?

[Michael Adante]

Hi Walter,

It’s the XDCAM EX 35MB VBR.

Like Raf points out, a lot of people with 8 Core machines and 4 cores were having a similar issue.

We just don’t know how to get around this.. one of the editors joked that we could offer a pagan goat sacrifice to the Mac.. hoping to please it.. this is where we’re at.. it’s laughable.. this issue isn’t making sense to anyone. 😀

We’ve repaired permissions in the following softwares:

Maintenance.
FCS Maintenance (by Digital Rebelion)
Tech Tools Pro
Plus the old ‘Safe Boot’ Drive Utility

We’re now considering the following workflow..

1) Media Manage the entire rushes media to Pro Res 422 (keeping same clip names), relink the clips, so it doesn’t effect our current progress…

2) Edit…

3) Export to Color for Grade..

4) Export from Color (using Pro Res HQ or Uncompressed 10-bit) back to FCP..

5) Master to HDCAM SR and create DPX or Cineon.

What do you think? Now the only issue/snag one of my colleagues has brought up is.. if we’re cutting on Pro Res 422, sending to Color.

Would we need to RE-CONFORM the entire project in the original XDCAM EX codec, media manage to ProRes HQ or Uncompressed for the grade? So the images going into Color are 10 bit?

Or is the Pro Res422 good enough to ‘Send to Color’, ‘Grade’ and Output to Prores HQ or Uncompressed 10-bit?

Has anyone gone through this workflow? Any pitfalls above?

Thanks a lot guys.

[Michael Adante]

Thanks Raf,

Seeing that you’ve been working with XDCAM for so long, what do you think the problem could be?

Is the project too big?

What is an Apple VA Driver crash?

We have on average, four to five timelines opened at the same time.

Michael

[Michael Adante]

Thanks guys… we’ll try that.