[Mieke Vlaming]

It’s running on Snow Leopard, which I know isn’t ideal but the same version of Avid is running fine on my laptop which has much lower specs and an older version of Snow Leopard. It seems to be a problem with the hard drives, but I’m not sure what the issue could be as there is more than enough space and they are all SATA internal drives…

[Mieke Vlaming]

I think Raphael has the best idea of what the problem is. Sorry, I realize that I probably didn’t explain properly. It looks like bands of colour (Blue and orange and about four per frame) moving/scrolling up the screen. They aren’t very noticeable when played back in real time, but they become very obvious when I increase the speed or scrub through the footage.

I am an editor so don’t know a lot about camera and lighting anomalies, but the fluorescent lighting is the only thing that I could think of that could cause something like this. Initially I thought that the footage had become corrupted when I transcoded from H.264 to ProRes 422 HQ, but the problem exists in the raw footage too. So I can only think that it was shot in camera.

I realize that there probably isn’t a plugin (or at least an affordable one) that could fix a problem like this, but I figured that it was worth a try.