Mike Kahn
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That was it, thanks!
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If you are ingesting a drop frame tape and it hit’s a timecode break, the program is set up to rewind a bit and find exactly where the break occurs and then start a new clip at the beginning of the new timecode. When you ingest a drop frame tape but tell the system to record non-drop frame timecode, it looks for the wrong time when rewinding and gets really confused. This happened to me once when recording a drop frame tape with a 720p60 codec (non-drop codec). I would start with a capture now and every time it hit a timecode break, I would abort the capture, scroll forward a bit and do a new capure now. It seemed to work pretty well but I had to babysit the capture.
Mike
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I actually watched the compressor progress and found (approximately) the frame that was causing the failure. I then went into my sequence and by switching the sequence from timecode to frames, typed in where the compression failed and found the source of the failure. As I thought, it was a filter that was used to make some stylization . In this sequence, it was a filter called Light Ray. I made a new sequence with the same sequence settings, copied the clips used for the effect and pasted them into the new sequence. I then set an in and out and exported a self contained quicktime file. I import this file and place it back into the sequence and because I exported it with the same settings as my current sequence it does not need to be rendered. Then I move on and try to find the next instance of the effect that will cause the output to quit. I do the same thing over and over again until it’s all fixed.
Hope this helps someone else and saves hours.
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I found that the best way to do a batch compression was to highlight all sequences you want to export within FCP and then go to file/export/compressor. This will put them all in compressor into the same “project” and you can either highlight all and select a setting or do a setting for each individually.
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Thanks I think your right. It’s something just in my first act. I exported just the second act and it worked fine.
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It quits the compression and brings the job to the history and says it failed: Quicktime error-50. I have tried to pinpoint the exact spot in the sequence but haven’t been able to. I thought maybe it was a bad permission or something but I’ve updated all the permissions for all the media to read and write.
Also, I tried to output using Quicktime Conversion and it crashed FCP.
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Forgot to mention that I am using Compressor 2.3 and Batch Monitor 2.
Mike
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Thanks for clearing that up for me. So basically I will have to find a place to send it out to change it from 24 to 29.97 unless i get the box.
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I thought that telecine would also work to go from 24fps to 29.97.
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I’m sorry I should have been more specific.
I plan on ouputting a DVCPro HD 720p tape to send out for telecine and then ingesting the telecined tape. Then I would put the beta stock footage back into the sequence and output a 1080i tape for color correction.
Make sense? Should I do something different?
Thanks.