[Nikos Papadopoulos]

Many thanks for your helpful replies.

[Nikos Papadopoulos]

Thank you Bob, that’s good to know.

If you don’t mind me asking, what is exactly “work and mix sessions” ? I presume various “snapshots” from different points of their work? How could that be useful for me?

Best,
Nikos

[Nikos Papadopoulos]

All my drives are 7200.

I decided to render one sequence at a time. Should be finished by tomorrrow.

thank you all for the help.

[Nikos Papadopoulos]

how can I find if there is a corrupt clip?

The internal has 300gb free out of a total of 500gb. This is the reason I am doing the render there. Actually I thought it would give a better performance.

My G drives are single ones. And topped up. Would you recommend me to buy an aditional drive for the render?

[Nikos Papadopoulos]

That’s exactly how it is Eric. At the beginning green and towards the end red.

I read somewhere that I could tamper with the stills memory cache and changed that to 30% but no difference.

I am doing the edit on a macbook pro 2.8 intel core 2 Duo / 4 GB memory – working with the better performance video card.

The material is on 3 G Tech Drives and the Audio/Video render folder is on the internal HD.

There is something more. I tried twice to do this long render and after about an hour a pop up message appeared: “Not Found” any ideas about that too?

Any workarounds?

[Nikos Papadopoulos]

The sequence settings are Prores 422 LT, 1080 and the subtitle export was also at 1080 HD setings.

The strange thing is that in some areas there is no need for render at all. So, half of the subtitled sequence needs rendering while the other half not.

No filters on the footage at all.

[Nikos Papadopoulos]

Thanks for the reply David.

I did run DiskWarrior on all disks and disabled journaling.

Can you elaborate on “Trash preferences” ?

Many thanks

[Nikos Papadopoulos]

Thank you for trying to help. These file were imported by log and capture and were atomaticaly converted to prores 422 LT. I did not mess around with file names, as the names were given during the log and transfer proccess.

This is definetely a final cut bug.

The problem dissapeared (not solved though, as the reasons remain unknown) with the folowing way:

a) I open one of the backed up files and looked at my rough cut wich consists of sequencies.
b) By playing the 2 specific sequencies on the rough cut, there was no error in the edit.
c) By opening these 2 sequencies on the project browser, there was a different edit !!!!
d) By going back to the rough cut and double clicking on the nested sequence, I could see the original edit.
e) Now I had one specific sequence in the timeline, the same name, the identical sequence, opened in two different tabs. In one tab (the sequence that i entered to through the rough cut) the edit was the original, in the other tab (the one that i opened through the project browser) the edit was distorted !!!
f) I copied the clips of the original edit to a newly created sequence.
g) I deleted the old- problematic sequence
h) i repeated the process with the second sequence that was altered by final cut on its own will.

I hope this will help someone in a similar situation and I keep this question as unsolved, because in reality noone really knows – until now- the reason for this situation. Thank god it was solved.

[Nikos Papadopoulos]

I imported a master clip in a new sequence and it works fine.The same properties. But it was already online, so did not try to reconnect. No errors.

[Nikos Papadopoulos]

same duration, same start-same finish.

regarding timecode:
no in and out set

media start, media end have some properties ( but cannot be seen through finder/quicktime)