[Paul Coull]

Hi,

Going out on a limb on this one, but when you open it in quicktime and check the movie properties option. Is there a video, audio and timecode layer. Try deleting it and see how final cut copes with it.

Or resave the video file out of quicktime.

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[Paul Coull]

Hi,

Sounds like a damaged file. Does all the 3 hours of footage open in quicktime?

Unless anyone else can think of away around it. You may have to capture it again but do a capture now.

But one thing I do know, timecode break is not a good thing! Check the recorder heads on your camera.

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[Paul Coull]

Hi,

I know what you mean. I have done this on my showreel. Zoom in on the earth, then country, then city etc. I had to create several different tiffs each one zoomed in a little more. And in the centre was a more detailed part of the next image. When zooming in and mixing between images I motion blurred the edges to get around the pixelated image.

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[Paul Coull]

Hi,

Whenever you create a document in final cut it automatically saves a backup on your system, with the name of your file and a date. Try doing a search in ‘user/documents/final cut pro documents/autosave vault’.

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[Paul Coull]

Hi,

Me again, If you are to send this out on CD, then maybe placing a quicktime installer on as well would work, which you can download.

But if you want something universal that is nearly guaranteed to play on a mac and pc then a muxed mpg1, would be the best.

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[Paul Coull]

Hi,

Okay when using the media tab are you pressing the ‘replace media file’ at the bottom? If when it asks for the file, unhighlight the ‘show matching name only’. If you have already tried this then reinstall motion.

Do the following:

delete
user/library/preferences/com.apple.motion.plist

application/motion app folder

library/receipts/motion.pkg (this may differ dependent on version of motion).

then reinstall.

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[Paul Coull]

Hi,

Did you do a capture now and were there any timecode breaks. Also check your captured movie file and see how big it is (i.e. MB or GB).

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[Paul Coull]

Hi,

Could be one of many things!

On the machine that it works on try

‘File>Export>XML’ (Interchange Format Document)

Then on the other computer you get the error, try in FC

‘File > Import > XML’.

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[Paul Coull]

I Apologies,

My connection must be causing problems!!!

OOPS!!
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[Paul Coull]

Try this,

delete
com.apple.motion.plist

motion app folder

library/receipts/motion.pkg (this may differ dependent on version of motion).

then reinstall.

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