[Paul Van nierop]

Hi,

I don’t have all answers, but perhaps some. I had good experience with replacing aliases by just dragging the originals to the same folders and choose “overwrite”. They replaced the aliases just fine.
Good luck, but please try it out before going for the real thing.
Paul

[Paul Van nierop]

Hi,

You can easily do the same thing as Project Manager by creating (in root) folders called: Final Cut Events Not in Use and Final Cut Projects Not in Use. The events and projects you want FCPX to ignore, are selected and dragged with Finder into them in just over 2 seconds. You want to work on them again? Same procedure in reverse and they are back in Final Cut Events/Projects and are back in sight of FCPX. Good luck. Only, Project Manager can see drives, that FCPX can’t.
Paul

[Paul Van nierop]

Hi John,

I found Panasonic BDR’s to be quite long lasting and affordable. My initial question was on WHAT to burn on them. With my drives I don’t be that picking, with BDR’s I want to. I try to look 25 years ahead, see? Any thoughts?

Paul

[Paul Van nierop]

Hi Bret and John,
I’m afraid we talk different languages. Hard drives are excellent media for, say, 5 years. I’m talking 25 years. I have all those files stored on hard drives, just as you said, I have RAID arrays full of them (10TB), all OK. But that’s not archiving, that’s backing up.
Don’t ask me IF I want to archive those clips, but talk HOW to archive them. Remember the old family films that pop up of our youth? That’s the idea. HDD’s will certainly NOT do on that term. Archiving is looking ahead over a much longer period. That’s my point.
Sorry to notice, that everybody starts talking about HDD’s over and over. They are fine, but, helas, not for my purpose.
But still thanks for your reactions,
Paul

[Paul Van nierop]

Edit:
The actual repair I did simply with Finder: he sequence shows the mini-thumbnails, the corrupted one is plainly visible. I copied the previous frame and replaced it for the corrupted one. That’s all. Not perfect (the movement is interrupted, but that’s invisible), but very satisfying.

[Paul Van nierop]

To Jacques Siron & Jennifer Diaz

Thanks for your reaction. I will try your suggestions, but it seems a matter of good or bad luck whether the results are clean or not. At least it’s a comfort that others face the same issue. I take it, that you don’t know of a method to replace the individual corrupted frames? I could export the clip as an Image sequence, then repair the bad frames and re-import it. Rather a pain.

Here is how I did it, for those who might benefit.
First set markers around the corrupted frame. Then put in- and out points at the same locations. File > Share > Export Image Sequence to a folder on the desktop. Opened Motion. From the Project Browser selected Create Project From File. Selected the Image Sequence and imported to as project. Exported it: Share > Export Movie. In FCPX imported the movie and placed it over the corrupted selection. Worked well, except for one detail: the new clips is shorter than the original. Why? I will start a new Post.

The other day, someone told me, that the JVC non-professional videocamera’s have a bad record when it comes to accuracy. My shooting was made with a GZ-HD5E, not the cheapest, with 3CCD technique.
Especially under poor light circumstances the shots are not good. Can any of you confirm, that this might be the basic reason for my problems? A two camera shooting of a concert is fine, but not if in postproduction everything goes wrong.

[Paul Van nierop]

To Jacques Siron & Jennifer Diaz

Thanks for your reaction. I will try your suggestions, but it seems a matter of good or bad luck whether the results are clean or not. At least it’s a comfort that others face the same issue. I take it, that you don’t know of a method to replace the individual corrupted frames? I could export the clip as a sequence of frames, then repair the bad frames and re-import it. Rather a pain.

The other day, someone told me, that the JVC non-professional videocamera’s have a bad record when it comes to accuracy. My shooting was made with a GZ-HD5E, not the cheapest, with 3CCD technique.
Especially under poor light circumstances the shots are not good. Can any of you confirm, that this might be the basic reason for my problems? A two camera shooting of a concert is fine, but not if in postproduction everything goes wrong.

Thanks again,
Paul