[Scott Palmer]

Update: I did some more sleuthing, and I think I’m a victim of the 4GB file size limitation that I’m just now learning about. Seems that the HM100u didn’t correctly split a long continuous shots into multiple files.

For the benefit of others who stumble here with the same issue, here are the details.

Recall that the clip in question is part two of a very long shot. Put simply, it’s kinda like one long shot that the camera broke up into parts and stored as multiple clips for more manageable file sizes. When I review today’s footage in the camera, i only have three “scenes” to choose from. The first two scenes, being very long continuous shots, are broken up into subparts. So I have a total of five .mov files that can be described as 1a, 1b, 2a, 2b, and 3. It’s file 1b that is misbehaving – the second half of my first long shot.

I reviewed .mov file 1a on my computer in Quicktime. The file size was 3.71 GB, it’s 13 minutes and 54 seconds long, and ends on a camera zoom. I reviewed scene 1 again in the camera, and it plays the whole thing just fine – scene 1 lasts an additional 7 or 8 minutes beyond that camera zoom. That 7 or 8 minutes is the second half of scene one, so it’s the second .mov file that the camera created after the first half of shot/scene 1 reached it’s maximum file size. That’s the .mov file that I describe in my original post as “corrupt”. It’s the one that won’t play.

So it looks like I have a situation where the camera split a shot into two clips, and failed to package up the second half in such a way that QT/FCP/Compressor/etc. knows what to do with it. It’s still there, I can watch it in the camera, I just can’t use it anywhere else.

Anyone have any additional suggestions?

Thanks,

-Scott