Tim Jones
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It turned out to be even simpler than that – Copy and Paste. I was determined to find a “Cuplicate” option and the obvious totally escaped me.
Tim
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Tim Jones
CTO – TOLIS Group, Inc.
https://www.productionbackup.com
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Corollary to that axiom – even if it’s not your audio, it’s your audio!
What a strange trip this has been.
Tim
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Tim Jones
CTO – TOLIS Group, Inc.
https://www.productionbackup.com
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We have finally uncovered what was causing the issue in the m2ts files that we received and whyy they were giving FCP X fits on import – the audio was encoded as AAC instead of the AC-3 format as defined by the standard (thanks to Colin at Divergent Media). To make things work, FCP X was converting the AAC audio to AC-3 for proper container contents and that’s what was putting the system in bog-mode.
I’ve asked the content creator to change the audio type to AC-3 for future clips.
Tim
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Tim Jones
CTO – TOLIS Group, Inc.
https://www.productionbackup.com
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When our BRU Server and the DAX BA plugin are combined with CatDV, you get the same functionality – everything (archival, purging, and retrieval) is managed right from within the CatDV app and the operators don’t need to know anything about the tape backup side of the equation.
Tim
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Tim Jones
CTO – TOLIS Group, Inc.
https://www.productionbackup.com
BRU … because it’s the RESTORE that matters! -
Unfortunately, because the Cache-A drives are dedicated to their hardware and management, you will need to use a Cache-A compatible solution to use your existing hardware investment. The CatDV Pro update should allow you to manage the clip catalog much more directly, but I don’t believe it will allow you to do so after the fact (meaning that the archival must have been performed via CatDV). I don’t know of a way within CatDV to import and manage existing archived media.
Maybe check on the CatDV forum for a method for importing your existing tapes.
BTW – for BRU PE users, BRU PE will import the table of contents from LTFS tapes and allow you to search them without mounting the tapes to determine what they contain.
Tim
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Tim Jones
CTO – TOLIS Group, Inc.
https://www.productionbackup.com
BRU … because it’s the RESTORE that matters! -
I suspect that this is one of those “but, when it doesn’t” moments :).
Tim
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Tim Jones
CTO – TOLIS Group, Inc.
https://www.productionbackup.com
BRU … because it’s the RESTORE that matters! -
Nope:
/Volumes/ArGest SSD 3/.DS_Store
/Volumes/ArGest SSD 3/.DocumentRevisions-V100
/Volumes/ArGest SSD 3/.com.apple.timemachine.donotpresent
/Volumes/ArGest SSD 3/.fseventsd
/Volumes/ArGest SSD 3/AVCHD Rewrap Test.fcpbundle
/Volumes/ArGest SSD 3/Adobe CC Sync
/Volumes/ArGest SSD 3/Avid MediaFiles
/Volumes/ArGest SSD 3/Avid Projects
/Volumes/ArGest SSD 3/Creative Ingest
/Volumes/ArGest SSD 3/GoPro
/Volumes/ArGest SSD 3/blkmagic
The m2ts files are in the folder named “Creative Ingest” and there’s nothing else in the folder.Tim
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Tim Jones
CTO – TOLIS Group, Inc.
https://www.productionbackup.com
BRU … because it’s the RESTORE that matters! -
Thanks, Jeremy,
If that’s what I should be seeing, then it is definitely something at the source that is occurring to cause this. I just have a folder full of .M2TS and .INF files (as well as a few .THM’s that seem to not be related to any of the included clips).
I’ll go back to the source and ask about their workflow.
In the meantime, ClipWrap rescued things and I’m able to continue editing.
Tim
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Tim Jones
CTO – TOLIS Group, Inc.
https://www.productionbackup.com
BRU … because it’s the RESTORE that matters! -
I know that – I just wanted to make sure that no one grasped the straw as a potential excuse :).
Tim
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Tim Jones
CTO – TOLIS Group, Inc.
https://www.productionbackup.com
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If I double click one of the M2TS files, I get the “Converting File” message dialog and then the file opens once the conversion is completed.
This takes longer than the rewrap. I can rewrap the entire collection of 42 clips in less time than it took QT to convert two of the shorter clips.
Again, I know that FCP X / QT can deal with AVCHD files, it’s just that there seems to be a time cost to getting the files ready for actual use that rewrapping resolves.
As an aside, if I import these same files into Vegas Pro 13, they drop right in with no delays (I checked that because a Sony rep said that Vegas handles AVCHD natively and to double check the validity of the files in the Vegas demo).
Tim
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Tim Jones
CTO – TOLIS Group, Inc.
https://www.productionbackup.com
BRU … because it’s the RESTORE that matters!