[Tim Young]

Awesome Thank you. That was hurting my brain.

[Tim Young]

Wow thank you!!!! wow i was scared.

[Tim Young]

We were not able to recover the file and had to go back to the most recent autosave file that wasn’t corrupted. Annoying to say the least. We had been exporting quick times as we were finishing sequences so we did have a QT file without time code which allowed us to recover only losing a day of work. In the future we will export time code with the QT file.

Thanks for all help/suggestions!

[Tim Young]

First of all thanks for your time.

Have you ever exported XML files for backups or have ever exported quick time with original time code for backups?

We have three sources of backup files and they are all corrupt. I completely understand what you are saying in that the file had to be corrupt ahead of time…it’s just weird because we have gone back 10 autosaves and they are all corrupt, but the one before that is good. So at the time when the file became corrupt, we were currently working on it without knowing it was corrupt? This raises the question, assuming all the projects we work on will eventually be corrupted how then are we to save so we can restore them? (This is the only project that this has happened out of 100’s of project files but now we have to assume the worst every time)

We will run a disk utility now to see if its any of the drives. If you have any other ideas/suggestions we’d appreciate it.

Again thank you!

[Tim Young]

Thanks for all of the feedback. This has been an ongoing discussion here for us and the advice has been very helpful.

Tim

[Tim Young]

I understand how to physically move audio clips around. I don’t understand the logistics of the placement of the waveform as explained in the previous question. Do I match the waveform to a frame, or do I match the waveform to a spot on the time-line between the two frames where the clapper would have hit?

[Tim Young]

It is 444 footage, but we are editing in 442. The weird thing is that we looked at all possibilities last night, and when they were all exasperated we opened the project again and the problem was gone. I don’t know if this is going to happen again? Sooooo weird.

[Tim Young]

Ok, so I am encountering the same problem. I am working off of my laptop next to my boss on his editing bay. I am working ahead merging clips and syncing audio, but when I transfer the projects to him we are seeing this color changing problem.

When he does it on his station this problem does not exist, but when the project comes through my station the color problem is there. Like I said, it only happens if he opens the project after I save it.

Is there anything we can do? And why is this happening on my computer but not his? Has FCP updates solved this problem? If so, why doesn’t his station correct the problem.

Thank you.