Capture Clip Data Retention Problem

During the logging/capturing process I have been entering information into the various Clip Data fields, such as Description, Scene, and Log Note. Once the clips have been logged, the Clip Data info. entered does appear in the Project Panel next to the clip icon. However, when I start a new PProCS4 session, and retrieve those same clips...the Clip Data that I had entered does not appear next to the clips in the Project Panel?!? Does this have to do with a Metadata issue? Anyhelp ASAP would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

Click on the .Mac tab at the top of this window. Then log in OR if it shows your information, click on "Account" in the upper left. After you log in, right beside Data Transfer/month you'll see the amount of data transfer bandwidth you have and to the right of that will be "Details". Clicking that will take you to a page that shows how much you've used for the month. If, in less than two weeks, you go over HALF of your allotment, (if your bandwidth is 10 GB, that'd be 5 GB) then your site is shut down until you a) raise your bandwidth limit by buying more space or b) wait until the two weeks are completely up and your account will be reset to use another 5 gigs for the last two weeks of the month.
Just keep an eye on this number and you'll have an idea of how close you are to being shut down (I've never gone over 4 gigs for an entire month).

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Problems capturing clips

I using the latest version of FCP with a Blackmagic card. Everything has been working fine until today. I'm having problems capturing clips. I'll start Log & Capture, grab a clip, the window displays it is capturing it, and then when I look at the logging bin, my clip is not there. But if I look in the capture scratch folder, the clip is there.
Now, if I try to import that or any other clip, FCP gives me an error message. Does anyone know what could be wrong? I would appreciate your help.

Probably a Black Magic issue so be prepared to talk to them.
To debug this, you have to take the Black Magic stuff out of the equation to determine if FCP is at fault. If you have any DV device, try to capture from it.
bogiesan

Vado central changes clip dates to transfer time

vado central changes clip dates to transfer time When vado central transfers movies from vado hd onto my imac, each clip gets the date of the transfer, not the date the movie was taken. I have the latest vado central for macs (..0f6). I've tried both "Transfer" and "iMovie" download methods from vado central. When I use "Transfer", the file in the Finder has the download time, and when I use "iMovie" the date in imovie (09) is also the download time.
If I open up the vado hd dri've in the Finder and look at the file on the device, it has the correct time and date, when the movie was taken. If I drag the file from the dri've onto the desktop myself, the original, correct time and date is preserved.
So, it's vado central that is rewriting the time and date on each clip when it transfers it onto the computer.
Is this just me? Or just macs? I haven't seen other complaints about this. I have the big and unhappy job ahead of me to guess and fix a bunch of dates.

Thanks for your help. My original inquiry did not contain enough detail, so I have added more as follows:
We are not changing any file heirarchy structure or file names. I should have pointed out that we are using an Avid ISIS system for shared storage and all our project files and capture scratch files go there. We always use Log and Transfer to import AVCHD files.
"Macrosextended" format is a new one on me. I couldn't find anything about it in Final Cut help, System Settings, or User Preferences; or on the internet. We set the Scratch Disk destination for all our Final Cut systems to the ISIS Workspace we named "Project_Files" on the ISIS 5000.
We normally use Sony XDCAM EX cameras and have had no problems with their files. The AVCHD camera we use in some situations is a Sony HXR-MC50U.

Scene Detect 8 + 15 extra frames on every captured clip

When capturing HDV in CS5, using Scene Detect creates extra frames.
Imagine clip #1 when it captures its footage, instead of stopping at the end of the clip, it continues for another 15 frames into Clip #2 and tacks this on to the end of Clip #1.
It then starts to capture Clip #2 but first it rolls back (this is done by Scene Detect electronically. The tape does not actually roll back) into Clip #1 and starts the capture 8 frames back into Clip #1 before it continues capturing the footage and proceeds to repeat the 15 extra frames capture from Clip #3. Everything is repeated throught Clip #3, Clip #4, etc. until the end of the tape.
These things did not happen in CS3. This is a CS5 problem.
Essentially each clip starts with 8 frames of the previous clip and ends with 15 frames of the next clip. The extra frames contain both video and audio in perfect sync.
When capturing, I am making no adjustments on the frames control which is what the Adobe Service suspected. I ran a capture with them on line demonstrating the problem.
Although I can still edit with this footage, using scene detect, with 280 clips per hour tape, it is not pleasant removing 8 frames from the front and 15 frames from the back of each of the 280 clips.
Is there a solution to this problem or perhaps a quick-automatic way of removing the frames from each of the 280 clips?
I currently edit on an MSI GT660R laptop
•     Intel® Core™ i7-740QM Processor
•     Genuine Windows® 7 Home Premium 64bit
•     15.6" TFT-LCD Display (LED Backlight)
•     NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 285M 3D Discrete Graphics Card (DDR3 1GB VRAM)
•     6GB (2GB x 3) DDR3 1066 MHz System Memory
•     1TB (500x2) 7200RPM Hard Drive
•     802.11 b/g/ n Wireless LAN with Bluetooth
•     Dynaudio Premium Sound Speakers
•     Dual SATA Hard Drive with Raid 0
•     Accelerated CPU+ GPU performance with MSI TDE Technology
•     MSI Cooler Boost Technology
•     USB 3.0 for high speed data transfer
•     Blu-Ray Optical Drive
•     Built-in 720p HD webcam
•     HDMI (High-Definition Multimedia Interface) output
I want my CS3 back.

Is this what you wanted?
Wayne
Tried to do a direct reply but the email just bounced.

Bottom line - no way for 08 to keep proper clip dates?

Right? I just need a definite "no" so I can download iMovie HD and install FinalCutExpress and start using these instead. Same clips in HD keep the recorded date...open project in 08, all clips have imported date. Absolutely insane. This has GOT to be a serious bug. Why on earth would Apple engineers think it's good wipe out all the date info? When would that ever be good?
So, does anyone know for certain there's no way to keep the clip date? I can not re-import off of tape. The tapes were imported in iMovie HD (06).

wow, what an incredible time waster that would be! If one project has 40-50 clips, I'm supposed to get info on each one, write down the date, open another probram or whatnot, manually change it, then go into 08?
Wow! What an incredible waste of time capturing/importing files into one application and then re-writing the files to a second application that creates a totally new file container with totally new data written by a totally different set of routines.
All kidding aside, I believe the original import/capture module reads the date-time group from the device media and uses it as the "file creation" date for the digital file written to your hard drive during capture. Unfortunately, the finder file writing routines are programmed to look at the current system time and use that as the "file creation date" any time you duplicate or copy a file. Thus, any attempt to import your files via the finder will run into this same problem. I see only two possibilities and I don't know if either will work.
1) The first would be to create some sort of XML that would allow direct access of the original file in its original container from iMovie '08. I can't think of a method of doing this compatible with iMovie '08.
2) The other would be to try a "pseudo" import. If you have the originally captured files still in the original project (i.e., they are not copies or duplications AND you have an active "iMovie Events" folder or can create one on the same volume of the same hard drive as the original iMovie '06 project package, then you might try the following:
a) Close iMovie '08
b) Create a named event folder within the "iMovie Events" folder on the same volume of the same drive as your original iMovie '06 project package
c) With only your originally imported clips in the "bin" or the timeline (i.e., no "rendered" clips created), open the original iMovie '06 project package
d) Open the "Media" folder
e) "Drag 'n Drop" all files from the now open "Media" folder to the new named event folder you just created
f) When done, open iMovie '08, sit back, and be prepared to wait
Hopefully, as iMovie '08 performs its initialization scan, it will locate your "pseudo" imported files and begin to generate thumbnails as though the the application had just captured/imported them from a camcorder. Be advised that this could take some time depending on the volume of data moved. Since the files were never actually copied but their pointers simply rearranged within the hard drive Volume Table of Contents, the file containers are not modified and still contain their original file creation Date/Time information which I hope includes whatever you want/need. If all goes well, the thumbnails will show up in your iMovie '08 "Events" window properly arranged in date-time sequence with the named event now showing under the proper calendar year in the Event Library List.

DVD camcorder (VIDEO_TS) - preserve clip date and time

I had asked this question on the forums a long time ago but iMovie did not seem to be supporting it reliably at the time. But since some time has passed, I wanted to check if iMovie '09 can import clips from a mini DVD (those used in camcorders to capture video directly on to DVD media) AND preserve the clip's date and time.
What I see is that the first clip gets some date and time related to the event's date and time (perhaps the start time of the first clip?) but all the other clips which are imported, get timestamps of 1 second after that first clip's timestamp.
These are all my home videos and in order to keep each clip short, I have had the habit of pausing after about a minute or two, resulting in MANY clips over MANY DVD's, so manually updating date and time is absolutely the last resort.
The DVD player can see the clip date and time correctly, and so could the camcorder (I have since sold the darn thing!) so I know that information exists somewhere in the DVD, but it seems like iMovie is unable to "see" it.
Any help would be appreciated, including programmability hints.

Thank you for your post. I figured out why iMovie was assigning today's date to everything that I imported. It turns out that many of my video files did not have a real "created" date--some had no date at all and some had Wednesday, December, 1967 or 9 (I think). iMovie defaulted today's date in both of these situations. I took your advice and ot A Better Finder Attribute and easily converted all of the files using the option to copy the "modified date" into the "created date" attribute. Now everything imports correctly into iMovie.

Vendor Master Data LSMW problem

Hi,
I have vendor master data in XLS file. Created project in LSMW with standard batch input object 004 (Vendor Master Data), Method (0001 standard) and Program name RFBIKR00.
Other constant data:
BLF00-TCODE = 'XK01'
BLF00-LIFNR = 'FOX1220' ... 'FOX1221' etc
BLF00-BUKRS = '3800'
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BLF00-KTOKK = "LIEF'
other all data like (Bank detail, purchasing data, accounting data, dunning data) are coming from that single XLS file.
Problem while creating Batch Input Session: <b>"Vendor FOX1221: data retention at plant level not allowed"</b>
Why??? Reading and converting data is fine.. but still problem terminates the BDC.
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Thanks,
Chetan Shah

Hey it is solved, just making WERKR (Data retaintion at Plant Level) = 'X'
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Blue screen of death, surprise restarts, and some captured clips distorted, with blocky artifacts!

Hello,
I've been using my set-up (Premiere Pro 2.0* with Cineform AspectHD) successfully for years, to capture and edit footage. But just recently, my computer has given me the blue screen of death after capturing for about 5-10 minutes or caused my computer to restart in the middle of capturing. I've also noticed that the resulting captured clips are, in some places, distorted and contain blocky artifacts. It isn't a problem with the tape because the footage plays just fine on the camera's preview monitor. I tried re-installing Premiere Pro 2.0 and Cineform AspectHD, but the problem persisted after a successful, but brief capture session (the resulting clips were still distorted and contained blocky artifacts). I have no idea what the problem is! One solution I attempted was to capture on another computer in my house, using the same software. Although I didn't get the blue screen of death or a surprise restart, the captured clips were still distorted and contained blocky artifacts in some spots. Another option I tried, with the second computer, was deselecting the Scene Detect option in the capture dialogue box. As a result, the captured clips are free of distortion and blocky artifacts, but the problem is that the captured clips are too big and very difficult to manage (I shoot a lot because I'm a filmmaker and I'm in the middle of a big project). Why is this happening?!
Any help with this problem would be greatly appreciated!
*I'd use a later version of Premiere, but I spent a lot of money on Cineform AspectHD and the version of Cineform I have only works with Premiere Pro 2.0.

I agree with John T. BSOD's are most often caused hardware issues, such as overheating of a component, or a failing, or undersized PSU.
Also, general system drivers can cause failure. Often, those are outlined (though maybe not in really adequate detail) in the Event Viewer's log. In that article, that John T. linked to, there is another link to "Finding Clues." It goes into more detail on using Event Viewer to explore warning, or error messages. If your testing of your system's components and heat, do not yield a weak link, see that one (no pun intended). It is in Reply # 3.
Good luck,
Hunt

Editable ALV, how to capture changed data

Hi All,
I have created an editable ALV. User can make some changes in the displayed record and press "Submit" button (custom button on application toolbar), the program should validate the data and write the file on application server if validations are successful otherwise controls stay on the same screen.
I am handling this validation and writing file part in PAI of the screen.
Problem: The program is capturing the data when user changes it for the first, but program is failing to capture the subsequent changes (user makes after the validation fails). Program processes always the first time changed data only. Please help me in getting this problem resolved.
Step1 : Program shows output.
Step2: User changes Company Code.
Step3: User clicks on Submit Button.
Step3.1: Program reads the new data and performs validation.
Step3.2: New Company code is not valid, error displayed.
Step4: User changes the company code again, presses submit button.
Goto step 3.1 -> Here program does not read the new data, rather first time changes company code is again read and validated, and program shows the same error again, which is not a desired result

Hi Ashish,
you need a method HANDLE_DATA_CHANGED as handler for grid event DATA_CHANGED.
Use
LOOP AT er_data_changed->mt_mod_cells ASSIGNING <mod>.
to check all changed data. In this event, add the error messages to ER_DATA_CHANGED object.
set all required handlers, i.e.
SET HANDLER:
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      handle_data_changed_finished FOR ro_grid,
      handle_toolbar_set           FOR ro_grid,
      handle_user_command          FOR ro_grid,
      handle_hotspot_click         FOR ro_grid,
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      handle_f1                    FOR ro_grid.
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Clemens

TS3391 iMovie 11 is not working. I try to open it and it says it is generating thumbnails for one of my previous projects. All the commands are gray. I have to force it to quit. I just want to capture clips to start a new project.

iMovie 11 is not working. I try to open it and it says it is generating thumbnails for one of my previous projects. All the commands are gray. I have to force it to quit. I just want to capture clips to start a new project. I googled the problem and there were discussions about deleting files in various folders and renaming clip extensions. I don't like the solutions I saw there and I am not sure they will work.

Nobody replied so I called Apple. They seemed to think they could fix the problem but I had to agree to pay about $20 first. I told them to put it down as a complaint. I only want to use the software I bought. I can't see that it is my fault it is malfunctioning. I guess I will have to pay. It doesn't seem right.

Captured clips are playing back at least TWICE as fast

Hey all- I am capturing HD footage from a JVC Pro HD camera - footage shot at 24P. Everything seems fine with the capture (except for the fact that there is no device control - only capture now), but when I play back the captured clips I hear the audio playing at normal speed but the video is playing back at leat at twice the speed - all actors are in FAST motion. I hear the crew and director speaking, getting ready to shoot as I watch the scene start and speed through and end right as the clip ends.
Any ideas? Is it a setting on the OUTPUT for the camera?
Thanks for any help.
Cayce

Neither Final Cut Express nor Final Cut Pro support
720p24 material. You need a product like HDVxDV to
bring it in.
Tom-
Thanks for getting back to me last night. You seem to be a master in these parts. I am new here. I am really a director and writer but through my production company I have done a number of things in FCP over the years, always without any problems. That is until the introduction of HD and 24p at which time I sort of started saying to our amazing editor "whatver you say" and clouding over with confusion. After I got your message I went and got FCP 5 from the Apple store in an attempt to keep my friend, whose short we were trying to edit, from crying. Once installed and running we had the same issue as we had in FCE HD - the video - in terms of quality - was captured perfectly, but the clips would play back at almost twice the speed that they should have. I tried virtually every easy set-up that pertained to HD and nothing worked. On a few of them I could get an actual Log and Capture window to come up but when I went to play the material via device control there was no image, althoug I could see TC running. A friend suggested that you have to take the captured HD 24p clip and bring it into the timeline and render it for it to work. Is that true? I tried it to no avail. So, he shot on JVC GY-HD 100 at 24p. I now have FCP 5 HD and am considering buying LUMIERE software that purports to streamline this very issue. Any thoughts or suggestions you may have for me would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks so much,
M Cayce Lindner

Captured Clips Not in Browser

Am having a problem capturing video. The clips exist in the Capture Scratch folder but they have never made it to the project browser window.
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Capturing is a problem, yet when I played the QT clips in the Capture Scratch folder they seem OK.
Anyone have an idea about what is (isn’t) going on? Maybe these clips were never captured at all. So why are they in the folder?

G'Day Lee.
If they are on the Scratch Disc and play correctly then the capture side of things is OK.
The only thing I can think of is that you may have had more than one Sequence open at the time and the captured clips in question have been associted with the Browser Folder that was the active capture bin.
Always look for a little clapper board icon at the top left of the Browser. It's into this Folder/Bin all captures appear. If so:
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Al

Creating a View with "clipped" data

Hi all,
I'm wondering if someone might know if it's possible to have clipped data in a view without clipping the original data that the view is drawing from.
The problem we have is that we have a full dataset that we need to keep in a complete state (as a table in Oracle). We want to be able to create a View that will display a subset of data from this table, however, some of the objects in the full dataset cross a boundary and for these objects, we want the View to only show the part of the object within that boundary.
I know we can clip the original layer but we ideally need to keep that layer untouched and do the clipping on-the-fly in the View. Is this possible?
Thanks for any help you can give,
Cheers, Paul

Do you want to:
create view my_clip
as
select a.id,
a.attribute,
mdsys.sdo_intersection(a.geometry,b.geometry,0.005) as geometry
from mycliparea b,
mytable a
where sdo_anyinteract(a.geometry,b.geometry) = 'TRUE'
Now this will work but to get performance you will have to do one of two things:
1. Create a function based index. See doco or other postings in this forum for examples
of how to do this.
2. Change the view from an ordinary view to a materialized view. And then create
a normal spatial index on the computed shape. (I recommend the use of
these as against ordinary views.)
However, Bryan is right, the problem with SDO_INTERSECTION is that it can return:
1. Polygons;
2. Lines;
3. Points;
4. Compound objects containing one or more of the above.
If you want polygons only, then you need to extract them.
<selfpromtion>
I have written a set of extraction functions that do this which are available for free.
Contact me at "spatialdbadvisor at netspace dot net dot au" or "simon at spatialdbadvisor dot com"
</selfpromotion>
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create view my_clip
as
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a.attribute,
geom.ExtractPolygon(
mdsys.sdo_intersection(a.geometry,b.geometry,0.005))
as geometry
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where sdo_anyinteract(a.geometry,b.geometry) = 'TRUE'
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S

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Can anybody provide the standard FI-CO data retention period I mean for how long data from the following table has to be retained:
BKPF, BSAD, BSAK, BSAS, BSIS
Best business practice.
Thanks in advance
Joseph

Hi,
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Markus

Clip date won't work

I'm having intermittent luck at using the Adjust Clip Date and Time command. I imported some analog tapes so the default date given is today's date. On some of these events, when I select all the clips in the Event and choose Adjust Clip Date and change it, say, to 1989, it moves the event down into the 1989 folder. But I do the very same thing, selecting all the clips by using command-A and visually verifying that all the clips are indeed selected, then trying to adjust the date, it indeed changes the date to the correct year, but it doesn't move it out of the 2010 folder. I've tried changing to different years (1989, 1990, 1991, etc0 but it still won't move the event to the correct folder. Other events move just fine. I tried moving the Event manually by dragging it to the correct folder but it won't scroll down to the correct folder. Any thoughts?

This is a followup to my question above. I called Apple Tech Support and supposedly talked to an iMovie expert. He said that some clips have metadata and some don't. I told him that the clips that wouldn't move to the proper year folder were on the very same videotape that other clips were taken from that moved to the proper year folder. All he could say was that some clips have metadata and some don't.
I can't imagine an analog tape having metadata but that's what he seemed to be saying. I also asked if there was a way I could edit some of the movie data files to fix it and he said no. When I opened that data file in TextEdit, there was a lot of gobbledy-good but also some dates that said 2010. But he said changing those to the proper year wouldn't solve the problem and might make the movie unviewable.
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