Just need to vent (humorous read)
Many will find this humorous but I need to tell someone whats on my mind and since I am staring at my screen waiting for replies to my recent "M2T files" post it looks like its going to be you guys. Deciding this year to upgrade to an HD camera and get a little more serious with my videography has led to a lot of frustration and hair pulling. I find that I am continuously asking myself "why cant it just work"? I purchased a new Z5U and was excited at first, then I realized I had no way to view my footage unless I purchased a cheap HD camera or spent thousands on a deck. After some research I decided to go wit an mrc1 recording unit ($900.00). Also had to purchase CF cards ($260.00). And a reader ($60.00). Finally I can playback some of my footage...............Yeah right, not quite. My Mac would not recognize the format (M2T) so I had to download a separate player. I then purchased FCP ($1070.00) Oh this will be simple I thought I'll just import the files into FCP and start editing............ again Yeah right. FCP will not recognize the format and it looks as if now I am looking at purchasing a program to reformat my clips ($45-$100.00). I feel as if Im recording with a camera and capture method from a different planet or something. I mean Im new to this and all but capturing to a CF card is pretty common right? WHY in the world cant I just import to FCP? It seems to me as if it would be cheaper to send my video to a production studio and just tell them what i want! I wanted to get more serious but I didnt want an entire studio. Thanks for listening. ;0)
You might feel that some of this stuff is "quite common." But in the editing cosmos these are all just blips at the end of the timeline. We've been doing a lot of other things for a lot of years (post production years are like dog years: one feels like seven). It wasn't that long ago that it was believed that digital photography was never expected to be good enough to print. Digital video was a quasi digital recording of an analog signal (and still cost a gazillion $$$); And Avid tried to sell me a "uncompressed" SD system that they couldn't even get to start up in their corporate offices in Tewksbury.
(+you kids get off my lawn!+)
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Error: File just captured could not be read and was deleted after capture.
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It seemed to be going well last night while recording but as soon as I pressed 'Esc' to end the capture I got an error message saying (not exactly in these words) : Error: The file just captured could not be read.
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The person being interviewed was absolutely furious and said he would not do the interview again. So I'm up against the wall here, and need to recover the files.
What's more, the problem still persists. When I try capturing again, as soon as I stop the same error occurs. So now my FCP is not capturing anymore
I tried running Data Rescue 3.1 and found the recording in deleted files, but:
1. the recording is in several parts (not sure if it's all there, but probably most of it)
2. Data Rescue 3 interprets the files as .dv files, as opposed to .mov files as all my other recorded material.
3. THERE IS NO AUDIO IN THE .DV FILES, which pretty much nullifies the file recovery altogether.
I tried googling this error, but it did not help much:
1. None of the people were capturing the same way I do (most were capturing from tape, none straight through KONA SDI input)
2. There was no solution to prevent the error.
3. No solution to recover the files either.
I must say, this experience really taught me the essence of Murphy's law: 'Anything that can go wrong, will go wrong at the worst possible moment'
Any suggestions as to the reasons for this?
Any suggestions as to how the files can be recovered?Good news!
I beleive I have found the cause and solution. At least now I am able to reproduce the problem at will and therefore, hopefully prevent it.
I discovered that there is nothing wrong with my AJA KONA setup, as I was able to capture with both QuickTime movie capture and Adobe Premier just fine. But every time I try capturing in FCP I get unreadable capture files (since 2 days ago).
Trying all possible capture settings, capture presets or easy setups did nothing. (although capturing thru Firewire still works every time).
I was about to give up when I noticed that where I usually have my video scopes window running, for convenience sake, under it the Voiceover utility was running.
So here is the deal: Usually when you try and capture with the Voiceover utility running, you can't. FCP wont allow you to capture, it will return an error message saying: 'Log and capture can not be opened while Voice Over is running. Please close Voice Over and try again.' As it turns out, this warning is probably for a good reason.
BUT...
If you shut down FCP with Voice Over running and start it up again THEN you CAN run Log and Capture at the same time... everything looks OK, until you stop the recordin, then you get an error message saying your recording is screwed.
I tried this over and over again, every time it behaves the same way. Shutting down with VO util>starting up again>recordings get screwed .. close VO utility>back to normal operation.
I'm not sure if it was the VO utility the last time this happened (few weeks back), but it might very well be. I might not have noticed that the VO utility was running as it was hidden behind the videoscopes and there are no warnings when running Log and Capture if you start up FCP with VO utility still running.
My educated guess to what is going on is that the VO utility is taking up priority over the sound inputs and by doing so making the audio of the capture unreadable. This theory is supported by the fact that when my data recovering experts found the recordings on the HD, there was no audio on the files, but the video was intact.
The only reason setting up the AJA drivers helped in the past was probably because that flushed the FCP settings and in doing so closed the VO utility window. How very ironic
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cheers!
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Model Name: iMac
Model Identifier: iMac12,1
Processor Name: Intel Core i5
I reset my apple ID password here on the website, but my computer isn't recognizing my new password. what should I do? I just need to update my adobe flash player but it keeps asking me for my password but won't take my new password I just updated."If you've forgotten the Apple ID password how did you log in to make the last post?"
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As far as the link you provided, I already looked to that for help earlier. It states:
Choose Apple menu > System Preferences, click Users & Groups, click the lock to unlock it, then provide an administrator name and password. Select a user, then click Reset Password.
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Does my mac just need a new hard drive?
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also if its important its an iMac 20" 2007
i dont know what the specs are as i cant remember and the pc cant turn on to lookZap the PRAM and Reset the SMC, then try again.
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What I have tried so far is I had my MAC search for update’s and it said that I should update to (ITunes version 10 . 6 . 3 ) So I asked it to do the update but after 2hrs of waiting for it to download/update it then puts up a message saying the following- (In order to continue installation, please close the following application: ITunes).
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Hi,
I too bought my Macbook Pro in the US and I live in the UK (its so much cheaper in the US! No 20% VAT!)
The power adapter does work on UK 230v power. You can also get a three pin extension lead (like the 2 pin US one that came with the MBP) for about £3 with free delivery from Amazon UK.
Another tip, whne you are back in the UK, and you are switching from a PC to a Mac, get in touch with your local Apple Shop who run one to one free courses on how to use your MBP.
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== Issue
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I have another kind of problem with Firefox
== Description
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I have various formatting issues:
a. When I open a msg from my web browser (Cablevision), the font is sooo small I need a magnifier to read it. How can I set the font to a size I can easily read?
b. When I forward msgs, the text gets all distorted and I need to clean it up (some symbols, lots of spaces between words). How can this be fixed?
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== This happened
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Every time Firefox opened
== Ever since I started using Firefox (a few months ago)
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'''Troubleshooting information'''
I didn't find any results
== Firefox version
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3.6.3
== Operating system
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Windows 7
== User Agent
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Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.3) Gecko/20100401 Firefox/3.6.3
== Plugins installed
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emsavage1127 wrote:
Should I go complaining to Apple or do I just need different software?
emsavage1127 wrote:
I really don't feel like taking my computer all the way to the apple store to wait there for 5 hours to hear that I need to call someone blah blah blah.
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I am looking for an app that can unmute my iphone after a preset time, eg 1 or 2 hours. Does anybody know an app with this feature?? The apps I have found are linked to a calendar or a place, I just need the timer function..
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Hello everybody,
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