Avid editor says CORRUPT! Redrushes transcodes for me no problemo?

[Steffen Vala]

The post house says all of the files for cf cards formatted as A017 and A018 are corrupt, which I delivered with the rest of the footage on a backup firewire external hd. (the two cards have been formatted and reused since the shoot, fwiw.)

In terms of A017, I can see that the A017_C004 and C005 clip aren't opening in RedAlert and not transcoding to prores422 for the director to view at home, but c001, 2 and 3 all seem to play fine and the proxies play no problem.

The post house tells me whenever their software encounters this corrupt footage Avid crashes and that they can't take the time to pick through the files to see what is corrupt and what isn't. I know nothing about Avid, but I was able to go in and hand pick those few corrupt clips and work around to get the director her timecode baked .movs for home viewing. Granted we shot a lot, but it was only a 2 day shoot and I know that only the cf cards numbered 17 and 18 had some funky corrupt files coming off the camera. So I've told them to skip those two for now.

Are these guys being lazy by trying to batch transcode everything into Avid?

A better question is... What can I do to get them the few useable clips from those two cf cards that I have backed up on my DIT backup disk?

 

[Gunleik Groven]

You ask them what they need for offline (or online, if the whole project is finnished directly) and transcode either dnxhd files to their specifications + ale for each mov with RedRushes or dnxhd mxf's one by one with recine-x. Or Batch with RocketCine.

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[Steffen Vala]

Thank you Gunleik. I'll try this out. I have a basic question...what is the "ale" ...I've been seeing this more and more as I'm getting involved in the post flow.

Please explain or direct me to a link if you can.

I really appreciate the help.

 

[Gunleik Groven]

Thank you Gunleik. I'll try this out. I have a basic question...what is the "ale" ...I've been seeing this more and more as I'm getting involved in the post flow.

Please explain or direct me to a link if you can.

I really appreciate the help.

ALE is...
http://www.24p.com/ALE.htm

Basically the TC is not imported with the .mov's. You need the ALE to re-link to the original r3d's for online at a later stage.

In RedRushes, you just choose export ALE (or whatever, sittin' on a PC right now...) and text.ale files are created.

In MediaComposer, one imports the ALE and re-links to the dnxhd media. That way the TC follows the file.

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Basically
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from a non AVID user...

 

[MichaelP]

The ALE and steps are described in the Step by Step guide on www.avid.com/red

Thanks Gunleik -

Michael