Clipfinder Render Problems

[Zsolt Såndor]

I'm using Clipfinder 2.2.5 (although have same issue with 2.1.16) on a Macbook Pro 2.33ghz with the latest Quicktime, REDCODE, Red Alert installed.

When I try to render a clip in clipbrowser, it starts to render and seems to work fine, the new file appears in finder, however, when finished, the rendered file disappears and is nowhere to be found.

According to the system log it has something to do with Quicktime AviImporter.... Any ideas what this means and how to fix it?

Log files are as follows:

08/07/09 1:26:19 AM Clipfinder[3794] REDline reported the following error while trying to render '/Volumes/Nightswimming 3/DAY 4/DAY 4 ROLL 15 D1/A018_07041P/A018_07041P.RDM/A018_C009_07048G.RDC': (
"2009-07-08 01:26:19.220 REDline[3859:10b] Error loading /Library/QuickTime/AviImporter-r7 (ppc).component/Contents/MacOS/AviImporter: dlopen(/Library/QuickTime/AviImporter-r7 (ppc).component/Contents/MacOS/AviImporter, 262): no suitable image found. Did find:",
"\t/Library/QuickTime/AviImporter-r7 (ppc).component/Contents/MacOS/AviImporter: mach-o, but wrong architecture",
""
)

...and it keeps repeating this over and over and over....

HELP!!!

I love Clipfinder and would love to use it for rendering - especially since i've been getting bizarre results using Red Rushes.

Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

 

[Conrad Hunziker]

Are you using a intel computer? The error is talking about a wrong architecture, which means I believe you are on a PPC mac. All the red rendering material only works on intel.

If you are on an intel, is your system up to date? Use software update to make sure.

It would explain your weird Red Rushes results also.

 

[Zsolt Såndor]

Yes, on Intel (macbook pro's only come with intel chips), it's a Core 2 Duo 2.33Ghz, completely up-to-date, latest version of all system and video related software (and most everything else)

I also found it odd that the problem refers to the PPC component of AviImporter.
At a bit of a loss here...

Any other thoughts?

 

[Conrad Hunziker]

Sorry - Missed the MBP part of your post. I know from support of my own software that whenever I see ppc in the error message, the user is using the wrong arch. Perhaps try encoding to a different codec? How about removing the aviimporter plugin?

... Ill go back to supporting my own product now...

 

[Nick Shaw]

Try avoiding spaces and any other non-standard characters in your directory names.

 

[Hans-Georg Daun]

Towncat,

Did Nick's advice solve your problem ?
If not, please mail me so I can get this sorted out.

Cheers,
Hans

 

[Mohamed Kamel]

Actually i had the same same issues from before, even earlier builds. I just checked the "make sub directories" and that was my workaround.

 

[Zsolt Såndor]

Thanks for all the advice everyone.

Hans, I didn't get a chance to try Nick's advice as I simply removed the PPC element of Quicktime AviImporter - which fixed the problem.

However, rendering is INSANELY slow. It takes about 1-2 hours to render a 1 minute clip! And there is over 2 hours of raw footage to transcode to ProResHQ for editing. I simply gave up. Is there a way to speed this up?

When full res proxy to ProRes HQ in my FCP timeline, it only takes about 5 mins per 1 minute clip. Why is Clipfinder so much more sluggish?

 

[Uli Plank]

Clipfinder is working much faster for me than L&T. Did you accidentially use a full debayer? That would be very slow.

FCP is always using half! And check if you are using standard or high quality in FCP to compare. I'd recommend half high for finishing.

 

[Hans-Georg Daun]

Towncat

I cannot respond to your private mail, it seems you have blocked receiving mail.
You can mail me at the address given in Clipfinder's help pages (CMD-?).

Cheers,
Hans