Sarah Nelson
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Hi all. I am new here but I hit a confusing problem so any help would be appreciated. It's kind of long, so bear with me...
I am producing an industrial video. I shot it using a Red, build #12, in a combination of 2k and 4k. I am processing it using Mac Pros quad, 2.66 GHz. Obviously, I am using RedCine, and I did watch the available tutorials. I am exporting my footage to Quicktime Apple ProRes 422(HQ) High Quality for use in FCP.
Initially I set up a project containing a few clips from one compact flash card. I exported them and they all worked just fine. However, I have a lot of footage and wanted to process more than five clips at a time, so I created a project containing the entirety of a compact flash card - 21 clips in all. Here is where the fun begins: The first 18 clips went through perfectly, but the last three videos were comprised of one frame each, lasting the duration of the original clip. So the last three clips in my export bin were all the same frame, different durations, but all the same visually. Keep in mind these were all from the same project and had the same settings so nothing changed from the 18th to the 19th clip.
I created a project that was small again, 8 clips from the same card, and every one went through successfully. I created another small project, 11 shots from the same chip, and the first 7 went through successfully, the last four were videos comprised of the same frame.
I created another project, this one as large as I could make it (36 clips) to leave processing overnight. It was comprised of the data from several different chips. Only 7 went through successfully, and 29 were all comprised of a single frame, again different durations but every clip the exact same frame. It froze on the first chip's last shot and then every single one of the second chip was the same frame.
I had also set my other MacPro exporting footage overnight, 34 clips from two compact cards. The first 14 shots, the first chip, went through successfully. The second chip, 20 shots, were all identical, mono-frame videos.
So far I have had two projects fail on a compact flash card break, but two projects also failed within no compact card change present. So while a compact card break may be correlated, I do not think it's the root problem and it may be entirely coincidental. I don't know.
So I created another project, this time to test what would make it fail. I put 5 clips, 3 from one flash card, two from another. The first three were 2k, the other two were 4k. I gave it the same export settings as my previous projects, and every one of these clips exported properly. So I know RedCine can handle shots from multiple cards and of multiple data sizes within the same project.
So far the only thing I can think of is that it's a buffer or project size issue, but I am running computers that should be able to handle that and the RedCine projects have slots to take upwords of 30 clips, so it doesn't make sense that projects of 11 shots within the same compact card would fail. I understand it's a beta program and I LOVE the interface and tools it provides, so I am hoping to find a work-around or figure out if it's user error so I can get my project working. Thanks!!
I am producing an industrial video. I shot it using a Red, build #12, in a combination of 2k and 4k. I am processing it using Mac Pros quad, 2.66 GHz. Obviously, I am using RedCine, and I did watch the available tutorials. I am exporting my footage to Quicktime Apple ProRes 422(HQ) High Quality for use in FCP.
Initially I set up a project containing a few clips from one compact flash card. I exported them and they all worked just fine. However, I have a lot of footage and wanted to process more than five clips at a time, so I created a project containing the entirety of a compact flash card - 21 clips in all. Here is where the fun begins: The first 18 clips went through perfectly, but the last three videos were comprised of one frame each, lasting the duration of the original clip. So the last three clips in my export bin were all the same frame, different durations, but all the same visually. Keep in mind these were all from the same project and had the same settings so nothing changed from the 18th to the 19th clip.
I created a project that was small again, 8 clips from the same card, and every one went through successfully. I created another small project, 11 shots from the same chip, and the first 7 went through successfully, the last four were videos comprised of the same frame.
I created another project, this one as large as I could make it (36 clips) to leave processing overnight. It was comprised of the data from several different chips. Only 7 went through successfully, and 29 were all comprised of a single frame, again different durations but every clip the exact same frame. It froze on the first chip's last shot and then every single one of the second chip was the same frame.
I had also set my other MacPro exporting footage overnight, 34 clips from two compact cards. The first 14 shots, the first chip, went through successfully. The second chip, 20 shots, were all identical, mono-frame videos.
So far I have had two projects fail on a compact flash card break, but two projects also failed within no compact card change present. So while a compact card break may be correlated, I do not think it's the root problem and it may be entirely coincidental. I don't know.
So I created another project, this time to test what would make it fail. I put 5 clips, 3 from one flash card, two from another. The first three were 2k, the other two were 4k. I gave it the same export settings as my previous projects, and every one of these clips exported properly. So I know RedCine can handle shots from multiple cards and of multiple data sizes within the same project.
So far the only thing I can think of is that it's a buffer or project size issue, but I am running computers that should be able to handle that and the RedCine projects have slots to take upwords of 30 clips, so it doesn't make sense that projects of 11 shots within the same compact card would fail. I understand it's a beta program and I LOVE the interface and tools it provides, so I am hoping to find a work-around or figure out if it's user error so I can get my project working. Thanks!!
