Solid Green Frames? HELP!

[Peter Kagan]

Editor and I working on project. We ingested into FCP as Pro Res HQ with newly downloaded plug in from RED, FCP Studio 3. While working shots went from looking fine to solid chroma key green frames with no information. Thumbnails also in finder as well as FCP.
Is this a corrupt QT problem? New QT part of plug-in no?

 

[Ben Brainerd]

The most likely cause of this is bad frames in the R3D you transcoded from. Do you still have the original camera footage? Did you use a Data Manager to check the footage as you made copies?

 

[Peter Kagan]

DIT did. yes. Client edit already done from same footage. I'm going back to do my own.
Seems unlikely. Also looked fine this morning. some clips seems unaffected.

 

[Zakaree Sandberg]

all clips run through R3D data manager.. there were no Bad R3D's these same r3d's have worked before in other systems as peter stated.

he updated to fcp3 and downloaded the fcp3 download rom red.com and installed everything...

the clips work.. and then all of a sudden turn green (in the bin and on the timeline)

its not them being green from the start or at a certain point in the clip.. its totally random.

this isnt a r3d or footage issue.. this is a quicktime or fcp issue. anyone else experience something like this?

 

[Peter Kagan]

Green Frames IN FCP.

Green Frames IN FCP.

Here's what the browser looks like in FCP.

 

[Dave Weber]

The last time I saw something like this was a problem with the transfer from CF card to computer. The CF reader couldn't handle it. It didn't happen every time but once is enough.

 

[Zakaree Sandberg]

the problem is.. these clips were already good on a drive.. they were previously edited and have had no issues until now

 

[Peter Kagan]

Have sent a message to RED tech support, pleading for attention. Wondering if this might be a bug in the FCP studio 3, or RED Cine I downloaded yesterday before all this began. I have had multiple crashes, both in RED Cine and FCP. In fact the reason I bailed on RED Cine and went to FCP plugin for transcode was multiple crashes in Red Cine.

 

[Dave Weber]

There was a bug i had that made the footage green but never a solid green picture. Have you tried uninstalling and reinstalling the plug ins?

 

[Dave Weber]

Try looking here.

http://reduser.net/forum/showthread.php?t=52377&highlight=green+footage

 

[Ben Brainerd]

Try looking here.

http://reduser.net/forum/showthread.php?t=52377&highlight=green+footage

The issue with most of the prior "Green Footage" issues is that they're caused by known bad frames. If this footage has already worked on previous edits, that's probably not the cause.

Question: Are the files you're getting the green on the *EXACT SAME* as the ones the client did the edit with? Same drive or, at the very least, checksummed against those copies?

Define "Randomly turn green" please? So they're not, say, always turning green at frame 145 (Which would indicate a bad frame) but will play fine and then turn green at a random point?