HELP!! still having problems with Z7E CF files

Hitime wrote on 7/22/2008, 3:05 PM

Following advice from Sony staff I unistalled v7e and v8b and reinstalled v8b, deleting the appropriate program files folders on the way. I then cleaned the registry with the uniblue product just to be sure. I am using the sony application to capture the Z7E CF footage.

All this has made no difference to the problem. As reported in an earlier thread, v6d will process the files that v8b wont.

The problem is intermittent. It may be associated with the red frames I see on the timeline. SO FAR, I have not had problems if I can get as far as to trim the off on the time line.

The only VERY UNSATISFACTORY work around is rename the CF files, restart v8b, tell it not to search for missing files, and try introducing them one at a time, trimming off red frames as I go.

I have 25 hours in my current project (split between several veg
files) and it is beginning to look as though I will have to fall back to
Edius or v6d VERY VERY DISAPPOINTING!! (particularly with the multi cam bits).

WHEN CAN WE EXPECT V8C AND WILL IT HELP!!??

If anyone has input on this I really need HELP PLEASE!!

Does anyone know what the red frames are trying to tell me ??

Comments

farss wrote on 7/22/2008, 3:51 PM

From what I have seen with a corrupted SD file from Artbeats the red frame are telling you the frames cannot be read. They might be physically missing as they were in my case or simply undecodable as they might be in your case.
If you find that another app can decode them reliably and you still want to stick with Vegas (Edius has a superior multicam capability though) then transcoding them using the other app into something that Vegas can read should get you going again. The only downside to this is other codecs will use less compression and hence your file size will blow out, still disks are cheap and the less compressed codecs play back easier as well.

Bob.

Tim L wrote on 7/22/2008, 9:50 PM

Have you seen this thread?
http://www.sonycreativesoftware.com/forums/ShowMessage.asp?Forum=4&MessageID=602979

Scroll almost halfway down to the post by ForumAdmin on 7/7/2008 3:32:22 PM. It gives instructions on how to download and install a new-and-improved m2tsplug.dll. This seems to be helping a lot of the people who have been testing it.

Tim L

Hitime wrote on 7/23/2008, 2:24 AM

this is a duplicate of the message I posted on the HDV thread.

Thanks for that!!

At first sight, this does seem to have cured the faults I had. However the tests that I was able to do quickly are limited because of deletion of faulty files and renaming them leading to some uncertainty as to whether I was recreating problems EXACTLY.

I did not see red frames when I expected to.

If you hear no more from me, it is good news!!

farss wrote on 7/25/2008, 3:22 AM

Only of consolation value really however FCP users are having very similar problems:
http://www.dvinfo.net/conf/showthread.php?t=126340

What's really curious is the problem seems to be only in the latest release of FCP and/or OSX. Also of some note, Ppro has been having wierd problems with HDV as well. Both Ppro and Vegas use a HDV codec from MC and I'm not 100% certain but I think FCP uses it as well.

Bob.