Jeff Drury wrote:
> practically nothing. no significant info in the logs.
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> what im finding now is that i can recreate it without the media, so i
> can comfortably rule that out. i can literally subclip it down to 3
> shots, make the sequence nothing but a couple of captured 23.98 shots,
> take the media offline...
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> and as soon as i cut into the middle of the shot (won't happen if i
> overwrite the entire thing) it errors out, crashes, done.
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> On Mar 3, 2010, at 10:46 AM, Bogdan Grigoresco wrote:
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>> Check the Avid Fatal Error reports folder, logs might shed some
>> light over the actual issue.
>>
>> cheers,
>> Bogdan Grigoresco
>> www.finale.tv
>>
>> --- On Wed, 3/3/10, Jeff Drury <jtdgroups@gmail.com> wrote:
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>> From: Jeff Drury <jtdgroups@gmail.com>
>> Subject: [Avid-L2] Repeated MC4.0.5 crashes. Random but Resilient.
>> To: Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com
>> Date: Wednesday, March 3, 2010, 4:26 PM
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>> Hi All.
>>
>> Wondering if any one has any further thoughts/insights into a rather
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>> big problem i am having:
>>
>> Basically, we have a project with a ton of mixed media. There is a lot
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>> of SD dv25 material, a good amount of material at 1080i (dnx145), but
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>> the "hero" footage is at 1080/23.98 (dnx36). Since there were all
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>> these mixed rates, we imagined it best to work at 1080i, even know the
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>> bulk of the cut would be at 23.98.
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>> And for reference, we're cutting commercials here. 30 to 60 seconds
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>> time. 4 video layers max. (one of those being a color effect and the
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>> other being a matte).
>>
>> However, we found after getting into the project that the media
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>> composer would crash often with segmentation faults while working with
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>> the 59i sequences. The crashes are rather random and happen during
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>> simple editting tasks. Trimming, overwrites, extract/splice in the
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>> timeline. They seem to get more frequent as time goes by.
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>> We have tried, as far as I can imagine, everything. Starting simple,
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>> we changed out the user, project, mcstate and site settings files. The
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>> project was on unity, but we moved that locally. We tried it with an
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>> adrenaline connected and without. Our other office tried it with a
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>> nitris. We tried Snow leopard and Leopard. We tried several completely
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>> different computers. Still got the errors.
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>> We've disabled and removed video tracks and audio tracks. Cleared all
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>> the renders, rerendered. Flat out removed every effect we could.
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>> If we unmount the media drives, the problem subsides...but of course
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>> it can be rather difficult to cut when you cant actually see the
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>> footage.
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>> Now that might make you think there is some media corruption issue,
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>> but we have the all of the media local and it was backed up to a
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>> different system immediately after being captured. In the rare case
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>> that I have found actual source media corruption, I have found that it
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>> shows read errors when backing up via retrospect. None of this media
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>> does. It's all clear of errors during copy and further the crashes can
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>> happen practically anywhere. No particilar clip fails alone. We also
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>> loaded the backup drive on to another computer, same issues.
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>> And no these are not FireWire drives either. Internal Sata.
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>> So, what has worked?
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>> So far...
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>> Since most of the current media being used was still 23.98 we deleted
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>> the mattes and modified the sequences over to 23.98. Created a new
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>> project at 23.98 and are working from there. It took a good amount of
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>> time to get all we needed moved over, but it's running. No crashes for
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>> the last 5 hours.
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>> My concern is though, we are going to have to start working with the
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>> 30i and 59i material shortly. It seems rather unkosher to me to try to
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>> work with that at 23.98. We are goin to see how it plays, but it's
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>> widely being seen as an issue.
>>
>> So, any thoughts? Why are these 59i sequences failing so regularly?
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>> Any way to work around?? I got a partner in the company and 4 intense
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>> clients right behind me waiting for an answer to the problem.
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>> Thanks.
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