Saturday, November 24, 2012

Re: [Avid-L2] Corrupt music files...STATIC!

 

I wouldn't suggest just re-wrapping them with a file conversion.

If the files are indeed corrupt as you say then converting them isn't going to take care of the corruption.

Better to delete and reimport

Anna

On Nov 15, 2012, at 9:16 PM, Shane Ross <shanerosseditor@yahoo.com> wrote:

> You all are too slow. Or I posted too soon.
>
> Tag teaming with another editor, who like me was also an assistant, we figured it out.
>
> All of the music files that work are PCM (MXF) files. All of the ones with issues were imported wrong…as WAVE (OMF). Yup…we check every single file that is WAVE and we hear the corruption. So…the solution we are doing is to consolidate the WAVE files, converting them to PCM as we do this, and deleting the originals.
>
> The assistants have a long night ahead of them.
>
> -shane
>
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> From: Shane Ross <shanerosseditor@yahoo.com>
> To: "Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com" <Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2012 5:06 PM
> Subject: Re: [Avid-L2] Corrupt music files...STATIC!
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>
> Crud...how did I end up posting that on the FCP-L?
>
> Thanks Tim....
>
> ________________________________
> From: Tim McLaughlin <mcltim.156@gmail.com>
> To: Avid-L <Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2012 5:03 PM
> Subject: [Avid-L2] Corrupt music files...STATIC!
>
> On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 6:53 PM, shanerosseditor
> <shanerosseditor@yahoo.com>wrote:
>
> > **
> >
> >
> > Hey all...we have an odd issue at this company I am working for at the
> > moment.
> >
> > Running Avid MC 6.0.1.1 (updating to 6.0.1.3 tonight), on iMacs, 2.7Ghz i5
> > machines with 4GB of RAM...all on EditShare.
> >
> > Periodically the music files, and ONLY the music files, will become
> > corrupt. By this I mean when one day they would start with music...logical
> > them being music cues...the next day they would suddenly just play back
> > static...LOUD static. The static would continue for a few seconds...then
> > silence...then the cue would start. By the end of the clip, the music just
> > cuts out.
> >
> > Slowly and surly more and more cues are getting corrupt. I played back a
> > sequence today to spot and fix the cues, and then the cut was open on
> > another system and 2 more spots popped up with static.
> >
> > When I match back to the clip...i get static. One clip actually was FULL
> > static and only static. Open this clip on multiple machines, and it is
> > static.
> >
> > But here's the rub...the media files are fine. I copied over 8 of the
> > trouble clips to my personal machine, dropped them into the proper file
> > structure, brought the media database into a bin thus populating the bin
> > with all the music cues and...they all play fine. SO the media is fine, but
> > the clips themselves are corrupt.
> >
> > Go to the original music project where the original music bins are, and
> > they are fine. But into the separate episode projects, they are corrupt.
> >
> > The media databases were rebuilt and didn't fix this. I swore it would
> > work.
> >
> > Anyone experience this before?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Shane
> >
> >
> >
>
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> http://vimeo.com/mcltim
> www.mcltim.com
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