it ended up being something weird in the folder titles. renaming them fixed it. must have been an oddball character in the name that i missed. strange that i could open the original files and not the clones. go figure.
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On Mar 11, 2011, at 5:53 PM, Jeff Hedberg wrote:
> I don't know if you had to do this also - but when we had a similar situation (production company delivers hard drive - we start working... hard drive fails... we move to backup hard drive... files no show up anymore) I had to also make sure the disk was named the same thing as the original disk.
> (running on mac os)
> From then on we clone all HDs that come in the door using 'Super Duper' although you could use 'Carbon Copy Cloner' as well (instead of just copying w/ the finder).
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> On Mar 11, 2011, at 2:01 PM, Bruce Tovsky wrote:
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>> not that anyone seems to be interested, but the solution:
>> the files that weren't mounting were in a folder on the firewire drive. taking them out of the folder and having them at the top of the drive allowed them to mount fine.
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>> On Mar 11, 2011, at 1:09 PM, Bruce Tovsky wrote:
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>>> a follow up:
>>> the files that i was trying to AMA into my project were copied from a USB shuttle drive - a Finder level copy - to an external firewire drive. i tried mounting the files from the USB shuttle and they showed up fine. so it is just the copied files that are having an issue. so do i need to use a checksum copy app like shotput to copy these so they will mount from the fw drive?
>>> thanks
>>> bruce
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>>> On Mar 9, 2011, at 11:05 AM, Bruce Tovsky wrote:
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>>>> hi everyone
>>>> here's a stumper: i've got a batch of ProRes files transcoded from a Canon 5D. i didn't do the transcodes, just received a drive with a slew of them and a slew of DVCProHD files in a folder without the metadata files. not surprisingly, the DVCPro files won't AMA, but neither will the ProRes. they have no illegal characters in either the filename or foldername. in the meantime i'm using MPEG Streamclip to trancode them to DNxHD files and then into the Avid. any ideas?
>>>> thanks
>>>> bruce
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>>>> bruce tovsky
>>>> www.skeletonhome.com
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