Personal Thanks to Laurence!

TeeJay wrote on 8/21/2008, 6:06 AM

I was in the major poo-poo because i had a HDV Mpeg shot from my Sony Z1 that would not play back in the timeline, just showing red frames. It was an hour and a half long file and was the main stream from a tapeless (captured in DV rack) concert shoot.

Did a search here and found this thread http://www.sonycreativesoftware.com/forums/ShowMessage.asp?ForumID=4&MessageID=598405 After following Laurence's suggestion in regards to Mpeg-VCR i downloaded it and did a "repair" and it totally FIXED my problem thus getting me out of some serious trouble.

Thanks for this suggestion Laurence, i hope this can be of some help to others that may have similar problems.

Sincerely,

Tian Jay

Comments

InterceptPoint wrote on 8/21/2008, 6:18 AM

I must add my thanks to Laurence as well. How many times has he saved my bacon? Too many to count.

Laurence wrote on 8/21/2008, 10:00 AM

Just checking into my favorite forum and saw my name. No problem. My bacon has been saved here more times than I've done the saving. Glad to see that some of the time my wife says I "waste" here actually did somebody some good.

MPEG VCR can actually strip the transport data off an m2t clip and give you a plain old mpeg 2 clip. This helps quite often because the corruption is often in this extra data. This is different than merely changing the header so that Vegas uses a different mp2 playback engine like some of the other "fixes" do. Yeah, this trick has saved my footage quite a few times.

To do this, just load an m2t clip into MPEG VCR and save it as an mpg clip with mpeg2 encoding. It will smart-render the output and you can change the beginning and end points to trim off some junk while you are at it.

TeeJay wrote on 8/21/2008, 3:53 PM

Actually in this case the reverse was true; I usually capture to M2t files and have never experienced problems but in DV Rack this option doesn't allow you to forward through or pause recordings so i thought i'd try recording as MPEG instead, which for some reason was corrupt when transferring it to my timeline but after running the fix GOP error utility on it with MPEG-VCR, all is good.

Laurence wrote on 8/22/2008, 6:25 AM

I suppose anything that rewrites the formatting codes is good. Glad it worked out. It doesn't always help. Sometimes things are so buggered up that you have to just lose a clip. Usually it works out well though.

I still say that disabling background process like virus protection during capture gives you much more error-free captures. Since I started doing that, I've hardly had to rescue any footage. I get very few errors going tapeless as well.