Potential Clip Problems, Please check...

[Bassman2003]

Hello,

I filmed a wedding over the weekend and I am working with the footage and an issue has shown up.

(I will have my personal review of the camera forthcoming when I get some time).

On long clips, I am noticing a few frames dropped around the 26 or 27 minute mark or the 3.99Gb mark.

So it looks like the seemless transition between clips is not working!

I am using Panasonic Class "6" 32 gig cards

If I could ask, could owners please check if this happens with their setup?

Thanks.

I have another wedding to shoot this weekend and this is not comforting...

[Evro]

Hey Bassman I too would like a response from someone as this can't be a good thing - especially if it happens during vows or toasts...
I'm due to receive my camera at the end of the month.

[manglerBMX]

how are you handling the clips? are they getting transcoded to another format or are you working with an NLE that supports native avchd?

[Mark Whalen]

Also, what quality setting were you using when you encountered this problem? Is your issue reproducible at other settings as well?

[Everts]

So this camera is capable of producing drop frames afterall, hmmmm.
I wonder if this has anything to do with it.
Fat32 has 4 Gb filesize limit.
NTSF has none.
The SHDC cards are all FAT32 formatted .
I can imagine some sort of delay happening in the camera when creating a new clip while recording

I dont do weddings but I would really hate for this to happen if ever I have to shoot for that long. Come to think of it interviews can get messy.
Still waiting on my camera.

[Thomas Lew]

Not that you should have to find a workaround but couldn't you just stop recording and record again a second after during a down time when u don't need to continuously record?

[manglerBMX]

when shooting a wedding, or any event with multiple cameras, it makes it a million times easier to sync them up when they don't have breaks in recording.

[PKraft]

Originally Posted by Bassman2003

On long clips, I am noticing a few frames dropped around the 26 or 27 minute mark or the 3.99Gb mark.

Working on a mac?
Then it is a know problem if you are using OSX 10.5.5 and Quicktime 7.5. or older.
See: www.perian.org and www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/30931

[ilauzirika]

I haven't had any problem with spanned clips so far, thay all played back perfectly.
clips were converted to dvcpro hd with the pany converter.

[Averdahl]

Originally Posted by Bassman2003

So it looks like the seemless transition between clips is not working!

- Are you editing native AVCHD clips?
- What editing application do you use?
- Have you tried to convert the clips to DVCpro HD with Panasonics transcoder?

I have "only" seen this issue with native AVCHD clips in Premiere Pro CS4. The problem went away when i transcoded the clips with Panasonics AVCHD to DVCPro HD converter.

/Roger