texturalist
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Hi DVXUSER community & GH13 people,
This is my first post but I've been reading the forum for ages and have found it an invaluable resource for my work!
Maybe my question has been addressed somewhere already, in which case, COULD SOMEONE POINT ME TO THE ANSWER? Thank you in advance!
Here's my problem: I cannot Log & Transfer a specific set of .MTS Files that were shot under specific conditions with a "stable set" of new AVCHD settings.
I've decided to upgrade my GH1 with the GH13 hack using Ptool 3.36 a couple weeks ago, only for the AVCHD increased bitrate settings (no change to MJPEG) and the 1080 24PN mode.
I used the following "stable settings" as stated in the forums:
Video bitrate adjustment - 38000000
Overall bitrate adjustment - 40000000
Limiting bitrate adjustment - 42000000
My job was to film an entire take of a 1 hour live singing & dancing performance with the new settings. I used a 16GB Transcend Class 6 SD card.
For this take, I had a tripod and never changed the angle, nor zoomed, no moved my camera. It was a static shot of moving characters on a stage, with an average amount of detail. So most probably the max bitrate was never reached, and after a few tests (which I was very happy about in terms of overall much improved image quality thanks to the increased AVCHD bitrate) lasting anywhere between mins to about 20mins, I figured I could shoot for a little over an hour with the 16GB card.
On the actual 1-hour performance take I shot with the GH13 hack, after about 30mins of shooting, the initially empty card seemed to have reached its 4GB Fat32 limit, and based on what I could see in the directory structure (after I finished shooting), it created a new .MTS file with the correct numbering increment. Then it stopped about 125Mbytes later for no apparent reason. So I pushed the REC button again, and let it roll till the end of the performance which was another 4GB of space.
I went on to copy the SD card onto my HDD (the 3 MTS files I had showed "4GB, 125MB and 0GB" on Finder and SD card). I'm using a Macbook Pro and FCP 6.0.6 as my NLE. But when I copied them to my Macbook Pro (Leopard OS X), I managed to get the seemingly "correct" file size "4GB", "125MB", 4GB").
I never had issues logging and transfering with the GH13 hack and the AVCHD when I made a few tests that were much shorter in REC time length (less than 10mins usually). I could see the much improved quality and was happy to shoot with the new settings.
But with the takes I had on this actual performance shoot, when using LOG & TRANSFER on FCP, and trying to open the PRIVATE directory structure of my shoot, I get this error message :
"Warning : "PRIVATE" contains unsupported media or has an invalid directory structure. Please choose a folder whose directory structure matches supported media."
So my problem is that I can't recover these files and L&T to ProRes 422 on FCP 6.0.6.
Does anyone know what I can do to recover these files? Is there another SW I could use to try and open these files? I tried MPEGStreamClip to open the .MTS file but it says "File Open Error : Unrecognized File Type".
Interestingly, VLC can read and play them, but FCP can't for some reason. I looked at the files and definitely was sure it was 24PN (I could see no interlacing) and could see the improved image quality, even though I felt that 4GB for 30mins wasn't that much different from the non-hacked AVCHD recording size for 30mins. My understanding was that it was shot in a church with less lighting and less high-detail, so the codec would not go that high in bit-rate... so I think there was no mistaking, especially since I had done many tests with the new hack and firmware before shooting the actual 1-hour take.
Thank you so much again for the help if you can point me to the right answer.
Cheers,
Kai
Filmmaker / Video-Artist
www.kaiducluong.com
This is my first post but I've been reading the forum for ages and have found it an invaluable resource for my work!
Maybe my question has been addressed somewhere already, in which case, COULD SOMEONE POINT ME TO THE ANSWER? Thank you in advance!
Here's my problem: I cannot Log & Transfer a specific set of .MTS Files that were shot under specific conditions with a "stable set" of new AVCHD settings.
I've decided to upgrade my GH1 with the GH13 hack using Ptool 3.36 a couple weeks ago, only for the AVCHD increased bitrate settings (no change to MJPEG) and the 1080 24PN mode.
I used the following "stable settings" as stated in the forums:
Video bitrate adjustment - 38000000
Overall bitrate adjustment - 40000000
Limiting bitrate adjustment - 42000000
My job was to film an entire take of a 1 hour live singing & dancing performance with the new settings. I used a 16GB Transcend Class 6 SD card.
For this take, I had a tripod and never changed the angle, nor zoomed, no moved my camera. It was a static shot of moving characters on a stage, with an average amount of detail. So most probably the max bitrate was never reached, and after a few tests (which I was very happy about in terms of overall much improved image quality thanks to the increased AVCHD bitrate) lasting anywhere between mins to about 20mins, I figured I could shoot for a little over an hour with the 16GB card.
On the actual 1-hour performance take I shot with the GH13 hack, after about 30mins of shooting, the initially empty card seemed to have reached its 4GB Fat32 limit, and based on what I could see in the directory structure (after I finished shooting), it created a new .MTS file with the correct numbering increment. Then it stopped about 125Mbytes later for no apparent reason. So I pushed the REC button again, and let it roll till the end of the performance which was another 4GB of space.
I went on to copy the SD card onto my HDD (the 3 MTS files I had showed "4GB, 125MB and 0GB" on Finder and SD card). I'm using a Macbook Pro and FCP 6.0.6 as my NLE. But when I copied them to my Macbook Pro (Leopard OS X), I managed to get the seemingly "correct" file size "4GB", "125MB", 4GB").
I never had issues logging and transfering with the GH13 hack and the AVCHD when I made a few tests that were much shorter in REC time length (less than 10mins usually). I could see the much improved quality and was happy to shoot with the new settings.
But with the takes I had on this actual performance shoot, when using LOG & TRANSFER on FCP, and trying to open the PRIVATE directory structure of my shoot, I get this error message :
"Warning : "PRIVATE" contains unsupported media or has an invalid directory structure. Please choose a folder whose directory structure matches supported media."
So my problem is that I can't recover these files and L&T to ProRes 422 on FCP 6.0.6.
Does anyone know what I can do to recover these files? Is there another SW I could use to try and open these files? I tried MPEGStreamClip to open the .MTS file but it says "File Open Error : Unrecognized File Type".
Interestingly, VLC can read and play them, but FCP can't for some reason. I looked at the files and definitely was sure it was 24PN (I could see no interlacing) and could see the improved image quality, even though I felt that 4GB for 30mins wasn't that much different from the non-hacked AVCHD recording size for 30mins. My understanding was that it was shot in a church with less lighting and less high-detail, so the codec would not go that high in bit-rate... so I think there was no mistaking, especially since I had done many tests with the new hack and firmware before shooting the actual 1-hour take.
Thank you so much again for the help if you can point me to the right answer.
Cheers,
Kai
Filmmaker / Video-Artist
www.kaiducluong.com
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