NLEs seeing clip as a different clip

TSDavis

TSDavis

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So I have had a hard time searching for a resolution to this issue because it's actually a hard one to explain but I will be as clear and concise as possible. Filmed a speaking engagement for several hours the other day. I shot 3 cards on one camera (1 clip per card).

Clip_001 - shows in properties that it's 106 GB
Clip_002 - shows 17 GB

On the front end, these are correct sizes in conjunction with what I captured but here's where it get tricky.

Clip_001 - should be 1.5 hours
Clip_002 - 23 minutes

When I open Clip_001, whether it be in quicktime on a mac or PPro on a PC, the content of Clip_001 is always the same as the content in Clip_002. Clip_002 plays the correct content.

No backups were made yet as that is what I was in the process of doing when this was discovered. Before anyone says always make backups on set, it was not an option unfortunately. However, in an attempt to reduce the risk of issue I used offload to dump the cards and run checksum verification. Interestingly enough the verification file is nowhere to be seen for this particular card/clip.

I'm currently running a deep scan to see if I can recover the file, and trying to run it through copies and transcodes to see if something will work but I would love more ideas.
 
Not spanned. they are individual clips recorded at separate times on different cards. ProRes 422 captured on the BMCC.
 
If those two files are the correct sizes that you're seeing, it's impossible for them to be the same.

At first it sounded like you're using FCP X and the files were imported then moved and then re-linked incorrectly to the wrong clip (with the same name/properties), which is especially easy to do with the BMCC's ProRes .MOVs straight off a SSD, but not sure what's happening with the playback of the clips.

Both files should be different when opened in QT.
 
Card 1 no longer has the original file on it, since everything passed the checksum we had to format it and send it off on another gig. We've tried removing clip 2 from the computer but clip 1 still shows the same thing. I even reloaded clip 1 back to a card, loaded it in camera, and it still played back the wrong file. So something seriously wrong has occurred somewhere. I've been running deep scans on the card but so far I haven't been able to pull anything so I think we are just going to have to give up shortly and continue without that footage. Not my favorite thing todo but won't be the end of the world. I'm just hoping this never re-occurs.
 
NorBro said:
If those two files are the correct sizes that you're seeing, it's impossible for them to be the same.

At first it sounded like you're using FCP X and the files were imported then moved and then re-linked incorrectly to the wrong clip (with the same name/properties), which is especially easy to do with the BMCC's ProRes .MOVs straight off a SSD, but not sure what's happening with the playback of the clips.

Both files should be different when opened in QT.
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Correct, and I'm actually not a Mac editor anymore either. I'm actually a PC guy but I borrowed my wife's system and ran it on FCPx as a backup/maybe-mac-will-save-me moment. But I'm in agreeance with you, file-size alone tells me this should be something completely different.
 
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