Didn't anyone have similar experience? Please help

Two questions:

1.) Are your m2t files sequentially numbered, as in you used Lumiere's Autoincrement function when you captured your files?

If so, then go back to step #9 of the procedure and carefully read the note about using Autoincrement.


2.) Have you posted your issue on the Lumiere HD forum?

That fact that it worked once but not this time must mean that your procedure has changed slightly.

Hi Jeff, thank you again. :) I did post this on Lumiee forum, but no answer yet.

I did the autoincrement option, but I don't completely understand the requirment for selecting the files. In my first try I think I just selected the whole folder and it did everything correctly. Now, for the second try, I selected the files manually, but how does it makes sense since to select those files I have to access the folder anyway? Which means I have to click on the folder and open it, so the fact of opening the folder already registers with Lumiere. I have many files in there and I only want to use few, so what I did is I pointed the arrow and selected the files I wanted from bottom to top. This didn't work. So the next time I just went into the folder and selected one file only. This didn't work either...

Maybe I should just reinstall the Lumiere from the scratch? Hopefully, I won't loose the license.

This whole thing is quite uncomfortable, especially after paying $200 for it - it feels like they (Lumiere) just glued together some kind of interface together and threw it out in the street for people to have problems with it.

Hi Rati,

We are using Lumiere to capture only, use MPEG Streamclip to transfer to AIC files for editing in final cut pro.

Do a search for Tim Dashwood on this or the JVC thread, he's got all this stuff figured out and happily has shared his info.

Good luck,

Tom Chaney

www.tomchaney.com

When I'm in capture mode, sometimes Lumiere 1.7 will make make data from the camera dropout. I get a black screen for a split second then blue then a pop. I look back at Lumiere and it has stopped capturing. I was having this problem yesterday when I first tried to capture, so I quit Lumiere to make sure it wasn't the tape. No problems with the tape. It plays fine when Lumiere isn't running. I'm not running any other programs at the same time. It seems like Lumiere is trying to gain control of the camera, because the capture works best when the VTR controls on Lumiere aren't working and I have to control the camera manually. Any thoughts?
Steve

If I import my AIC 1280x720 MOV file straight into FCP it keeps its size. If I import the XML that Lumiere made it comes in wanky even though when I look at the movie's properties in FCP browser it still says 1280x720. Any ideas?
Steve

If anyone else has had this problem, I found a fix. Wait to create your project file. Open FCP and then immediately import an XML file, instead of importing it into the already open project have it create a new project. After that, double check all your sequence settings and make sure they are what you want. Every XML file after that should work.

I have just finished my first workflow test with version 1.7 and it looks like they have removed the ability to maintain the frame dimensions in the timeline tab.
v1.6b6 used to have a section underneath the codec selection that allowed you to maintain source dimensions or scale to the dimensions of your liking.
This is bad news for those of us who prefer to maintain 1280x720 in AIC and never go back to the m2v source.

It looks like they have removed this option in v1.7 and now the files always downscale to 720x480.

There also used to be an additional Quicktime dialog that appeared when you hit the GO button that allowed you to select 48KHZ AIFF and confirm your codec selection and frame rate. THis is also gone.

Rati,

Sorry for the delay in response. I don't visit this sub-forum very often.

This might sound like a silly question, but did you use any "spaces" in your filenames? It is a ridiculous thing that on a mac you would be forced to used an underscore "_" but it seems LumiereHD does not like spaces.

I've also noticed it will hang if the file name you originally entered is too long. Keep it under 25 characters.

Otherwise, I'm not sure what your issue could be stemming from. I have found v1.6b6 and v1.7 to be fairly solid (even though I'm pissed that they removed scale control in v1.7 - see my other post)

Hi Tim, thank you for your post. I didn't use spaces actually and I couldn't figure out what was wrong until I downloaded the latest version of the Lumiere HD. It seemed to have fixed the problem, although there is another issue now.

I selected four files to be transcoded into M2V files. It did transcode all four of them, but when it created quicktime MOV files there were only three instead of four. This was a bit misterious to me. I didn't really follow up on this and didn't do another conversion because I was busy with shoots, but I hope it won't be an issue when I begin to transcode dozens of files.

Also, I played some of the raw files M2T through VLC player and it did play most of the fine, but it didn't play some of them and for couple it gave me an error. Is it possible that I ruined the raw files by prematurely playing them through VLC player? Does it mean that I can't properly transcode those files anymore and I shouldn't trust the quality?

Thanks,

Rati

Everytime I import a whole 63 minute tape of footage into Lumiere HD, it seems to import it all fine. But after I"m done demultiplexing it and finally getting into an FCP XML file. It cuts the vidoe only off on every tape at exactly 31 minutes 15 seconds into the tape. The whole 63 minutes of audio is still there, and I hvae to end up going back and re-importing the last half of the tape... can anybody help me?

kevin

Can't you just select Custom and enter W 1280 and H 720?

I was having a problem with Timeline Codec not doing anything until I noticed some of my files were only 4k (the .m2t, .m2v and .aiff). When I deleted those, Timeline Codec worked.

You can use lumiere for capture. To encode it for use in FCP you better use Mpeg Streamclip (freeware)

I'm capturing 720p/24p footage. Can someone please clarify the FCP proxie files created in the Realtime Timelince Codec in Lumiere HD 1.7? Here are the steps I have taken so far.

1. Choose the PRESETS pull-down menu In the REALTIME TIMELINE CODEC window. Select OTHER.

2. In the COMPRESSION TYPE Pulldown menu, select APPLE INTERMEDIATE CODEC.

3. Select the FRAMES PER SECOND pull-down menu and select 23.98.

4. Select the OTHER button in the COMPRESSOR > PRESET.

5. <b>In the SIZE section, choose the SOURCE button. Note that you can also create a smaller dimension such as 720 x 406 (16:9 aspect ratio) since this is only used as a proxy in FCP to edit with. But if you have the memory and speed, working in the full 1280 x 720 is preferable. These files will not be rendered into your final master. After you edit with this proxy codec, you will use Media Manager to build a new timeline from the full size raw capture images.</b>

Disk Space is the main issue I am dealing with. Because of the additional steps necessary with the HDV 24p footage, I'm taking up tons of disk drive space already. Every GB in the m2t files folder is doubled in the Video files folder after "demuxing" plus the additional space in the Audio files folder. On top of that, the "Realtime" .mov files created after step Three in the Lumiere process (Timeline Codec Apple Intermediate Codec at 1280x720) more than doubles the original video files in file size yet again.

My undersanding in regards to step 5 above was that keeping the 1280x720 pixel size the same would not effect filesize becasue these are proxie files used during the offline. I must have misunderstood this because the .mov video files are bigger than the originals. Can I save disk size by reducing the pixel size of the FCP proxis files during the offline. I have 60 hours of footage to go through still, and I do not need high resolution during the off-line process. My undersanding is that when I create the final on-line sequence with Media Manager I would then up the resolution to Best Quality at 1280x720.

Any suggestions?

Everytime I import a whole 63 minute tape of footage into Lumiere HD, it seems to import it all fine. But after I"m done demultiplexing it and finally getting into an FCP XML file. It cuts the vidoe only off on every tape at exactly 31 minutes 15 seconds into the tape. The whole 63 minutes of audio is still there, and I hvae to end up going back and re-importing the last half of the tape... can anybody help me?

kevin

I'm having the samelr problem but not on all tapes, but when it does happen it's always at the same 31 minute and 17 second mark into the clip. Has anyone figured this out?

I just spent all day converting my Realtime .mov files to .m2v files following all the workflow steps listed on this forum and when I went to check the files some of them, not all, some of them are corrupted with the video going black at some point in the file, yet audio continues on. I got a little suspcious when I saw that file size for these .m2v files should have been larger, low and behold it was becasue some of the video is missing. Does anyone know why this happens? How do I fix this? Do I go back and recapture from the begining where the video from these clips drops out, or can I go back and repeat steps in the LHD process after capturing the original footage. Also, after reading another post with a similar problem I went back and checked my faulty clips and sure enough the video drops out at exactly 31 min and 17 seconds into the faulty clips.

Device control for my JVC HDPro VTR worked fine in LHD for capturing, but in FCP 5 (after following all the HDV 720p/24p workflow steps losted here) I can't get the JVC HD Pro VTR to show up in my list of Devices via Firewire. Has anyone else had this problem and if so what's the solution.

Use Mpeg Streamclip.
Lumiere advises to capture sements no longer than 20 minutes due to a quicktime/mpeg bug. I think the bug is in the lumiere software. Using Mpeg streamclip less problems occur. Ask for repayment of your Lumiere account.

Use Mpeg Streamclip.
Lumiere advises to capture sements no longer than 20 minutes due to a quicktime/mpeg bug. I think the bug is in the lumiere software. Using Mpeg streamclip less problems occur. Ask for repayment of your Lumiere account.

It's not on their website as far as I can see, nor in their manual. I'm very disappointed in LHD. They have zero customer support, and the silence on this forum is deafening. I'll be asking for my money back soon if they can't provide some ansewers real quick.

So I'm about half way done with the rough cut of my current documentary and I have been using Lumiere HD successfully, albeit with many rough patches along the way. Now that I have FCP 5.1.2 installed I would love to abandon using Lumiere to capture becasue of the added time and additional drive space necessary for all those additional files. Has anyone tried switching to FCP 5.1.2 for logging and capturing in the middle of an edit started with LHD? If so, is this even possible, and if it is, how will the workflow change. I attempted to bring in some new footage into the existing (LHD) project using FCP 5.1.2 and encountered the following issues:

1. It appears that when capturing HDV 720/24p footage with FCP 5.1.2 there is no longer the familiar log and capture window. Instead, just a small window where you can give your clip a title, and then click on capture.

2. It appears there's no way to capture the HDV footage at half resolution (720x480) for offline quality and drive space considerations. The HDV 720/24p to Apple Intermediate Codec is locked and it appears there is no way to duplicate it and then customize the resolution size like I was able to do when using LHD. What ends up happening then is that I will have clips with two different resolutions in the same sequence, the Lumiere AIC clips are 720x480 and the clips captured directly through FCP will be 1280x720. I realize that once I'm ready to online and I reconnect the Lumiere AIC clips to their original 1280x720 "master" sources, that everything will be full 1280x720, but having two resolutions in the same rough cut sequence is a little weird. Because the sequence setting is 720x480, the new FCP captured clips are being reduced to about 56% automatically when I bring them into the sequence timeline which means they need to be rendered every time I move them around.

3. For some reason the footage coming in via FCP 5.1.2 HDV 720/24p to AIC has a frame rate of 59.94 fps instead of 23.98 fps, so when I drop them into the AIC sequence (23.98) they are playing at about 2x speed.

I've got FCP (latest version) and some 1080i/60 footage from a Canon XH-A1 crudely slapped together- about two minutes worth, no sound. I created an MP4 file that came out to an amazing 6.7mb- of course it showed serious compression artifacts but still impressive considering. Now I'd like to create a file that stresses quality not compression- can someone recommend settings for that? Thanks!