Project Managed Project Timecode Shift

[robinsonalexh]

I just received a hard-drive of a short film that's been populated with the Project Manager tool. Many of the clips timecode start & end points are different than those in the project of the person who sent it to me. I was on the phone with them and asking them to look at the time-code of the same clips on their end and they are off by quite a bit. Though, unfortunately, the amount they are off changes (possibly depending on the duration of the clip). Which led me to believe it was possibly a frame-rate issue; however, Interpretting the footage at 24fps or 29.97 (originally 23.976) does not rectify the issue.

This Project Managed project was created on a Mac. I am now using Windows. I didn't think that should cause the issue, but I'm listing in here just for more information.

The clips are there. And they are correctly linked. But the Media Start is completely different, and therefore many of the in/out points are completely wrong.

I don't want to have to rebuild the entire project, but it's looking like that might be my only option. Any ideas?

[Kevin-Monahan]

What's the source footage?

Kevin

[robinsonalexh]

Kevin, I actually found out that this issue is NOT happening when I open on a Mac. It seems to be only caused by porting from Mac to Windows. Unfortunately, my mac machine is much too slow to work with 4K A7iii footage. Is this a bug? It seems like porting across platforms shouldn't cause an issue like this, but I guess it is?

[excited_Genie16B8]

For that footage, I recommend using Cineform proxies, regardless of machine specs.

Work offline using proxy media |

Additionally, I recommend bypassing Project Manager and acquiring the entirety of the original footage, from which you would create the proxies.