Here’s my question. I’ve just spent close to five hours running a SD interlaced project through Dionne. I’ve done this is the past with other projects with no problem. Today when I went to see what Dionne had produced I found a massive file 296 GB in size of separate TIFF files. No video file had been created. How did that happen?
On the bottom of the settings page under “Preview and Export Settings” there appear two options: “Video” and “Image Sequence”. As I was setting up my project I had a look to see what “Image Sequence” was about. I saw things like that setting for TIFF and realized that would have nothing to do with me so went back, clicked on “Video” selected my options there (h.264 etc.) and pressed the “Export” button.
I can only assume that Topaz proceeded as if I’d selected “Image Sequence”, that somehow having opened and looked at that option Topaz locked onto it, even though I’d gone back to and selected the “Video” option.
Before writing this note I went to your main web page to see what it says about the “Preview and Export Settings” pane and its options of “Video” or “Image Sequence”. I found some general instructions about setting up to process a video but that page says nothing about the “Image Sequence” option: who it’s for, when to use it.
As it took just under five hours to process my project from SDi to HDp I do not want to make a new attempt at deinterlacing and enhancing with Dionne untill I’ve heard back from you folks.
Using either v3 or v4, I wasn’t able to “accidentally” create an image sequence instead of a video file just by looking at the settings.
If you’ve not had problems before then I would just chalk this up to experience and move on. If your uncertain, just do a small test export first.
If you can reproduce this behaviour, then report this as a bug in the “Bugs and Issues” section of the forum (there is a pinned post that gives details on how to report bugs).
Thanks for the replies. I decided to try again. The pane with the "Video"and “Image Sequence” options only appears if you click on the default Prores export option. (I had originally wanted to export as H.264 so had clicked on the delivery options.) This time I left things as I found them; that is as Prores export and things went smoothly.
Can I ask another question. After the Topaz conversion is through two files appear on the destination drive. Both will be the same size. One will end with “_DDV3_TVAI_TEMP.MOV”. The other will end with “_DDV3_TVAI.MOV” What is the file with “_TEMP”? What is it for? When I copy the file without “_TEMP” to another drive it plays just fine. When I try to open the “_TEMP” file nothing happens. Am I just supposed to delete it after the Topaz conversion/enhancement is complete?
It’s been quite some time since I did a ProRez output. If I remember correctly, the temp file was to save some of the things that get lost in normal conversion. Or it was to be able to view the video before the processing gets complete.
