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I got footage that was shot in a datarate far higher than what the recording media would allow. its all BRAW but the playback is constantly flickering with bright red MEDIA OFFLINE frames.
The frame replacer tool is great but incredibly tedious as there's probably hundreds of frames I need to process with it.
Is there not a way to just have it target every frame under a given parameter to apply it's effects to?

Please tell me there's an answer here. I'm totally unfamiliar with scripting in resolve.

In that case, I'd buy or rent a recorder that can record the output of your computer in high quality.

The BRAW player is automatically masking such lost frames by repeating the last good one. Of course, we should ask BM to integrate such a feature in DR, but if you need to salvage your footage now, it's a decent workaround. BTW, your camera can do it too.

I think I would vote no on this. It's up to the DP to know his equipment and shoot it correctly. I'd rather BMD spent their time adding other ideas.

I managed to make a fusion template effect that uses the frame replacer effect and the probe modifier to detect the media offline frames.

You can download and install the .drfx template from here: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/yzogpsf0 ... 7vmum&dl=1

How to use it:
1. You may need to render the video with Davinci so the Media Offline frames are baked in the video, otherwise the effect probably won't work
2. Insert the rendered video in the timeline
3. Go to the effects, find the "Media Offline Replacer" and apply it to the video

You can change the replacement method from the inspector. There is also a threshold parameter that controls the media offline frames detection threshold.

I tested the effect with a 16x9 video, I don't know if it works with other aspect ratios.

Smart work Panos. Thumbs up.

JacobN wrote:I got footage that was shot in a datarate far higher than what the recording media would allow. its all BRAW but the playback is constantly flickering with bright red MEDIA OFFLINE frames.
The frame replacer tool is great but incredibly tedious as there's probably hundreds of frames I need to process with it.
Is there not a way to just have it target every frame under a given parameter to apply it's effects to?

Please tell me there's an answer here. I'm totally unfamiliar with scripting in resolve.

Can I have some footage to test?

+1

to show and optionally replace all at once the dropped frames.

Panos thank you very much for sharing your template effect!
You just save my footage with it:)

panos_mts wrote:I managed to make a fusion template effect that uses the frame replacer effect and the probe modifier to detect the media offline frames.

How jerky are the results? If there's any kind of motion in there, it's going to look crazy/weird. Can you post a demo on YouTube or Vimeo?

Ah panos_mts, you are a legend for making that!

Surprisingly this is a very difficult issue to find a solution for, but your efforts at least provide us with something salvageable. And yes it does look pretty wacky if there is any significant motion, but that is a lesson learnt and at least this way you have the option of using that moment if it's critical to telling the story.

If I get time I will make a video to promote this solution to other unfortunate souls who thought turning off the 'stop recording when frames are dropped' setting was a good idea...would you be happy for me to host the template with credit to you of course?