G'day Barry -

Never seen that one before - You probably haven't either.

Using some clips from the MF41 (only difference is storage capacity), I produced using SVRT and couldn't replicate your frozen output. Repeated process to .mp4, rather than .m2ts & that made no difference. I'm assuming there were no unusual edits done at the freeze point.

Cheers - Tony
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Hi Tony. It's definately weird, I might expect something like this from an HDV capture error, but this is flash, modern. Positive it's the file and not actually PD. So I thought I might outsmart it by running it through ColorDirector, but it makes that choke on the same frame, also. The file starts playing but stops there. Yet plays perfect in the library. It might even be the audio track that's screwing the pooch. So, I thought I might outsmart it by installing a Tony's favorite Format Factory. Format factory gagged on it too. AHA, I will outsmart it I have Media Espresso, which inexplicably is bottlestopped at 16Mb max bitrates, but it didn't matter because it choked on it also. So, I thought I'd (stop me if you've heard this one), outsmart that damn corrupt nasty beast and ran it through the amazing Mercalli Stabie and BAM! Good to go, and fortunately (sort of) the file is from my handheld camera from a 3-camera shoot so the stabilizer is OK to use anyway, just wish I could raise the bitrate on that, too but at least it's 20Mbs/sec, that will have to suffice. Must be a few 0s and 1s out of place in that file and only Mercalli could run by it.
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