Hi,
It's been some days now that I am getting more and more Consistency Check Failure errors and garbage frames in my Avid Projects.
It can happen in any project into any video track containing either a transcoded clip, a title, an Avid color correction track, or a third party effect track.
It will happen during the rendering of a track, or during playback of a track, at which points I'll have to check at which level the error occurs, and either re-render the effect, re-transcode the clip or re-generate the title.
Most of the time it's the error:
SWDC_CodecInterface_Task::Execute()
CONSISTENCY CHECK FAILURE !?! : [<idNum>]
And some times I get garbage frames with part of it intack and random noise, video glitches or pure digital garbage (Like a patch of purple noisy filler for example). Pretty much like in this thread:
http://community.avid.com/forums/t/136769.aspx
This is, as you can imagine, very frustrating, because I cannont render all my effects at once and let Media Composer alone. I need to render one track at a time and then re-transcode, re-render, or re-generate the deffective parts as I go, which is quite time consuming.
Nothing changed in my system recently.
I'm running Media Composer 8.3.1 on a HP Z400 with 25 Gigs of RAM, a 6-core W3690 3.47Ghz processor and a Nvidia Quadro 4000 video card.
Media composer itself is running on an Intel Solid State drive, and my work disk is connected externally through a eSata passthrough that plugs directly on one of my motherboard SATA port.
Should I reinstall Media Composer altogether? Should I be worring that my main video editing hard drive is showing signs of impeding failure?
Thank you for any help / advice you can provide!