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P2 data corruption
Shooting a commercial with the HVX-200 and 8GB P2 cards.
Workflow was the following:
1) Shooting in 24PN @24,48,60 fps
2) Hand full card to Producer
3) He uses his Powerbook slot to copy and check the footage using FCP 5.1.Disasterously, we had a problem copying data from card #3. On day 1, the data transferred slowly from card #3(possible red herring). On day 2, we shoot a full card, even checked the last take and several takes along the way to see how the slow-mo was looking, but then the producer said that he could not load the files into FCP.
Clue #1: He goes to Import->Panasonic P2 and then nothing happens. Usually there is a pop up window, but this doesn’t happen with card #3 in the slot.
Clue #2: The CPU tells us there is only 3.94 GB on the card. It’s definitely 8 GB and we definitely shot nearly 8 GB.
Clue #3: Putting the card back into the HVX and the first 10 clips have lengths, but are gray. The last 14 clips have RED Xs on them and have no length (00:00:00:00).
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Solution #1: Shoot one more clip in the hopes that this may “uncorrupt the file structure.” I think this will just write over one of our clips and ruin any chance of saving the data.Solution #2: Run “Disk Utility” and try to repair the file structure.
Solution #3: Don’t return the card and bring it to a computer data recovery specialist.
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Question #1: What are good data recovery programs?Question #2: Any other solutions?
Thank you all very much.
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4 Replies
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You can fix clips within the camera. I don’t have a camera with me right now so I can’t tell you exactly how to do it, but put the P2 card in the cam, select a red X and menu through till you find fix clip.
i bet if you search ‘fix clip’ in this forum, you’ll find instructions.
Jeremy
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From another post:
[Jan Crittenden Livingston] “Hi John,
I confirmed with Engineering.
The broken clip should be repaired by REPAIR operation of HVX200.In VTR mode.
Display Thumbnail
Select the broken clip
Go MENU > OPERATION > REPAIR CLIPIn normal real time recording mode, the last 2 sec.
may be lost because the file saving is done every 2 sec.
In case of interval recording mode, the lost time at the end of recording will increase depending on the interval ratio.I hope this solves the problem.
Best,
JanJan Crittenden Livingston
Product Manager, DVCPRO, DVCPRO50, AG-DVX100
Panasonic Broadcast & TV Systems
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Great suggestion, sounded like it was going to work, but failed. The message was “Repair Failed.” I suggested the producer go to data recovery specialist or at least copy the whole card rather than just the visible media.
I just wonder what the problem was. Bad card? Writing glitch?
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Any luck with your corrupt clips? I’ve just had the same problem with a 4GB card!
Thanks,
Gil
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