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  Damaged P2 Footage!

  Posted by Nick Marques on February 20, 2008 at 3:13 pm

  Sorry if you’re seeing this again. I mistakenly put this in the Premiere Pro CS3 forum and then realized it isn’t really Premiere related.

  Some months ago, we did a shoot involving 3x Panasonic HPX500 cameras recording 720p to three Focus FS-100 DTE drives. All went well. After recording, I did “Organize P2” on each drive, then connected each to a PC and copied the CONTENTS folder to a new subfolder on another large hard drive.

  Now, I’m trying to organize this footage and am using the Panasonic P2 Viewer application to change metadata. However, many clips (even from different drives) have RED X’s on the thumbnails, indicating the clips are damaged and not repairable.

  I can still double click these clips and can scrub the timelines and they look fine. So what’s wrong here?

  How can I repair these?

  And, why are they damaged in the first place?

  UPDATE:
  I think I found a fix.. I have to copy the affected CONTENTS folders back to an empty FS100 and then use the Repair Clip function for each and every clip. Sometimes, this fixes the clips, and others it fixes just some. In my last experiment, running the Repair Clip about 4 times (with Organize P2) between each fixed it. I don’t know what it’s doing.. but Repair Disk didn’t work.

  This PC has Vista on it, so I can’t use the Organizer. After several discussions with Panasonic Tech Support, none of the techs recommended P2 Organizer over the Viewer…

  Any help would be great!

  Nick Marques replied 18 years, 2 months ago 1 Member · 0 Replies
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