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A days work lost? CF card with 0kB .movs
Hi,
A guy at work came back from a days shot and the CF card was empty…
There where many files listed in Finder – however they where 0kB all of them.
When we take the cf card form the card reader and back into the camera – it doesn’t discover any movies.
We know the camera recorded – because he looked at the movies on the camera after he had recorded some of them.
We have a Canon eos 5Dmark 2 and we use 16GB Transcend cards.Have you any idea how to prevent this form happening again?
Have any of you encountered something like this?
Any recommendations to data recovery programs/procedures?Thank You.
Best regards
Andreas -
4 Replies
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The card is the major suspect.Get a better card like sandisk. for recorvery you may check https://www.aeroquartet.com I used them once and they are good especially with xdcam footage.
Good luckSpirit
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I’m really sorry for you it must be very disappointing. My solution stems back to being a stock photographer and having $ invested in a shoot.
I use small capacity cards and change them out regularly during a shoot as I fill them up. I have 4GB and 8GB and lots of them.
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especially since the cameras cannot record more than 4 gb at a time. Of course more cards mean more things to lose.
You really have to have a DIT on major shoot or any real shoot. You have to be dumping to a computer and checking. Until you have the files on a drive (2 really) you don’t have anything.
Tapeless has cost a lot of people a lot of money. I lost $15K because I had an innocent camera setting wrong and the files on the Firestore where unless, I lost 2 comedy shows that I filmed on a cruise ship. Had to pay to reshot the entire thing.
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[Michael Sacci] “I lost $15K because I had an innocent camera setting wrong and the files on the Firestore where unless, I lost 2 comedy shows that I filmed on a cruise ship. Had to pay to reshot the entire thing.”
Oh my God! And you survived it???
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