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Bad footage
Luckily I was shooting with my 4 gig card the other day. I was hired to shoot a small infomercial for a local car wash. Like normal I poped the card out of the HVX and into my laptop and copied everything over. When it was copying over the stuff from a full card I noticed it was only copying about 2.3 gigs which seemed wrong. When it finished I tried to import the footage into FCP and nothing. I put the card back in the camera to see if they footage would play and everything had red numbers with red x’s. Nothing would play and now it no longer said it was full but it had 2 minutes left to record?
This has never happened in 2 years I have had the camera now?
What happened?
-Lars
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3 Replies
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It sounds like, you recorded at 1 format, then the camera’s recording format was changed. The camera will only play back footage that was recorded if it is currently set at the same format as the recorded footage. What that means is if you recorded at 720P, but changed the camera setting to 1080, you will not be able to play back your 720 footage. You must go to the camera menu and put the camera back in 720p mode. Each clip will appear with a red X, and you cant play it back.
As far as what happened while you were importing, not quite sure, but if you can see the clips in the camera, try and placing the camera back to the same format as the recorded format. If it plays back fine, then try and re-ingest the footage to your computer. remember that with FCP you must choose import P2…Hope that helps
George
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We ended up reshooting that 4 gig card. I did place it back in the camera to try to play back the clips but they were all white.
I do know about the different formats and only being able to watch them when your camera is set to that format, thanks.
This has never happened in the 2 years I have had the camera. I pulled the card out when it started to blink FULL and when I put it back in the camera it then said 2 minutes remaining.
I’ll just chock that up as a camera malfunction and hope it never happens again.
Thanks,
-Lars
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[George Burbano] “remember that with FCP you must choose import P2”
With the last couple versions of FCP, it’s now called Log & Transfer.
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