Digital Artifacts in p2 footage

[Noah Kadner]

photobucket. Could be time to go to a service center.

Noah

[Lars Wikstrom]

Ya it was the weirdest thing. I had 8 drop outs in in the 8 minutes of video that I shot at 480i 60 /DVCPRO 50.

I have never had that ever happen in the last 20 or so shoots I have had the camera. I’m super careful and don’t throw that camera around when I shoot with it, and keep it in a safe case.

What is photobucket?

-Lars

[Lars Wikstrom]

Ahh I got it PhotoBucket.com, cool site!

Here is the clip of the guy making a sushi rool and this popped up.

https://i111.photobucket.com/albums/n159/larswik/012920.jpg

As far as I know it is not possible for this to happen writing to a 4 gig p2. I find it hard to belive that my camera needs service after only 20 gentle shoots.

-Lars

[Noah Kadner]

*Anything* is possible- it needs servicing.

-Noah

[Lars Wikstrom]

I can’t believe that thing needs serviceing already. My Sony PD-100a over the last 5 years has made wakboarding videos, been dropped, over seas and through hell and high water with no need for service after 5 years.

And now the HVX-200 needs service after shooting 20 Gift stores and Restaurants sitting in a tri-pod and recording to a P2 card so no moving parts. I find that hard to believe, But possible : )

This has to be a warrenty repair if it is a repair. Anyone now of a good repair place in Santa Barbara California?

Thanks,

-Lars

[Lars Wikstrom]

I had a hard time thinking that it could be the camera. I did a second transfer from the camera to a new computer and the artifacts were not there.

So the problem is with the laptop. What can cause that to happen? bad blocks on the hard drive or the transfer from the PCMCIA card threw that slot?

Any thoughts because I’m stumped?

thanks

-Lars

[Noah Kadner]

Anybody’s guess. Still I would recommend a servicing. Just because one car ran perfect for 20 years doesn’t mean another won’t need repair after driving for a month. It would be totally under warranty. You can find a service center through Panasonic’s site.

Noah

[Barry Green]

[doka15] “So the problem is with the laptop. What can cause that to happen? bad blocks on the hard drive or the transfer from the PCMCIA card threw that slot?”

Let me take a wild guess … you’re using a Mac, right?

This is not a P2 issue. It’s a Mac issue. Macs sometimes glitch like this when you import a card. It never happens on a PC, I’ve done hundreds of cards transferred on a PC (and subsequently imported and edited on a Mac, no glitches ever). But if you do a direct import from the card to the Mac, this can happen.

Look at your original footage back in-camera and you’ll see there are no glitches in the recording at all. It happens when you transfer the card to a Mac.

Are you importing directly on a G4 Powerbook through the slot? Or are you using the camera as a card reader and importing in PC mode by using 1394 DEVICE mode? Let’s get some evidence to Apple and Panasonic and get this fixed once and for all!

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[Lars Wikstrom]

Well I transfered to the Power Book threw the PCMCIA slot and then through firewire to the G5 tower as a test. that is odd that the power bood did that because it has had no problems on 20 or so projects with about 2 to 3 transfers to the computer per project. This was the first time and it showed up a number of times on that transfer but never before that on any other project.

It’s good to know that it’s not the camera but I was wondering if my hard drive was going bad and blocks were not writing right. The laptop is almost 4 years old now. Might be time for a new drive.

-Lars

[Uli Plank]

Or maybe just some dirt in the slots connectors?

Oh, one more thing: always have the card protected and always release it with the little symbol in the menu-bar too, not only by the icon on the desktop. I’ve experienced my PowerBook crashing when not doing so, and it might be the reason for reading errors as well.
I doubt that it’s your harddisk, since that will report I/o-errors when damaged, it won’t introduce arefacts silently.

Regards,

Uli

Author of “DVDs gestalten und produzieren”, a book on professional DVD-authoring in German.