Fixing Damaged MXF Files

[Lin Brummett]

Hi all,
Johnny; I was wondering if the person who salvaged your MXF clips would consider taking a crack at some stuff that has turned up in our office. Your story sounds similar to ours, I have tried a number of different solutions but it seems that all but the audio might be lost. We have the better part of six days worth of a two camera shoot that is corrupted and has come home to roost. The shoot was in Hawaii at a one off event.

The short story is that the media played back fine in the camera, ingest was attempted via FCP 7 log and transfer but would crash FCP (on multiple laptops). The P2 cards needed to be cleared for further use so I advised the field crew to copy the entire contents of each card over to the drive and we would salvage things back at the office. Apparently something went wrong in the copy process as well because the footage in the copied folders is damaged. What P2 cards could be spared from the Hawaii shoot were brought back and things ingested fine here on an iMac and Mac Pro.

Problems were narrowed to a new untried brand of drives (due to current drive shortage) or fire wire connection or MacBook Pro. We are now thinking it might be the related to the MacBook Pro but as I said this is a long story and my problem exists regardless.

I would appreciate any guidance to fix our problem or directions to someone we could pay to bring this stuff back to life. I can provide a sample MXF folder if there is interest.

Thanks so much.

Lin Brummett
Warm Springs Productions
http://www.warmsprings.tv

[Vasilis Flouris]

Hello,
And i have a problem with p2 files from bad transfer from PC laptop to mac disk…
Image with problem is here 5544_screenshot20120927at12.33.49…png.zip