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lost footage need emergency help
ok, so here’s the deal
earlier today, i was capturing and finalcut found a timecode brake, so it stalled out and aborted the capture, the footage going up to the eddit was then recorded over (do to lack of use of an endsearch) well, i need the footage just before the timecodebrake, it was a oneshot deal, and we can’t go back and record it in the time we had.my question, is this:
since it was captured, but the capture aborted (andthere by no clip was “made” in finalcut, is that footage, somewhere?
thanks for any help.
Aaron Zander-Student edditor
If it’s out there and it does somethign to something,
teach me how to use it
Powerbook g4 1.5 GHz (it might not be big, but i can take it on set
fcp 5, ae 6.5pro adobe cs2 -
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Aaron,
The words edit and editor each have just one “d”.
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i apologise, im bad with spelling, infact, reallybad, like 98percentile in california standard tests across the board, except a 22percentile in spelling, editing (or edditing as i like to type) is just a bad habbit,
but thanks for the spelling pointers (i tend to catchit on here)
Aaron Zander-Student edditor
If it’s out there and it does somethign to something,
teach me how to use it
Powerbook g4 1.5 GHz (it might not be big, but i can take it on set
fcp 5, ae 6.5pro adobe cs2 -
If you abort then FCP does not save the file. Try searching your capture scratch folder though or tap the clipname into spotlight.
Peter
Editing the World Championship Snooker
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Ouch,
It isn’t very likely that FCP keps the clip if the capture was aborted.
As was said before, check your capture scratch.
Also, another word of advice, don’t recycle tapes. Especially if you are shooting MiniDV. That’s just asking for dropped frames, unfortunetely.
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ouch, i was afraid you were all going to say that, i was just praying for some sort of, “oh yea, just go here here and here, and all your aborted footage will be saved”
oh well one can dream can’t he, we try not to recycle tapes, but we ran out of good tapes at that point, miles away from any consumer electronics store, a sad day for me, o well.
thanksguys, i think i just died a little inside, but it’s ok.
-AaronAaron Zander-Student edditor
If it’s out there and it does somethign to something,
teach me how to use it
Powerbook g4 1.5 GHz (it might not be big, but i can take it on set
fcp 5, ae 6.5pro adobe cs2 -
Don’t be so upset! It’s good practical experience. You can take something away from it :-p
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