P2 artifacts

[Shane Ross]

Artifacts on the footage…that is typically caused by dirt either in the card or in the card slot. Some of the holes on the cards blocked by dirt, or the connectors have dirt. Since small bits of information are allocated to each pin, when a pin or two is dirty, then those sections have artifacts. CLEAN the cards and the camera slots with canned air. Make sure they are clean and dirt free.

Can you rid of the artifacts once they are recorded? Nope, sorry. Cannot. Even if you did the proper P2 backup then import procedure. That is what is recorded on the card. It is like a dirty playhead on a camera…it records that image onto the tape.

Shane

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[Connie Bottinelli]

Shane, I suspected possible dirt from reading a post somewhere yesterday. Can of air. Tomorrow. Fingers crossed.
Thanks,
Connie

[Connie Bottinelli]

Helmut,
I’m picking up an SD card tomorrow… along with a can of air.

Thanks for the reply.
Connie

[Shane Ross]

This will only fix FUTURE shoots. The one that you have, is done. Recorded onto the card that way…so nothing to be done.

If you posted a pic I could be sure that was the issue. If it is a video with like 4-8 equally spaced dots of artifacts, I’d know this is the issue.

Shane

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[Connie Bottinelli]

Thanks for the offer, Shane. Please tell me how to post a frame of it.
Connie

[Shane Ross]

Well, look at the top of the area that you type in. There is B I U…a string of icons. Third from the RIGHT is UPLOAD IMAGE. Click on that.

Shane

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[Connie Bottinelli]

Shane,

The artifacts appear every 8 seconds for 19 frames.

Just to recap:
– newly formatted cards (with previous perfect video) were recorded on with hvx200 720p 24fps 1/48
– checking footage on playback, through HVX200, showed “snow” over entire footage
– p2 cards were off loaded as mxf files to an external HD
– raw footage was then imported into FCP through L&T
– FCP shows the artifacts appearing as above – every 8 sec for 19 frames – all other parts of footage OK

Connie

[Shane Ross]

Dang…that’s bad. I would still suspect a dirty card or connection. Nothing to be done with this footage, but you can clean the connections and shoot some test footage.

I feel for you. I have had some bad hits on tape, and some on P2, but this is pretty bad.

Shane

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[Connie Bottinelli]

Shane,
So, can I tell you the sinking feeling I got when I read, “Dang…that’s bad.”

Got a can of compressed air – hit inside the slots from every direction – same on cards – recorded – no change. Going to try it a 3rd time later.

I see that 4.10.00 firmware is the latest for the hvx200. I have 4.06.00. Is that a possible cause? Going to update that tonight.

Would like to try all possibilities before biting the bullet for servicing on something I could have corrected.
Connie

[Shane Ross]

You blew canned air on this and it STILL records that? Do you have multiple cards to try? If this is still there, I’d think it is time for the Panasonic Service Center.

Shane

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