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P2 Christmas Mystery
I’ve been using P2 pretty successfully for a few months until I had a rather large incident happen, which I really don’t understand — maybe you guys can help.
I’m shooting with a Panasonic HPX 2000 — have a 5 slot Panasonic card reader — have a rather large Maxx Digital drive set up (Raid 5), and am backing up everything with a Lacie 1.2 TB drive. I’m using Shotput Pro to offload and backup the footage, have an IO-HD, and a modern Mac Tower with 10.5 OS.
I seem to have lost about 15 minutes of material. The P2 card froze up during the offloading process — I thought I was in the clear because I was able to generate some Proxy files (Proxy Mill app.), but the Proxy files were wonky — audio and video out of sync — and when I finally tried to use log and transfer to bring the files into my FCP project, they would not load. The back up version of the files was also not available to me — this makes me think their was some sort of corruption that took place in the field during the recording process.
Anybody have an idea of what happened? If the recording was faulty, shouldn’t I have received a warning in the camera’s viewfinder??
Thanks.
Ken
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Do you still have the card? With the footage on it? Put that back into the camera and use the REPAIR feature if you do.
Shane
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It is one of many cards that I own — I figured just by re-initializing the card it would be OK.
Now you’ve got me worried….
Shawn, does this kind of occurrence happen often in the world of tapeless acquisition??
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[Ken Zukin] ” figured just by re-initializing the card it would be OK. “
So you erased the card, and all the footage…the footage that was incomplete…that was on it? Well…that’s not good. Now you can’t repair the footage. There has to be tools for getting the footage back onto a P2 card…I know of one in beta now.
Ooo…found this in a Cow thread…try it:
https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/193/871887#871891
Then use the repair function.
[Ken Zukin] “Shawn”
Now…I can understand people mistakenly calling me this verbally… mentally your head thinks SHAWN (or SEAN) because SHANE is uncommon. I am used to it. But when it is WRITTEN? Duuuude. Just kidding, I’m used to this…
[Ken Zukin] ” does this kind of occurrence happen often in the world of tapeless acquisition?? “
No, not often. Not unheard of, but not common. Tape acquisition isn’t rock solid either, BTW…
https://lfhd.net/2009/12/23/yeah-tapes-are-infallible-right/Shane
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I had no idea about any of this — I just blindly assumed that most P2-related problems occurred in the post-production arena — not while recording in the field. So then, is “repair” a camera-based feature?
Thanks much, Shamus, and have a nice holiday!!! (joke)
Ken
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Yes, the REPAIR feature is a camera feature. Made for things like the battery dying, or the AC source being cut off, or the card being yanked out mid recording…stuff like that.
Shane
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