Dave Neyman
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My experience is that the SD is better in the HXV. I do agree with Jeremy about spending a little more. That way you can upgrade with minimal expense when you are ready. The HD really is far superior.
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It shouldn’t matter. I’ve had the camera in pretty cold climates doing skiing and such and it performed great. I know that they used these cameras when they first came out for sled dog racing in very cold climates. In very hot weather where the camera is fixed I tend to keep it covered to avoid getting too hot.
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You could try running DataRescue II but like Shane says, the chances are slim. Even if you recovered the individual files by running DataRescue II it would be very difficult to get all the files back in the right place to have them do any good. Unfortunately, it looks like you should plan a reshoot.
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Sounds like this could be a problem with the Duel/Imagine Products combination. Try using Shotput or even go back to transferring the files via to finder to a hard drive and then verifying them.
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It’s a mystery then. I’ve never had that happen so I guess I won’t be much help. Sorry
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I’m assuming that you have them stored on some sort of hard drive. Is the drive formatted for Mac or FAT32? It should be formatted for Mac. This could be part of then problem.
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You probably seen the thread from a few days ago. There are some people who love the firestore and have had no problems with it. I believe Christopher is one of them who has had great luck with it. You, unfortunately, are one of the ones who has had problems with it. I do believe the consensus is the people have fewer problems with the P2 cards. I have had not one problem with over a dozen cards that I have used for over a year now (I hope I’m not in for it now as I am shooting in the morning). My feeling is that regardless of the cost per GB, the P2 card is cheaper than a reshoot.
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Christopher I think you are one of the lucky ones that has had no problems. Most people I know who have use firestores have had a problem that resulted in significant data loss. At that point the cost per GB is no longer a factor when you consider the cost of a reshoot. There are far fewer problems reported on P2 cards which is why I would have to agree with Noah.
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The P2 cards are actually made of of separate 4GB drive connected by a mini raid controller in the card. The 16 GB is 4 drives and the 32 GB is 8. They will show up as separate clips that span across different drives until they are all loaded in to the log and transfer window in FCP at which point they are reconnected. Hope that makes sense.
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Thanks John for bringing this to light. I also did research on my system and found out the same thing. If one drive fails the other can be accessed by putting it in any enclosure and will be treated as any other drive. In my case I install my drives on trays that are then put in the raid 1 system. Once the data is mirrored on both drives, I archive one of the drives and put the other drive into a single drive reader to import the media into FCP and then put the quick time files on yet another drive. recently I had one drive go bad. I immediately went to the back up drive, made another copy of that, and then imported the media into FCP without a problem.
I stand by my comment that using a mirrored raid system is the best and most cost effective way to handle the P2 workflow.