Dean Sensui
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[Alister Chapman] “If you get salt water contamination you should rinse the object with a dilute mix of distilled water and vinegar.”
Vinegar is acetic acid, which is also corrosive.
I’d recommend is plain water or distilled water. You could also flush it with a standard solution of “Salt Away”. Lots of fishermen and boaters here use it and it prevents equipment from being damaged by salt.
The alcohol comes after all the salt has been thoroughly flushed, and is intended to help drive out water. It will minimize the amount of time the card and connectors are kept wet. The alcohol never mixes with the salt so that’s not a concern.
Follow up with DeoxIT contact cleaner and then a treatment with DeoxIT Shield.
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After rinsing in distilled water you could follow up with a rinse in isopropyl alcohol, something that’s commonly used to clean video heads and other sensitive electronics.
The alcohol will displace the water and get it to dry out faster.
Perhaps spray the contacts with an electronic contact cleaner afterward.
There are stories of photographers who sent their compact flash cards through the laundry without ill effect.
Try doing THAT with videotape! 🙂
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[rich krysz] “Can’t you just look at your original media files on your capture scratch??
Get out of FCP…go to your capture scratch and look for the media. Play them). see how they look like.”
I think he did:
“I opened the original footage outside of FCP and found to my horror that indeed the letterboxing effect had been permanently applied to one of four rolls.”
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You might want to go to an Apple Store. My business partner was able to work a slight business discount with a manager which saved us a few hundred bucks. That money went toward getting additional RAM.
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[Ed Sully] “Of course hindsight is 20/20 and i should have made a copy, but i have not seen the likes of this on any other NLE for the 10 years i have been working on them, so i never saw a reason to do a backup.”
There’s no excuse for not having a backup. Just like there’s no excuse for not wearing a seatbelt, not installing a smoke detector or not wearing a helmet while cycling.
I’ve owned a boat for more than 20 years. Never had a problem. Yet I always wear an inflatable personal floatation device along with a GPS-integrated personal locator beacon. On my belt is a waterproof cell phone and a knife. It only takes one bad incident to ruin your day, and without the right gear, it could end up being your last.
Backups allow you to recover from the unexpected. If you’ve been working with NLE’s for 10 years (I’ve been doing this for 11 years on Media 100 and FCP), then backups should have been a standard operating procedure. Even if you avoid overwriting the files, there’s still the possibility of the drive crashing for any number of reasons.
My mantra is: it’s better to have it and not need it, than need it and not have it.
Be thankful you have your original film footage to fall back to. In that sense, it’s your backup. Just less convenient and more expensive than having a copy on another hard drive.
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[Ed Sully] “After getting my footage back from telecine, i spent a few days breaking it up”
BTW, is the media file now broken up into short clips, or is it still a single, unbroken file?
If it’s cut up then the foulup was something that doesn’t happen with FCP. Cutting up a clip in FCP doesn’t cut apart the original media file. Instead, each clip within the sequence merely points to various in and out points along the contiguous media file.
If your original media file is now cut up into separate pieces, then your problem is due to something more than simple editing from within FCP.
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Just curious: how much experience do you have with FCP?
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Regarding legal recourse, an attorney is about $300/hour. Maybe more. It’ll take several hours to consult with an attorney, gather all the required evidence and file a case. Even then it might get tossed out of court if a judge decides that you didn’t take normal precautions to protect your source material.
Compare all that — along with the usual costs of delay — to the cost of re-digitizing the film.
Better to consult with the telecine service and see if a deal can be worked out, or to determine if they might have made a mistake and inadvertently applied a mask to the film transfer.
Hope it works out OK for you.
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Sounds like you worked on the originals instead of making duplicates and working with those.
Whether the material originates from a camera or a scanner, one should always archive the source material first, then work on copies. That way there’s always something to go back to.
And Shane is right. There’s no way for FCP to foul up the original media unless you had FCP export a modified version of the material on the sequence, and over-wrote the original media with the same names. However, that’s also unlikely as FCP doesn’t allow one to overwrite files that are in-use within FCP.
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Ken…
Nice footage of the flow going into the sea. I have yet to see that in person.
For the time being I’m using a BTK system to compensate for boat pitch and roll: Bend The Knees. It works OK for some of the shooting if there’s no telephoto work involved. Otherwise it’s not stable enough.
I’m planning to rent a KS-8 and test it. My shoulder mount is crude by comparison and, because I depend on the camera’s eyepiece for framing and focusing, it puts all of the weight forward of the shoulder, making it tough to hold up over time.
Often I’ll use a monopod to help support the weight.
How are you monitoring your shots? With the LCD?
Next time I’m out in Hilo I should try to get in contact with you. I was just there last week for an overnight. A few more trips planned now that the ulua are supposed to be running.
On a totally off-topic point, have you guys tried dropping lines in the vicinity of the flow? I heard that fish bite like crazy there. Use whole akule or opelu as bait.
Aloha,
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