Don Greening
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I doubt that anyone will have a direct response to your GL2 troubles unless it’s an inherent problem with these cameras, and I’ve never heard of this to be the case. Other than checking to make sure the battery connection pins at the back of the camera are still spring loaded and in generally in good condition I would advise that the GL2 be taken to an authorized Canon repair facility. It’s not much good to you if you can’t depend on it to stay on and recording when you need it to be.
– Don
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[Ruby Gold] “One other question–earlier in the shoot, as I’d pan slowly across one painting, there seemed to be the kind of effect you see if you pan or look across a wire screen (like on a screen door), that was moving through the frame as I tried to shoot the painting. This didn’t occur on any of the other paintings. Any thoughts on what may have been causing that?”
This is called a moir
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If you knowingly formatted your LaCie in FAT32 binary (Mac/PC formatting) then it should be usable on a windows machine as well as the Mac. Got any friends with a windows machine you can impose upon? I have no experience with a FAT32 formatted drive hooked up to a Mac, so I’m out of ideas with regard to this. Someone else will have to jump in here and help out.
Um, you could always try Apple’s own disc utility and see if it can recognize the files contained on your FW drive. After all, it’s able to format drives in FAT32 as well as the Mac native formatting as far as I know. You’ll find the program in the Applications folder/Utilies/Disk Utility. It might be worth a shot.
– Don
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Katherine,
I’m assuming that when you bought your drive that you reformatted it in Mac OS Extended (aka HFS+) before you started using it. The next step is to find out if your problem may be a corrupt directory on the LaCie drive. If you don’t have a copy of DiskWarrior you should choose to buy it and run the program. It will tell you the state of the directory and will build a completely new one if required, instead of trying to fix the existing one like lesser utility programs will try to do.
– Don
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Thanks Rene for taking the time to post. I’ll let her know about it.
– Don
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The shakey ‘image’ you’re referring to: is this a video or a still image problem?
– Don
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Exellent thought, Craig. I don’t know if she has them set up that way but I’ll ask her about it tomorrow.
– Don
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Thanks Curtis. I’ll let her know.
– Don
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Seamus,
Not that I’ve ever done it, but I’ve heard that the proper way to disconnect a FW drive before shutdown is to “eject it”. That is, dragging the drive’s desktop icon to the trash, then shutting down your Mac and restarting. Unless someone has a better plan. If that fails I would try your drive on another Mac if possible to see if it does the same thing.
You always try contacting LaCie to find out what they recommend you do. Also make sure the FW cable you’re using is connected properly and is actually working.
– Don
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The problem is the 2 interlaced fields in your video. Use the flicker filter within FCP. It can be set from mild to wild. Just experiment and see what setting works best for your particular slo-mo speed…….on a broadcast monitor. If you don’t have one just use a TV.
– Don