Graham Sykes
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How do you delete your footage once you are ready to re-use the card? My first guess is that the card hasn’t been formatted through the camera in a while.
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Well, I just loaded the original files back onto a card and played back through the camera. No audio and video playback is fine. This leads me to think there must have been a problem during shooting. It makes sense looking at the evidence but doesn’t square up with my memory of the shoot. Granted, when video says one thing and my “memory” says another, I tend to doubt my memory.
But to shoot a program over an hour long with headphones on the entire time listening in and watching the meters do their job?? Watching the footage I can recall moments when I was listening and watching when my meters almost pegged because of feedback from the PA system or hearing the presenters ice in his glass tinkling around when he took a drink over the LAV and the cross talk from the table of people sitting a few feet in front of me being picked up by the shotgun mic. Maybe I imagined all that but that seems just as unlikely…Not sure what my next move is.
I agree that there shouldn’t be any reason to shoot over a card that hasn’t been taken through post. I have had others go through this experience and I thought I had learned from them. 4 cards with 5 assignments in a row means that something has to get bumped. Naturally, it had to be the one I am having issues with. I don’t hold the purse strings here and I lobbied for us to have 4 cards instead of the single card we started with (small agency with even smaller video production dept….me) so maybe now this will come as another nice reminder to my boss. -
Not quite sure what you mean by “Play through the tape” do you mean through the camera? That was my first instinct. Find the original card, play through camera and see if audio is present.
I have the card that contained the event in question but I had already formatted it and shot an interview on top of it. That being said, I do not just save the QT ingest files but rather take the entire file hierarchy (DCIM, etc, etc) and transfer that to a separate HD on my machine and then log and transfer from that.
When I am done I have the original contents of the card along with the QT ingest files for backup. So in essence, I feel that I have the originals (though my transfer method from card to HD is click and drag and not some bit by bit x-fer software) which I can revisit with the log and transfer process at any time.
That is a good suggestion about checking the audio portion of the Log and transfer dialog and I will do that. I thought my settings may have been incorrect so I visited another projects original files to play back through log and transfer and they all had audio..including the interview I shot later that day and several others from over the weekend. Is there something I can look at within the original cards fire hierarchy to determine if I am truly out of luck?Thank you for your response. It is very much appreciated and I will follow up on your suggestions.
EDIT: I started a recover process on the card that had been written over in the event that I might be able to recover something. Not sure how that will differ from the original files I copied from the SD but I am gonna try.
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DISCO!
“Scene files”A googling I shall go.
Thank you.
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It’s worth taking a shot. Thank you very much.
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Agreed. Handbrake is defiantly not my first choice when it comes to extracting from a video TS folder but I really didn’t have much of a choice. On a side note, do you are anybody else know if streamclip will work on a machine that is running the current version of QT (10.0 I think it is) but has not been upgraded to pro? CAN it be upgraded to pro? I don’t see any options to register it when I look. Not that I can without being connected to the net but if I can get streamclip to work on the other machine I could just re-extract from the original disc.
These problems stem from the fact that the work machine is brand spanking new and doesn’t have all the plugins and upgrades yet which are causing most if not all of my problems. I was a bit surprised to not find any options to go to pro on QT….yet.
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Do you own flash?
If I remember right, Flash offers the ability to add a hyperlink to either an individual frame in either a solid or transparent form or a custom object such as a watermark or logo. If you own flash then I would suggest looking into that. My .2 -
I hear you on the ipod devices.
Price point isn’t terrible for the FR-2LE even though it is a little more than what I was expecting (no surprise there!) but I do like the Zoom H4n’s ability to accept cards larger than 1GB. I will be taking a hard look at both of these items. Thank you for the great lead. -
Hello Jan,
Thank you for the thoughtful suggestion. I did as you instructed but found that Panasonic does not support anything earlier than an Intel based Mac for the P2CMS. Perhaps when our studio upgrades in the future we will take advantage of the free software. Until then, I will try to find another way to have a secure transfer method.
Regards,
Graham Sykes
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Huh….Well, I was able to access the MXF files via the lite version of mxf4mac. I do have a complaint/question. If I understand this correctly, I now have to shell out over a hundred bucks to solve a problem that I didn’t have anything to do with? I am not saying that it wasn’t operator error. Who knows. I could have dragged the Contents and lastclip.txt files to the external HD and then somehow accessed the contents folder, dragged four out of the six enclosed folders to the trash and emptied the trash by accident but it doesn’t seem very likely. I will now have to check the folders on every download. What happens when/if the contents of one of the folders is missing? Should I have to count the clips as they are shot and compare that to the contents of the folders too? O.K. this is turning into a rant. Maybe Panasonic has an answer? Has anybody else had this experience? Sorry for the rantyness but when does the babysitting end? Ugg.