[Jeff Petersen]

i’m happy to report-that although it cost me some money-i was able to retrieve my files-and all look just right so far. the footage recovered was well worth the price of the software-as was being able to continue working on New things instead of dealing with this for over a day-

I had a great customer experience with the tech support at Prosoft, the makers of Data Rescue 3. Mike, the support guy had me send him 3 other files that came out of my 7D and he was able to delete them and recover them. and Low and Behold–so was i.

Not only did i get good technical service-Even before i had purchased the software-Mike also called me back direct and stayed after his regular work hours to make sure that he had finished checking this out for me. That is the kind of person/company that i actually Like to support by buying their software.

in the end it has to work though-and i was very impressed with the program overall. i was glad he talked me through some specific scanning and retrieving preferences-to make sure my larger files were seen. you had to set the file size limit to something other than the default and it was not a number i would have guessed. you have to set it for 0 to make No limitations to the file size. i may have been quite frustrated with that, had he not informed me of it.

my favorite feature of the software in particular was the “File IQ” feature. with this you can import 5 or so files of the same format you are looking for and it will setup a special user search parameter based on those files. Not only did it find my files based on that data, but it also had them all identified and sorted into their own File folder section-again-based on the custom files i entered. Would it have found them without that-Probably-but it was pretty cool finding them based on that for this particular job.

the software costs about $100 to unlock the demo that you can get now. The demo let’s you see what it appears to have found on your drive, but the Preview feature did not work on my larger files in Demo mode. Most of the previews worked just fine after i purchased the software though. it will also let you keep your initial scan too, so you don’t have to start the process all over again once you pay. i’m sure there are many other neat features i have yet to discover on this program, but right now the fact that it seems to have worked is the best one.
thanks for all the help.

check out Data Rescue 3 at Prosoftengineering.com

Jeff Petersen

[Jeff Petersen]

thanks again Jonathan-i have been investigating PhotoRec as well. My experience in the terminal window is minimal, so i had a hard time understanding what it all meant-and in fact still can’t identify all of my different drives from the listed choices (they all look the same to me without my naming conventions)…However, i followed the “how to” steps from the author step by step, And Was able to identify the small CF card from the choices, so i ran the software on that.

my results were…interesting…i was able to recover a Large number of my files Perfectly…But Not All. Unfortunately, the ones i was able to recover, i didn’t need. The ones i needed…which were all created on the same day, same camera, all handled exactly the same…were not recovered. I’m thinking that perhaps there may be a files size limitation to that program??? i have not yet been able to compare all the files exactly yet, since that was very late last night–and i have to Make new stuff during the day today, but that will be what i check into next.

i Know that the files i need were quite large-(Multiple GB Interview sessions) so that very well might be what limited the success of that program. i have a few other recovery software programs in demo mode that i’m investigating in the background too. Whatever i find out i’ll post here to perhaps help someone else in the future.

thanks again for your time and brain power on this.
jeff

Jeff Petersen

[Jeff Petersen]

thanks for responding jonathan. After i initially saved the files off of the CF card and checked that they were copied onto the HD i deleted them off of the CF card. i do video as my job so i have to use those cards almost as soon as they are done being downloaded. i had filled 2-32Gig and 2 8Gig on that shoot last night…so once they are on the HD i deleted the cards. Nothing has been written to them yet-since i made my error this morning. Unless CF cards work way differently then i understand-i thought that deleting them just tells the card that that space is free to write in now. i don’t think it writes over it unless you format or take new pictures or video.

my same thinking was being applied to the HD i was using. right after seeing that i had thrown away the wrong files i stopped writing to that disk and have only been trying to recover to a separate disk.

there was no time for time machine to have jumped in on this. i do use it and it works well in most situations. unfortunately i was basically still in the process of “getting the data” when i accidently deleted the wrong files. (i was making space available for my converting the files to ProRes).

the files themselves-not having been deleted do come up normally as .mov-i have no idea why they are appearing to file recovery as .jpg??

All that said, i’ll check out the link you suggested and maybe someone has some of those answers.
thanks,
jp

[Jeff Petersen]

thanks Uli,
so it is referring to the size of the Chip? i didn’t even know what it was referring to.

Since you said you got good tracking on your HVX footage can i ask you your camera settings in the Boujou camera dialogue? My footage always imports looking “Squished”. Not proper aspect somehow, but i don’t know how to change it.

The default camera settings that boujou opens for me when i import a 720p clip is/are:

Film Back- Width .79213 and Height .59349 (Units: inches)
Resolution: 985×738 (This is not changeable in this window. it seems like this would fix my problem but i can’t find where to adjust it).
Ratio: 1.3347 (also can’t find where to adjust)
Pixel Aspect: 1
Frame Rate: 24
Lens Squeeze ratio: 1

any help would be much appreciated.
thanks,
jeff

[Jeff Petersen]

thanks Uli,
so it is referring to the size of the Chip? i didn’t even know what it was referring to.

Since you said you got good tracking on your HVX footage can i ask you your camera settings in the Boujou camera dialogue? My footage always imports looking “Squished”. Not proper aspect somehow, but i don’t know how to change it.

The default camera settings that boujou opens for me when i import a 720p clip is/are:

Film Back- Width .79213 and Height .59349 (Units: inches)
Resolution: 985×738 (This is not changeable in this window. it seems like this would fix my problem but i can’t find where to adjust it).
Ratio: 1.3347 (also can’t find where to adjust)
Pixel Aspect: 1
Frame Rate: 24
Lens Squeeze ratio: 1

any help would be much appreciated.
thanks,
jeff

[Jeff Petersen]

thanks guys. i watched your tutorial Shane, and then followed all of your advice. it once again worked as before with the New project. that sure is a wierd bug.

It also took me a while to figure out what i was doing wrong trying to get the slow mo to actually look slow mo. I was setting my “Recording Setup” “Rec Format” from 720P/24P to 720P/60P (i don’t use PN because i have FS100 and it doesn’t do that) thinking that was setting the frame rate to the Slow mo mode after i converted it-it never looked slow mo. Wellllll, now it seems like i know how to set it, but still don’t really understand “WHY”. If i always want 24P why would i ever then choose the 720P/60P in the recording setup? Getting it to work is at least the most important right?

So, as i understand it, i can keep the 720P/24P “Rec Format”, But then change the “Frame Rate” in the “Scene File” to 60Frames. Then import and do the frame rate converter as described above-Right? It seems i should always select Delete Duplicate frames-Right?

thanks for any other info or clarrifications-i really appreciate what you have already provided.
Jeff

[Jeff Petersen]

Hi Carolyn,
i have had lots of difficulty setting up renderfarms on my macs. i have a very similar group of computers that you have. i’m going to study your post a little more, but do you think you could offer me some setup tips if i give you some more details (network settings, AE settings, workflow tips). i’m basically sitting on an ethernet network with a Quad G5, 3Dual G4s, and my G4 powerbook so far, but i have had No success setting this up. And i really really want to! I own AE prod 7.
thanks for any help,
Jeff Petersen
jpetersen@gccwired.com

[Jeff Petersen]

But how do you actually use the script? it’s not an expression, and it’s huge, what parts work where?? i tried to read through it for clues, but i’m at a loss.
thanks for any help,
Jeff

[Jeff Petersen]

But how do you actually use the script? it’s not an expression, and it’s huge, what parts work where?? i tried to read through it for clues, but i’m at a loss.
thanks for any help,
Jeff

[Jeff Petersen]

i looked through this script and am not sure how to use it. Did you actually like it Mylenium or were you joking? How do you use a script like this in AE? i was expecting it to be some kind of expression that i could copy and place somewhere. i didn’t even know AE had a place for scripts like this. i just recently had the same problem trying to scale some masks with just tracking data-hence my keen interest.
Jeff Petersen