Lin Brummett
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I look into the Cow forums just to see what Bob has to say, it usually makes my day and I come away smarter for the experience.
Search Bob Zellin in the forums and he will tell you of every workable option out there and why any other solution won’t work. Believe it.
Lin Brummett
Warm Springs Productions
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Perfect, I will look into this right now. Thanks so much Shane.
Lin Brummett
Warm Springs Productions
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Bob speaks the truth. My two cents worth would be to look hard at the support you get with the product, you will need it at some point usually when you can least afford to be down. We have Facilis and their support rocks.
Lin Brummett
Warm Springs Productions
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Name length varies but they are generally 6-10 characters
Lin Brummett
Warm Springs Productions
http://www.warmsprings.tv -
Hi all,
Johnny; I was wondering if the person who salvaged your MXF clips would consider taking a crack at some stuff that has turned up in our office. Your story sounds similar to ours, I have tried a number of different solutions but it seems that all but the audio might be lost. We have the better part of six days worth of a two camera shoot that is corrupted and has come home to roost. The shoot was in Hawaii at a one off event.The short story is that the media played back fine in the camera, ingest was attempted via FCP 7 log and transfer but would crash FCP (on multiple laptops). The P2 cards needed to be cleared for further use so I advised the field crew to copy the entire contents of each card over to the drive and we would salvage things back at the office. Apparently something went wrong in the copy process as well because the footage in the copied folders is damaged. What P2 cards could be spared from the Hawaii shoot were brought back and things ingested fine here on an iMac and Mac Pro.
Problems were narrowed to a new untried brand of drives (due to current drive shortage) or fire wire connection or MacBook Pro. We are now thinking it might be the related to the MacBook Pro but as I said this is a long story and my problem exists regardless.
I would appreciate any guidance to fix our problem or directions to someone we could pay to bring this stuff back to life. I can provide a sample MXF folder if there is interest.
Thanks so much.
Lin Brummett
Warm Springs Productions
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Since the inception of our company over two years ago we have been constantly searching for the right cost effective method to archive all of our P-2 and before/beyond media. Last April we finally settled on a package that consists of a Quantum Scalar i40 LTO4 tape library and Retrospect 8.0 Single Server backup software running on one of our Mac Pro edit stations. We just established an ingest/backup station that we plan on moving the unit on to.
Not including the Mac Pro, total cost including cables and ATTO Express SAS H380 card came in just under $8k. We had some fits and starts getting the system up and going but once we resigned ourselves to the fact that Retrospect support is poor at best and started figuring things out for ourselves the operation has worked very smoothly. I don’t mean to say that the people at Retrospect don’t want to be helpful, it’s just that the product changed ownership several times right after we purchased it and no one on the support side seemed to know much about the product. Sadly, Retrospect seems to be the only product that would run on a Mac and was supported by Quantum. Anyway, once we figured out the pitfalls of the process, the system has been rolling along quite well since May.
The beauty of the system is that it is capable of holding 25 LTO tapes at a time. Once you have established your media set (a quantity of LTO tapes needed to store all your material in a backup session) you can connect multiple hard drives and set the system in motion to work unsupervised over the weekend without anyone having to drop by to change tapes. Once you get the procedural workflow down it is easy to operate.
The system is networkable and seems to have most of the benefits of the CacheA in some form. We have found it most beneficial to our workflow to keep the unit connected locally. It is somewhat noisy when in operation as was described about the CacheA. The physical size is big, it is 32″ deep and 19″ wide.
Right now we have it sitting on a file cabinet next to the desk.Not ever having had anything to do with backup storage before this, the process overall has been fairly painless and something I am happy to recommend to others.
There are many other details I can share if anyone is interested.
Happy New Year!
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Has anyone found a solution to this issue? We primarily shoot on P2 so digitize is not something we do much of but I just got 11 HDCAM tapes of aerial footage and I am experiencing quite an number of phantom timecode breaks on shots where there aren’t breaks. We are capturing to a local external hard drive connected via FW 800, house sync is going to the Kona 3 card and Sony HDW 1800 deck.
Thanks for the help.
Lin Brummett
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We have had mixed luck with LaCie support but the reliability and performance of the drives seem to keep declining. We started with GRaid, started using LaCie because of cost but after a number of failures are now solidly back in the GRaid camp. I get the feeling that the LaCie model is quantity over quality, sell ’em cheap and replace the whole thing if it breaks, it’s the user’s problem if they didn’t have the foresight to back up their stuff minutes before the failure occurred.
We have 40 plus GRaids and with the exception of some fan problems on the first few we purchased they have been problem free.
BTW, I was the one who relayed to Deborah the drive in the freezer trick and it did once work for us, but that was in a time and place long ago and not with a LaCie drive.
Glad you got your problem resolved.
Lin Brummett
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It did not work. I was hoping it was a damaged controller but I had the same problem in the new case. I ended up just sending the drive into LaCie for a warranty replacement but no salvage.
FYI, prior to pulling drives out of their cases and doing the swap I got the blessing from LaCie support to do so and maintain my warranties on the drives. They did stipulate that the case I swapped into was the identical model and I had to provide serial numbers to verify.
While I had the drives out of their cases I connected each drive individually to an external case just to see if the computer would recognize each drive. It saw one but not the other. At that point I threw in the towel, buttoned everything back up and sent the bad unit in. I didn’t expect to recover anything from either drive since they are stripped together but I wanted to exhaust all hope of an affordable recovery before admitting defeat.
Fortunately I did have all my media backed up so all I had to do was spend a day finding all my still images, graphic elements, etc. that were were in various file cabinets around the office. These weren’t backed up because i was accumulating them as I worked on the project with the plan of backing the rest up at the end. I was able to retrieve my timeline from the autosave vault on a different drive.
I wish I had good news for you but not in this case. Sorry.
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Swing and a miss. I actually tried it several times with no LaCie love.
I just talked to another friend and I think since the drives are still spinning we are going to swap the drives into another LaCie case and see if that works. He claims he had a similar problem and doing the swap allowed him to salvage the media. This is probably what the clean room guys do for quadruple the cost of a replacement drive. I will just be sure to vacuum up all my scattered sunflower seed shells before proceeding.