Mike Gorga
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BOOM! Excellent. Clicked off the XMP box and all is good again. I think the CC upgrade defaulted mine to on. Thanks man!
Mike Gorga, Producer/Director
MEGCOMM Film & Video Prod.
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Fortunately the client had a similar event and we were able to grab the shots we actually needed during that event. We were unable to recover anything from that card.
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It turned out we were using SD cards that were initially recommended for the EX with the adapter but people experienced issues and they became non-recommended.
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It was totally accidental. We were assembling a new demo and pulled a bunch of things in and just missed the fact it was a reference QT.
Its name is totally bogus so we can’t find the problem clip on the sequence or in any bin because we can’t keep the program from locking up in that search mode long enough to find it.
Back in the Media 100 days (90’s) we used to use a lot of “export by reference” but with FCP I know its not a good idea. Now this one file is holding up everything.
Mike Gorga, Producer/Director
MEGCOMM Film & Video Prod.
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I think I have gotten to the bottom of OUR problem, at least. Can’t comment further. It turns out the cards we have are Sandisk Ultra II Class 4. The Cow is deep and vast and I never saw the thread on the problems with the class 4 cards.
I’m going to pick up a couple SxS cards and then a few class 2 Sandisks for slot to slot backups in the field and give this another shot with a bunch of tests before taking this rig out into the field again.
“[mike gorga] “I am aware the JVC camera is HDV. Not sure I understand here. ”
Codec is worse than XDCAM. That’s my point.[mike gorga] “The Sandisk Ultra II High Speed 15mb/s were recommended by M+R when I got their card readers. I bought 6 of them. ”
Yes, they were recommending them after people had already been reporting issues. If you search this forum you’ll find a fair number of Sandisk Ultra II issues. At one time Transcend Class 6 were recommended but at some point they became unreliable too.
Right now I’m seeing ATP Class 6 and Sandisk Extreme Class 10 and the latter, with the new firmware seem to be closest to SxS of any of the SxS cards. ”
Mike Gorga, Producer/Director
MEGCOMM Film & Video Prod.
800.816.1884 -
I am aware the JVC camera is HDV. Not sure I understand here.
The Sandisk Ultra II High Speed 15mb/s were recommended by M+R when I got their card readers. I bought 6 of them.
Mike Gorga, Producer/Director
MEGCOMM Film & Video Prod.
800.816.1884 -
Thats the plan from now on Mike. I don’t trust this other stuff and really don’t fully trust the SxS.
Mike Gorga, Producer/Director
MEGCOMM Film & Video Prod.
800.816.1884 -
“33 years and you’ve never encountered bad tape stock? ”
I don’t remember writing that.
“Given the frequency of issues with both tape stock and camera record heads, nothing matches the reliability I’ve had with EX. Nothing even comes close.”
Well thats good for you, but others have had different experiences.
“All issues have a cause. It’s either the card, the adaptor or the camera. A bad card doesn’t make the format unreliable. It makes the card unreliable. In fact just as I’ve seen tape stock manufacturing change without overt label changes, the same thing is happening with SDHC cards as techniques and, more likely, the controllers built into the cards change.”
When you lose a card you lose the day! I’ve only ever lost one shoot day on tape, 3/4-sp in about 1990. I was about to run backups and during the rewind process (we never rewound in the field) apparetly something happened that scratched 3-4 Umatic 20’s.
“Name the specific brand of the card and see how many head slaps (one way or the other) appear on this thread.”
Sandisk 16gb cards are what we’re using. They were recommended by M+R, the Expresscard reader company down under.
“Personally I would not trust tape over a good SDHC card and I wouldn’t trust HDV or XDCAM as a codec.”
The EX1 and EX3 are XDCAM products.
Mike Gorga, Producer/Director
MEGCOMM Film & Video Prod.
800.816.1884 -
We didn’t just throw any old SD car into it. 3 years without even one shot huh?
When a card crashes upon removal from the camera, with the power off, without having removed the card with the red light lit, without having triggering the camera until the red turns green, without removing the SD card from the expresscard reader while in the camera… and without all the other problems novices have with these cameras its difficult to have a “badly managed workflow”. The card crashed or the camera crashed the card. Period.
I’m 56, in the business for 33 years and have not had the EX3 long enough (8 months) to make such a claim compared to video or film. Worked with both. Had few problems with either.
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“I’ve had my EX1 since Dec 2007. Started using SDHC almost exclusively (SXS only for overcrank) in Jan 2009.
I have NEVER lost a shot.
There is bad card stock just as there is bad tape stock.
There’s also badly managed workflows.In 30 years experience I’ve found the EX1 more reliable than any tape based camera I’ve worked with.
There are no drop outs. There are no tape creases. There are no worn record heads or playback heads that result in alignment or tracking issues. The codec doesn’t break like HDV either.You can NOT slap any SDHC card in an expect it to work reliab”
Mike Gorga, Producer/Director
MEGCOMM Film & Video Prod.
800.816.1884 -
I have the same sticky zoom problems. There is no excuse. Hell I have better zooming on far less cameras. I wonder if the lens from my old Sony 537 rig would fit this? Half inch. Not HD. Hmmm lets check this out.
In my career I’ve waited too many months to get gear back that has the identical problem it had when it left the shop. If the zoom WORKS…that is…changes the focal length…then it’s considered fine I suppose.
This is a smaller problem than losing a day shoot because of card failure, or camera causing card failure, but thats another story.
Mike Gorga, Producer/Director
MEGCOMM Film & Video Prod.
800.816.1884