[Phillip Todd]

Enjoy Zurich. I moved back to the USA in 2011. I’ll have to update the COW. A great artists community in Zurich. Someone has to balance out all the Bankers!

Phillip Todd
Cinematographer
Philadelphia – NYC – Zurich

Reel: https://vimeo.com/7355095
Filmography: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0865259/filmoyear

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[Phillip Todd]

Maybe clipwrap would have worked for you? My story (a little off topic, but still relevant):

I had a case like this once on my GH2 camera while changing the battery.

In the middle of a live event I had to swap the battery ASAP.

I stopped recording, waited until the OSD showed card access had ended.
I turned camera off and waited until the display went dark.
Battery swap.
Turned on camera and resumed shooting.

Upon ingesting the whole card was unreadable by FCP7 L&T.
Looking via the finder there was one file of many that reported it was zero kb.

After 3 days of trying to find a solution with many different recovery programs, I found one that worked for me (mbp 10.5 & FCP7)

I used Panasonic’s “AVCCAMRecovery_Mac” aka “AVCCAM SD Card File Recovery” recovery program to retrieve all the data on the card to a folder on my HD. It also uncovered files from before the card was last formatted (good to know!).
link: https://eww.pass.panasonic.co.jp/pro-av/support/dload/avccam_recov/agree_e.htm
More Panasonic recovery tools: https://eww.pass.panasonic.co.jp/pro-av/support/desk/e/download.htm

The zero kb file was now a 4 GB file. The finder could even preview it! FCP could see it, try to ingest it and then would crash at the end of transcoding the file to ProRes. The rest FCP7 ingested.

Likewise 5DtoRGB v1.5.3b would hang upon reading the last frame.

The breakthrough:
I used Clipwrap 2.4.6 on the recovered file (4GB) saved on my HD and it had errors.
I used Clipwrap 2.4.6 on the file (zero kb) still on the original memory card that had been in the camera
AND IT RECOVERED IT !!!

Also worth checking out is Treasured. They can fix files via an online service. I didn’t need it, but, could save your bacon. https://aeroquartet.com/movierepair/repair

In my case that “zero kb” file was actually 4 GBs worth of valuable footage. Don’t reformat your memory cards until you have recovered your zero kb files!

Phillip Todd
Cinematographer
Philadelphia – NYC – Zurich

Reel: https://vimeo.com/7355095
Filmography: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0865259/filmoyear

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