Steve Crow
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Oh that’s too bad, it’s for exactly this reason that I never format a card unless the project is basically over, but I have about 10 16GB SD HC cards to work with – so as I fill up a card, I copy over the complete content of that card (including the directory structure) to two different hard drives and then put the SD card away until I am 100 percent sure I won’t need it again. Well, don’t feel too bad – this is how we all learn.
If we assume that your cards were actually functioning properly then the error must have occurred while the data was being copied over your computer. To be honest I’ve never seen a copy error happen unless like the computer rebooted, went into sleep mode, lost power or something equally strange happened right in the middle of the process.
I have heard of files getting corrupted if the camera lost power while filming or if the card was allowed to fill up to the point where no more data could be written to it by the camera – both events would cause the file not to be “closed” properly. Even in those cases, it should still be possible to recover at least some of the files with the kind of software you’ve been using.
I really hope you are eventually able to recover your files, I am sorry I have nothing to offer you other than sympathy! 🙂
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Small HD monitors have a good value reputation, I don’t own one nor do I specifically know if they have both of the connection types you want in one monitor but check out the specs and reviews and I think you will see they are a good choice.
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Do the cards play back okay while still in the camera? If the card’s “directory” is corrupted then I am not surprised you are seeing messed up data too. Besides trying different recovery programs I don’t know what to suggest – you may just be out of luck but I often hear stories of people recovering at least SOME of their data off corrupted cards.
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Hmm, I just noticed that your shadow is moving as you walk down the hallway – so either the mask was large enough so that it included the shadow area or you used a different technique – I’m going with option two – you did something different.
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I see where you are going but the poster describes the OLDER camera as both sharper and more colorful – not what I would expect. While both cameras may have been set to Faithful, it is still possible that the color saturation and sharpness settings have been modified for the Faithful profile in one of the cameras.
There is also the lens issue but I just have a feeling it has more to do with a camera setting difference. Or did the poster simply make an error in describing which camera looked better?
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We here in the US can’t watch the top example video you posted because the person who posted it didn’t allow viewing outside his or her country.
I think if I were to recreate this look however I would rely on shooting the scene twice with a locked off camera (one that doesn’t move) In the first one, I wouldn’t be in it, just the hallway – I could either shake the camera or keep it steady and add a shaking motion in post which is probably the better way to go.
Then I’d film a second clip, keeping all the camera settings the same, and film myself simply walking forward and backwards in the hallway with the camera steady of course. From there it should be just a simple matter of applying a mask to the second clip to place myself in the hallway but at the same time isolating my movement from the shaking going on in the first clip.
That’s the basic approach I’d try taking anyways.
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I just saw this today and it’s the first system that I’ve found that could replace the Bracket 1 based rig I have now with a real “rails” based one. I’ve not considered cage type systems up until now because they looked like they would block access (particularly on the important right side) to the control buttons on my Canon HD DSLR.
But now Arri has a new baseplate system that has the option of a HALF cage on the left side only OR you can buy both a right and left hand side to make a traditional cage:
https://www.arri.com/camera/pro_camera_accessories/support_systems/mini_baseplate_mbp_3.html
Now it’s a rather pricey alternative although Arri says that if you purchase through their dealer system you can get a better price.
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I’m going to take a bit of leap here but I think the clue lies actually in the white screen. This tells me that Premiere doesn’t understand the video content of the file, in other words that PREMIERE doesn’t have the codec you downloaded installed.
To check this, see if you can export a video clip (pick a clip that Premiere doesn’t have a problem loading or editing, like an avi file) in the Avid DNxHD format. What I am thinking is that MPEG Streamclip has the codec installed but not Premiere, it may be a simple matter of copying the codec file into the correct Premiere folder on your PC and relaunching the application…that’s my working theory.
Your computer specs are not far from my own although I edit on a mac with GB of RAM so I don’t think it’s the computer hardware….older hardware like ours is generally just slower, it should still work.
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Try transcoding into ProRes instead….oh are you on a PC? I thought the whole deal with Premiere is that is supposed to be able to edit H264 files natively….something sounds definitely wrong. Oh (again) I guess you need the CS5 version to do that
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I think the Canon 50mm will serve you well (not familiar at all with the others) however as you point out that 50mm is going to act like an 80mm. I shoot mostly with a 50mm on a T2i too and I often wish I had something more like a 35mm or 24mm prime instead since I often find myself just too close to my subjects (the easy solution is to start walking backwards but that’s not always exactly possible)
Still the Canon 50 is sweet, enjoy!
Steve Crow
Crow Digital Media
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