Stu Siegal
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Jerry, I’m not in denial – the problem is that the CORRECT project is COMPLETELY GONE. I accidentally overwrote it with an earlier version of a project with the identical name. In both my backup locations. Denial has nothing to do with it – once you overwrite file A with file B, if both files have the same name, file A is toast, obliterated. In this case, file B happened to be 8 hours younger than file A.
As I now understand, my raid – which contained my active project file – crashed, and when I brought it back with Disc Warrior and reopened FCP, I inadvertently opened the backup project file on my HD, worked on it all day without realizing I should have been working on the project file located on the raid, and at the end of the day in my usual backup procedure, copied the project file from the raid into my backup HD folders, inadvertently replacing the project I’d been working on all day with one of the identical name that hadn’t been touched since around 10 a.m.
So, if you know how to raise the dead, so to speak, let’s hear it. Otherwise, a little compassion might be nice, seeing as I just accidentally trashed a day of work and was looking for help, not attitude from someone who didn’t read the thread carefully.
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There is an autosave, but it is not what I need – I accidentally overwrote my most recent version of the project with an older version.
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No it didn’t. My day’s work never existed in this version of the project.
Only hope is some trick in the OS.
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Just read up on it, don’t think it will work.
This is a freakin’ nightmare, maybe the stupidest thing I have ever done. Going out on the ledge now…
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If cost is an issue, why not just plug your dvd player into the deck of your choice, record away, and then capture that tape – which will have tc – and use that for your edit. If this is all budget allows, it’s a down & dirty way to access the footage.
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If cost is an issue, why not just plug your dvd player into the deck of your choice, record away, and then capture that tape – which will have tc – and use that for your edit. If this is all budget allows, it’s a down & dirty way to access the footage.
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Hi Jerry,
Thanks, saw a warning come up on the disc utility, got a little panicked.
Anyway, what happened was that I ran the verify disc utility while doing some routine maintenance and it said my system drive “Volume Header Needs Minor repair” and “The volume sh HD needs to be repaired” which came up in bright red letters, sure is the first time I’d seen that message. Can’t repair it unless I boot from disc, which doesn’t seem to be happening.
Ideas?
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Hi Stu,
Any chance you accidentally have some media on you system drive? Worth a look…
Stu
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Hey Dan,
Don’t mean to infer that you were being a snob at all, your reviews and research are quite helpful and an excellent resource. The poster was just looking for some “real world” advice, and I thought your post was discouraging, making him feel that the entry level gear was useless. It’s not, it just has limitations. Point them out, and encourage him to know them going in and be realistic.
Yes, there are range, rf, squelch and a host of other compromises in entry level gear, but as long as you are realistic about their limitations, you take them and make them work for you.
The guy is using the consumer version of a prosumer cam. His whole budget probably isn’t 4k. But people are earning a living and producing excellent content using entry level wireless producing award winning docs, corp., broadcast, events etc. using 500 dollar wireless setups. If you’re a small operation, the $600 setup is the one in your bag for a certain type of project, and you make it work. When you can afford it, and you want a 4k setup, you hire an audio guy. Brian can afford that, and most likely doesn’t need to on this gig anyway.
It’s easy for experts to miss the forest for the trees sometimes when recommending gear. The whole point of DV or HDV in general is that they get everyone in the game. As is often said here and elsewhere, buy the best gear you can afford and get in the game.