7Q File naming bug???

Gene Sung

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I reported this to CD, but wanted to see if you guys experienced this.

I've shot several client jobs with the new firmware and with good success and great looking footy. I did have a weird file naming glitch on the last shoot.

I usually just shoot 1 card in the 7Q unless I want to do 240fps 2K or 60fps 4K. This job was 23.976fps, but it was a documentary style job where we were following around a pro basketball player so I didn't want to miss anything, so I put 2 CARDS in so I wouldn't have to swap. Here's some specifics:

1) the 7Q only recorded to 1 card since I did not have enough footage for the 7Q to start recording to the other. It took up about 114 gigs of space.

2) I did the "Safe Eject" for both cards and shut down the 7Q before removing cards.

3) When I copied the footage over and reviewed, I freaked out because the stuff I shot a the beginning of the day was not at the start of the .mov files. The stuff I shot in the middle of the day was at the start. I then noticed something weird (Refer to attached PIC), the shots from the MIDDLE of the day began at CLIP0000000_000.mov and went until CLIP0000080_000.mov, then it went back the shots at the START of the day where the naming convention jumped to CLIP0000877_000.mov and ended at CLIP0000999_000.mov.

So basically the 7Q miss-named the files from the start of the day as 080 and the files at the start of the day as 000.

Anyone else get this? Like I said, it was SCARY because I thought the footage from the start of the day had been lost somehow. Everything was on there though.

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So Andy at Convergent wrote me back and this is what he said:


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If I recall correctly this is not a Odyssey7Q bug, it is simply how Mac OS X is set to display the files,


If you sort by "Date Created" instead of name" they will be in the order in which they are shot.


The OSX tends to mix up when files have a _in them, when it displays them by name. If you look at the created times, everything should match up just fine.




He is correct though because when I sorted by date, the footage was in the right order. Still really weird but as long as the footage is fine, I'm all good. But I think I will just shoot on 1 card mostly to avoid this.
 
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