Barry? Corrupt XML Files?

[penfever]

Hey, guys. Just finished shooting a short film on the HVX-200. What a great camera. Much better than I expected. 10 thousand things I love about it. However, I'm sorry to say P2 isn't one of them. It's just too flaky for prime-time right now.
Case in point - most of the footage came out fantastic but one P2 offload was partially corrupted - the lastclip.txt file is blank and the XML files are all back-dated to 1980, which leads me to believe they're corrupted too. Needless to say, FCP won't import the videos - it lists all timecodes as -2 and craps out with a corruption error.
I have two individually copied backups on hard drives, both of which show the same issues. I returned all the camera equipment already. My question is, how do I get my footage back? I don't care about timecode much. I can do Mac or PC. So how do I turn those nasty MXFs into movies?

 

[jazzx]

I can assure you that P2 cards are a very solid medium, maybe not that great in capacity for now, but a million times of better reliability and robustness in comparison with tape, HDD's etc.
Your problem is not with the card but with the offload itself, something went wrong while you were emptying the contents.
If you have the MXF files you need only to copy them with their audio to the Media Folder in AVID, import them with Edius or Convert them into .avi with Cineform.

 

[Barry_Green]

I've never encountered a situation like you describe, so I don't know exactly what to tell you.

The XML file is handy for metadata but not necessary. Raylight, for example, imports and converts MXF video files and it doesn't even look at the XML. So try the demo download of raylight from www.dvfilm.com and see if it rescues your footage.