C300: Data Recovery

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Rhyz

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I'm in a bit of a jam. I am working with a small production team and we recently shot some footage on the C300. We managed to format the card before backing it up and begin filming on it. We have a data recovery software that has supposedly recovered all files we need (55 .MXF files in total). So with the 55 .MXF files, I am able to open all of them in VLC player and every clip works great.

Here's where I am lost. I can't import any of the .MXF files into Premiere CS6. When I attempt to convert the .MXF files into another format, VLC player will convert five of the files into a .TS format but the remaining 50 files will simply crash VLC. Even the five files that do convert successfully to the .TS format are poor quality.

I have attempted to use other converters such as Adobe Media Encoder and a downloaded tool (PavTube Converter). My best result is from PavTube Converter, however, I am running into the same problem as VLC. It will only convert the same five files into a ProRes format and it looks great. The remaining 50 files will not convert.

As stated earlier, VLC player version 1.1.12 plays all of the .MXF files perfectly. I updated one of my two computers to VLC version 2.0.5 to see if that might help with the export, however now the the player won't play the files at all on the newer version.

Let me know if I can clarify anything and I would appreciate any and all help!
 
Earlier this year I did something similar, formatted an SD card before it was offloaded. I recused the files with Rescue pro deluxe and could view them With VLC but couldn't get them into an editable format.

I have Proxymill on my laptop and was able with some coaching to drag and drop the rescued files into proxymill and output them not as proxies but as 1920x 1080 pro res files and that solved my problem.
 
I see what you mean by "with some coaching." It's not very intuitive. Do you have some hints for me as to how I can drag and drop the files I need to transcode?
 
I believe it's version 3.0. I just found the user manual for it though. I will read through that and let you know if I have any problems. Thanks again for your help Mark.
 
1 question - if i did a format not in camcorder , but on my PC and i performed a full (not quick) ntfc format, - i wonder if its still possible to extract the data? i am asking as i have a CF card that i am going to sell and would not want some one get the info that was on it...
 
if you haven't started recording on the card and have simply formatted it , you should be able to get the files off it.
 
Just a quick update. Another employee in the production team has been using ProxyMill to obtain the files and it sounds like everything is going well. I'm not sure if they have encountered any other problems since I haven't been in the office, but for anyone else encountering this problem it seems to be working. Thanks again Mark. Very much appreciated!
 
Yep PM can do more than just proxies . PM bailed me out big time when I needed to convert rescued files and nothing else would do the job.
 
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