Lost Clips on EX3 SxS card...

daz4421

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[FONT=&quot]Well this is pretty serious then. I have just come back from filming a wedding, 2 camera shoot. I have 4 x 16gb cards and 4 x 8gb cards, a ex1 and a ex3.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]On occasions I have had to restore media, it tells me to do so, I do and all is good.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]I filmed the wedding yesterday and was backing up the chips onto the 2 hard drives as usual. Chip 1 of 16gb, good, next chip 2 well it said must restore media, I thought no worries will do, BUT it does not come up with the execute option to do so, it just says I have to do it. [/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]So it just sits there telling me, but I cannot do it. Just a small icon of the sxs card on the VF and says restore media.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Anyway I put it to thumb nail, and it says “ Media Error, Media A needs to be restored”[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]But it will not let me do it. [/FONT]

[FONT=&quot]I put it in the ex1 with the old firmware and it does show the clips in player mode.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]It shows all the clips there and every now and then it shows a black picon, maybe 6 or 7 of them randomly placed for thumb nails[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]When I cursor to them they say duration is none and file format[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Of this clip is 1080i 60i.[/FONT]

[FONT=&quot]I film in 50i like the rest of the pal guys. I can’t select the clip either. It says it has no duration[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]And is the wrong format. When the player trys to play the previous clip then rolls on to the bad clip it says can’t play media must be restored.[/FONT]

[FONT=&quot]Because the ex1 can see the clips and the ex3 which it was shot on doesn’t want to I had to go and copy clip by clip all the shots off the chip to another missing out the 7 random black clips.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Lucky enough the service was on chip 1 and I have really only really missed the 5 minute first dance clip which could be serious but I had 2 cameras on that so I have it.[/FONT]

[FONT=&quot]This is really really bad news and has knocked my ex3 experience and confidence for the future. I still have all the clips on the chip including the black 1080 60i no duration clips, can anyone give me any advice or tips on what to do, what could it of been and can I see those black clips somehow?[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]If this was a corporate video on a 1 camera shoot, this would send my business down the drain.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Even a wedding video if it went service bad I would have to give all the money back and loose reputation. I never had this problem with tape. Everybody please help.[/FONT]
 
You shouldn't be getting media restore issues with real SxS, we don't even get them with XxS, I am really sus about your SxS card.

You could try to copy just the avi file from the BPAV folder and then try to use CL to "import" the AVI into a new folder, that recreates a new BPAV folder structure.
 
Thanks, yes they are the real sxs cards! An intesting thing is when I plug it in to the windows computer it says windows would like to scan and repair the disk. I am not sure I trust windows to do this so I dont. What is CL?

Thanks for the help,

Daz
 
sorry, CL is meant to be CB which is lazy type for Clip Browser

If you copy the contents of the media to a folder on your hard drive then you can let Windows do whatever you like to the files on the media. I don't think Windows will fix anything but you might want to run a full media write scan on the media which is that "Scan for and attempt recover of bad sectors" option in check disk.

I am sure there is also a plethora of write/read test programs out there to test the card with.
 
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