I have incomplete Contents of one crucial P2 Card and fear that the clips are permanently corrupted.
I was shooting verite documentary scenes in the field this weekend, downloading P2 Cards to a P2 Store and, each night, downloading the Store to an external firewire drive, using P2 Genie at 400 speed. This was a mistake, I fear, because I couldn't verify the media. I probably should have used P2 Log, no?
Once I returned to town I began importing the external drive contents (49 P2 Cards) into FCP. For two of the cards I received the sickening "one or more p2 clips failed to import; probable incomplete or corrupt clips" message.
I hadn't re-formatted the Store from the last day of shooting and was able to recover the clips on one of the cards that was still stored there; but the other card was from an earlier day and thus only on the external drive. Its Contents folder contains complete XML files in the Clips subfolder, but is missing 9 out of 11 MFX Video files.
Per Panasonic technical support I saved that Card's contents back to a P2 Card and tried "repairing" the clips in camera. The thumbnails are there but only two clips play (the ones, obviously, with the MFX Video files). I'm not sure I did it properly but none of the other 9 clips were repairable. Has anyone been able to "repair" a clip in camera?
Because one of the card's Contents were in tact on the P2 Store I'm thinking that the corruption occurred en route to the external drive. It might have been P2 Genie. The hard drive. The cable....
I'm assuming that without the MFX files I'm screwed. Is this correct? What causes this? I am losing confidence in this technology.
I was shooting verite documentary scenes in the field this weekend, downloading P2 Cards to a P2 Store and, each night, downloading the Store to an external firewire drive, using P2 Genie at 400 speed. This was a mistake, I fear, because I couldn't verify the media. I probably should have used P2 Log, no?
Once I returned to town I began importing the external drive contents (49 P2 Cards) into FCP. For two of the cards I received the sickening "one or more p2 clips failed to import; probable incomplete or corrupt clips" message.
I hadn't re-formatted the Store from the last day of shooting and was able to recover the clips on one of the cards that was still stored there; but the other card was from an earlier day and thus only on the external drive. Its Contents folder contains complete XML files in the Clips subfolder, but is missing 9 out of 11 MFX Video files.
Per Panasonic technical support I saved that Card's contents back to a P2 Card and tried "repairing" the clips in camera. The thumbnails are there but only two clips play (the ones, obviously, with the MFX Video files). I'm not sure I did it properly but none of the other 9 clips were repairable. Has anyone been able to "repair" a clip in camera?
Because one of the card's Contents were in tact on the P2 Store I'm thinking that the corruption occurred en route to the external drive. It might have been P2 Genie. The hard drive. The cable....
I'm assuming that without the MFX files I'm screwed. Is this correct? What causes this? I am losing confidence in this technology.
