P2 footage blocky or pixilated

Cole

Cole

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I did a shoot back in October using my HVX200 taping 1080/30P to numerous P2 cards. Cards were dumped as they were filled and put right into Adobe PP CS4 to verify it was usable and it was. A few days after the shoot I transferred the folders to an external drive for them to use later. Now the project is ready for this footage and the editor is finding what he describes as "color blocks" and "static" throughout the footage. As soon as I heard I went back and pulled the data from my back up drive and it is still razor sharp. I edit on a PC but the current editor is using FCP (not sure of his configuration or version). I have no idea what the work flow is to ingest but he has dealt succesfully with P2 footage before.

I know I copied the footage properly by dragging & dropping the Contents folder and txt file from the P2 card into individual folders for each card.

Has anyone else encountered this?

Thanks for any help.

Cole
 
Yes, it's been encountered many times, and it is a bug in the way FCP/Mac/OSX copies data. It results in some corruption occurring during the copy. Use a file-compare utility to compare the originals against what he copied, and I'll bet you a nickel you'll find the differences there.

Start over by making a disk image instead of log & transferring directly from the external hard disk and it'll probably work much better.
 
Thanks Barry. I am meeting with him as soon as tomorrow and will relay the suggestion.
 
So I took my copy of the original data on a little passport hard drive and he hooked it up an noticed a difference before he even did the log and transfer. I guess you get a little preview window before beginning and the old footage showed the block issue even on that preview screen and my copy didn't. I haven't heard if there were any issues once the footage was logged and transferred so I figure it worked out. All we could deduce is that the hard drive became corrupt in some way while it sat and waited for the edit process begin.

Redundancy saves the day!
 
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