Please help me restore this file

I sure didn't mean to start up another apple vs. pc debate
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and i didnt mean to hijack your thread. i just feel that some people are being a bit less than objective lately ; )

I'm assuming it was caused by the cameraman ejecting the P2 before he stopped recording.
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yeah, that IS the most logical answer. i used a rental hvx once that once it started recording it wouldnt stop. you had to power it down. so each time i repowered it i had to go into the menu and repair the clip. but it all worked fine in the end.

my next suggestion. if you really have truly exhausted your mac options (p2cms, shotput, whatever) is get a FAT32 formatted portable hard drive or large usb jump drive and take your footage folder over to a pcmcia equipped windows machine. and try to reload it there.

i would like to think that once you get the footage back on the card, a simple repair clip will fix your woes...
 
wgzn said:
i would like to think that once you get the footage back on the card, a simple repair clip will fix your woes...
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And that is what he was trying to do. And that's what the Mac doesn't let him do. And that is what I was hoping someone would tell him how to do.

And your suggestion was the same thing I came up with -- you have to use Windows to do it.

And, I appreciate you weighing in and trying to help him. Thanks for doing that. What I don't like is when *nobody* chimes in, so I finally tell him exactly where the problem is (the Mac just won't do certain things) and then I get bitched at for "slagging the Mac". That gets tiring. So yeah, you detected some attitude on my part, because I get loads of attitude every time I try to point out that the problem is that certain hardware/OS combinations simply don't allow some fundamental obvious operations.

Obviously Mac users have workarounds. What are they?

So yeah, here's the deal: I'd love to just be able to tune out any question that arises whenever the words "FCP" or "Mac" are used in a post, and it'd be absolutely fantastic if Mac users would respond quickly and rapidly to serve these users so that I didn't feel I had to. My frustration comes up when people with legitimate questions and legitimate needs are left hanging. So I step in and tell them ways that will absolutely solve their problem... and then get accused of "anti-mac prosletyzing."

So -- my New Year's Resolution for 2010 is to go an entire year without using either the term "Mac" or "FCP" in a post on DVXUser. I just hope that Mac aficionados will step up to the plate and make sure DVXUser members are getting prompt answers to their questions.
 
I can easily write back to my P2 cards with my old PB G4. Are you copying and pasting the files from the Mac back to the PB or are you dragging and dropping? I get the same message that you do if I drag and drop or use the finder but it works fine if I copy the folder and lastclip.txt from the PB and past it into the blank P2 card.

Dan
 
Thanks Dan I'll try that. I was just dragging and dropping. How do you get the P2 card blank? Even after formatting it shows a CONTENTS and lastclip.txt?
 
Barry_Green said:
Y'know, if more Mac users would come on and help folks like you, I wouldn't have to try to struggle through it and thus show my complete disdain for the Mac's limitations when it comes to P2. :)
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I know this doesnt help the OP. I edit on Mac BUT, offload using shotput pro on a windows laptop. I call it insurance. Shotput Pro lets me offload the footage to the laptop HDD and offload to an external simultaneously. I have had transferred files give me an error, Ive never had to do more than recopy the files on the laptop and drop into mac again.

As I said doesnt help OP, but its a solid workflow that never fails and could help someone down the track.
 
ill AGAIN reiterate:

OLD powerbook G4, P2 card to internal drive (or external fw800) drag and drop copy each card to new folder. no write protecting. reformat card in camera.

3 years of repeated process - ZERO PROBLEMS.
 
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