GH2 "This Motion Image Cannot Be Played" This The Second Time Filming And Footage Is Gone

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produce12

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"This Motion Image Cannot Be Played" This The Second Time Filming And Footage Is Gone

Can someone explain this ? I went on a 1 hour shoot and when I get back to playback the footage on the computer I get this message "This motion image cannot be played". I was also missing some clips as well. I use Patriot 32gb memory card class 10 btw.
 
Hard to say much without more information.

1. Have you successfully played clips from the GH2 on this computer system previously?
2. If so, are there any clips from the present card that do play successfully?

If the answer to 1 is no, then are you sure your software player and codec can handle AVCHD footage?

If the answer to 1 is yes and 2 is no, then either your card is corrupt or your card reader is not reading the card properly
If the answer to 1 is yes and 2 is yes, then some (but not all) of your mts files appears to be corrupt.
 
produce12 said:
Can someone explain this ? I went on a 1 hour shoot and when I get back to playback the footage on the computer I get this message "This motion image cannot be played". I was also missing some clips as well. I use Patriot 32gb memory card class 10 btw.
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I've stumbled onto what seems like a very easy workaround - a cure, really. I had the same problem. Was shooting in Cinema 24p (1080p) mode, though I think even recording 720p video, I was getting the same error message you report, on playback. (Though I could swear that didn't happen the day before, when the 32gb (45mbps) card was brand new.) Discovered that if I just turn the GH2 off after recording, then turn it back on, playback of recorded video works. Have been testing this repeatedly, and it continues to work that way - "This motion image cannot be played" if I try to play back my video recording on the camera itself without turning the camera off after doing the recording. But if I turn it off and then turn it on - playback works fine. I'm guessing that this all must have something to do with video file storage the GH2 does initially, rendering playback inoperative, that gets cured by a kind of reset brought about by turning the darn thing off and on.

This odd protocol is so simple, I wonder why Panasonic doesn't put it into the (hard to navigate) user manual. But maybe they're just embarrassed to say, "Well, you have to turn it off and turn it on again to get playback."

And in any case, the video files (despite the error message), once transferred to my Mac, are fine and play back okay in iMovie, too (after encoding them using ClipWrap software). Though 24p recordings do seem to get fragmented automatically into roughly six minute increments even if I'm recording on a card that I've freshly reformatted with the GH2.
 
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WhatAndGiveUpShowBusiness said:
This odd protocol is so simple, I wonder why Panasonic doesn't put it into the (hard to navigate) user manual. But maybe they're just embarrassed to say, "Well, you have to turn it off and turn it on again to get playback."
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Does this happen on non-hacked GH2s? I've only experienced this with hacked GH2s and that's because you're running out of buffer memory (or something) with some of the higher end patches. Which wouldn't be Panasonic's fault in the least.
 
Gary Huff said:
Does this happen on non-hacked GH2s?
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Don't know the answer, you're ahead of me there. You may well be right, as my GH2 is hacked (got it used, already hacked). Wasn't out to blame Panasonic, though I guess I was being a little catty ("maybe they're just embarrassed...."), especially if, as you suggest, it's only a hacked version that has this bug. My motive in posting, though, was to celebrate that I've found a very easy solution to this possibly hacked-induced operational problem. I had been bumming about not having any in-camera playback - felt like I was almost shooting blind, having to hope that when I got back home to my card reader and Mac I'd find that the recordings were in fact captured and usable (they were).
 
Produce, the "Patriot" card is a highly suspect culprit here. I've followed card issues since 2008 and until just a couple years ago Patriot, A-Data, and Dane-Elec, had DISMAL records. The issues surfaced most noticeably with the advent of DSLRs and those brands seemed to not be able to keep up with the camera and also produced the most reports of card failure and data loss.

Transcend was quite a bit better but still lagged behind SanDisk in reliability. SanDisk is also the most counterfeited media on the market which should tell us all something. I've used nothing but SanDisk since 2008 and have not had a single incident of card failure or data loss. I also buy those only from B&H.
 
Bruce Foreman said:
Produce, the "Patriot" card is a highly suspect culprit here.
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While this specific Patriot card might be the problem here, I've been using over a dozen different Patriot cards for almost 5 years now and have never had a problem with any of them.

I also own Sandisk cards, which cost more and are higher performance, but the Patriot cards have been equally reliable for me. ( right now I use a mix of Patriot EP cards and Sandisk 95MB/sec cards )
 
TheDingo said:
While this specific Patriot card might be the problem here, I've been using over a dozen different Patriot cards for almost 5 years now and have never had a problem with any of them.
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I have one Patriot card, the 32GB LX Series, and I never had any problems with it on Sedna at 24L. It would span for 40 minutes with no issues with that hack, and I never lost any footage...except I had Transcend card corrupt on me once. Formatted it a few times in camera and it seemed to work okay, but I just had it corrupt on me in my C100 again, so I will have to replace it (thankfully, I was doing dual-slot recording so I lost nothing).
 
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