Time-lapse Crisis

JoeRawlins

JoeRawlins

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Abbreviated story:

I've been hired to record a 36-hour Time-lapse with my HVX200 of a home renovation project.

I was present for the full day and a half while the camera was recording in Interval at 1 frame per 30 sec. Meanwhile, I was taking photos on a borrowed Nikon D90 (Thanks Paul Hudson!) and every now and again, I would check in on the HVX time lapse to discover that someone had unplugged it, killed the breaker it was connected to, picked it up and moved it three inches, connected the same circuit to a stone grinder, etc. etc. etc.

All in all there are about a dozen times that I found the camera and had to start it again because someone did this and I figured however many minutes since they did it and when I discovered it were just going to amount to a jump in the time-lapse and maybe it would be okay.

Well, i just did my Log and Transfer....

First thought: Die, worthless construction apes, die!

I have two files with some sweet timecode surmising two or three hours each while the camera recorded on battery because I was chasing power for the time lapse camera. Then there are a dozen files in VTR mode on the HVX that are gray, have a timecode of 00:00:00;00 and have a red X in the frame and P2CMS shows them as "NO IMAGE" when it loads the clips.

Someone help. Please help.
 
Joe: I had this happen to me once. I was doing a timelasp. left the camera on and the battery ran down. The clip was grey. my workflo was Edius 5:12 camera hooked via usb. Direct p2 select. import to hard drive and to bin. I had a corrupt clip. I put the p2 card in my laptop and clicked on content and downloaded to harddrive and it worked. I brougt it into Edius on laptop. and transfered back to the p2 card, moved it back to desktop editor. I believe the footage is there. Keep trying.
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sorry to hear about problem, but thanks for reporting. good lessons learned for all of us. The client should have informed the "apes" not to fool with his other contractor.
 
Joe, As some of the other members have indicated, put the P2 card in the camera and go the playback mode and see if you have a red X on the clip. If you have, use the in camera Repair Clip to try and fix it. As always make sure you have a backup copy on an external device first.
 
I walked Joe through the repair clip. He is up and running now! I think he may be on his way to snipe a few apes.
 
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