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LAFCPUG - Don't fail me now!
Posted by marybeth
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Re: LAFCPUG - Don't fail me now! November 05, 2009 10:01AM |
This isn't for you. Unfortunately I have no suggestions for you.
This is for anybody else who might read this:
Back up your project files.
You don't have any computer files unless you have them twice. And even then, you just barely have them. Project files are tiny, and trivial to back up. Use Time Machine. Email project files to your Gmail account every few hours. Flash drives are cheap; buy a six-pack and put a copy of your project files on every one. Stash one in your safe deposit box at the bank.
Back up your project files.
(Okay, I lied a little bit. Check your autosave vault. Odds are a recent copy of each of your project files is stashed away there, because Final Cut Pro is more fastidious than any of us.)
This is for anybody else who might read this:
Back up your project files.
You don't have any computer files unless you have them twice. And even then, you just barely have them. Project files are tiny, and trivial to back up. Use Time Machine. Email project files to your Gmail account every few hours. Flash drives are cheap; buy a six-pack and put a copy of your project files on every one. Stash one in your safe deposit box at the bank.
Back up your project files.
(Okay, I lied a little bit. Check your autosave vault. Odds are a recent copy of each of your project files is stashed away there, because Final Cut Pro is more fastidious than any of us.)
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Re: LAFCPUG - Don't fail me now! November 05, 2009 10:15AM |
Yeah...I am so sorry for your loss...but I am with Jeff...I have no suggestions for you other than if you are in school and this is a Thesis / Film Project, go tell the genius that gave you / recommended you use a 500gb WD My Book Studio to store your work files that it is THEIR FAULT. Worse suggestion for a work drive...EVER. I would be good and mad. Should have been working on a CalDigit VR 2TB in RAID 1 for redundant (Mirrored) backup.
Your data is precious...don't be cheap with storage / work units...EVER. Hopefully lesson learned.
When life gives you dilemmas...make dilemmanade.
Your data is precious...don't be cheap with storage / work units...EVER. Hopefully lesson learned.
When life gives you dilemmas...make dilemmanade.
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Re: LAFCPUG - Don't fail me now! November 05, 2009 10:38AM |
Not sure if you ever did a search on the LAFCPUG for "Mybook". These (or any store bought drives) were never meant to be used for editing. They don't come with a fan or a good cooling system, which is disastrous when you keep your drives running for long periods of time. The writing was on the wall, and we don't make warnings for no reason. Go cheap and lose your data. It depends on which you'll rather pay for- reshoots or better drives with good back up procedures.
Usually a drive failure doesn't mean so much. I had 3 drives fail in a week- 2 in an aging RAID 5, and a back up drive, and we still carried on editing. You could also check your autosave vault, as Jeff mentioned. And where are the original rushes stored? They gotta be somewhere!
Here are a few things you could try out... But of course, your case is kinda unique, because it's a failed drive that has been through data recovery. You may want to give them a call beforehand.
[aeroquartet.com]
[www.macintosh-data-recovery.com]
[www.drivesaversdatarecovery.com]
www.strypesinpost.com
Usually a drive failure doesn't mean so much. I had 3 drives fail in a week- 2 in an aging RAID 5, and a back up drive, and we still carried on editing. You could also check your autosave vault, as Jeff mentioned. And where are the original rushes stored? They gotta be somewhere!
Here are a few things you could try out... But of course, your case is kinda unique, because it's a failed drive that has been through data recovery. You may want to give them a call beforehand.
[aeroquartet.com]
[www.macintosh-data-recovery.com]
[www.drivesaversdatarecovery.com]
www.strypesinpost.com
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Re: LAFCPUG - Don't fail me now! November 05, 2009 10:52AM |
If you weren't taught to backup, file-manage and protect your files, then you weren't taught to edit properly.
I strongly suggest you find a proper FCP teacher who can tell you how and where to put files, how to protect them with multiple redundancies, and how each file pertains to which part of editing. Seriously, I would never have allowed any of my students in the past to even start a project without pounding those rules into their heads first.
www.derekmok.com
I strongly suggest you find a proper FCP teacher who can tell you how and where to put files, how to protect them with multiple redundancies, and how each file pertains to which part of editing. Seriously, I would never have allowed any of my students in the past to even start a project without pounding those rules into their heads first.
www.derekmok.com
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Re: LAFCPUG - Don't fail me now! November 05, 2009 01:46PM |
>it's just that FCP can't open them, so they must corrupted and I just wish there was a program
>that could analyze them and straighten them out.
I already mentioned it.
[aeroquartet.com]
Give them a call.
>It was a very good drive actually
Ouch! You just made me spurt coffee through my nose. These lemons have a massive design flaw, as I mentioned.
www.strypesinpost.com
>that could analyze them and straighten them out.
I already mentioned it.
[aeroquartet.com]
Give them a call.
>It was a very good drive actually
Ouch! You just made me spurt coffee through my nose. These lemons have a massive design flaw, as I mentioned.
www.strypesinpost.com
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Re: LAFCPUG - Don't fail me now! November 05, 2009 02:41PM |
You peeps are playing Russian Roulette with your data using those WD MyBook units. Hope your data isn't critical (all my ones & zeros are). Good luck with that.
When life gives you dilemmas...make dilemmanade.
When life gives you dilemmas...make dilemmanade.
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Re: LAFCPUG - Don't fail me now! November 05, 2009 03:26PM |
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It was a very good drive actually
There are only two kinds of hard drives in this world: totally dependable ones that are astonishing examples of engineering tolerances, and useless hunks of metal and plastic.
The catch is that any hard drive in the first class can become a hard drive in the second class at a moment's notice, with no warning.
Back up your crap. Period.
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Re: LAFCPUG - Don't fail me now! November 05, 2009 03:30PM |
DO you have the PROJECT file? The thing we all say that you need to have backed up? Or was that on the external only too? All the other things...the MEDIA files...just recapture those from the master tapes. P2? XDCAM EX? AVCHD? Did you keep/archive the card data? Or convert to QT and then erase?
If a media drive dies...which happens...then all you need to do is recapture your source footage...or reimport. The project file has it all logged, so just recapture and your edit is safe. No point trying to spend hundreds of dollars recovering a media drive if you have this.
If you don't have the originals, WHY NOT!?!? If you don't, then whoever taught you needs to be drawn and quartered.
God, should I get into teaching? I don't think it pays as much as I am used to getting...
www.shanerosseditor.com
Listen to THE EDIT BAY Podcast on iTunes
[itunes.apple.com]
If a media drive dies...which happens...then all you need to do is recapture your source footage...or reimport. The project file has it all logged, so just recapture and your edit is safe. No point trying to spend hundreds of dollars recovering a media drive if you have this.
If you don't have the originals, WHY NOT!?!? If you don't, then whoever taught you needs to be drawn and quartered.
God, should I get into teaching? I don't think it pays as much as I am used to getting...
www.shanerosseditor.com
Listen to THE EDIT BAY Podcast on iTunes
[itunes.apple.com]
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Re: LAFCPUG - Don't fail me now! November 05, 2009 08:00PM |
So, Marybeth, did you check the auto saves? There's likely a copy in there somewhere that you will be able to open. Might not be the most up to date version, but you can use it to recapture all the footage automatically if you captured it correctly.
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Re: LAFCPUG - Don't fail me now! November 06, 2009 08:35PM |
Actually it was Jeff who suggested the autosaves. I just hadn't seen a response that indicated that Marybeth had given that a shot yet, so thought maybe she missed it.
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