It's still not completely clear.
You should have a folder for each card, each folder should contain the
CONTENTS folder and the
LASTCLIP.TXT.
The
CONTENTS folder should contain following folders:
CLIP
VOICE
PROXY
AUDIO
VIDEO
ICON
The amount of .mxf video files is the important thing (though you might have audio only on some models).
If you got more icon files than video files, probably the camera operator has 'quick' deleted some video files. Audio can have up to 8 tracks per file, so you can't say by the
amount of audio files how many video clips should be there. You can figure out the number of audio tracks per clip if you sort the audio files by date and look at the last two digits before the '.MXF'.
The
LASTCLIP.TXT is only needed to keep spanned clips/cards together but is required by some software packages to make the card readable.
To reconstruct a LASTCLIP.TXT file is pretty easy:
Open TextEdit and make sure you're in 'Plain Text' mode.
Open
VIDEO folder and search for the last clip. This should be done by sorting this folder items by date in list view of this folder - NOT by name. Double check whether the first four digits as number are really the highest number.
Type or copy the file name WITHOUT the extension into your TextEdit document.
Hit return and type
1.0 and hit return.
Look at your
VIDEO folder again and check the number of items included - add 1 to this number.
Type this number into your TextEdit document. Hit return.
You might get something like this:
0034S3
1.0
35
Save the file to the card folder as
LASTCLIP.TXT at the level of the
CONTENTS folder.
Regards
Andreas
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