This IS the Avid L2: Re: [Avid-L2] OT: File recovery from XDCam disc

Saturday, April 4, 2015

Re: [Avid-L2] OT: File recovery from XDCam disc

Thanks. I suggested to the producer the option of trying to play it out of the camera that recorded it, but the shooter's leaving town tomorrow and she's not available
to address the issue until Monday, so no luck there. I was doubtful it would work anyway after she gave me the info that the FILE SYSTEM error popped up on the
camera towards the end of the disc; they were hoping that the footage shot before then would be OK. The fact that the camera kept recording afterwards is interesting,
because on the VTR the record inhibit light came on, even though the switch on the disc was set for record enable.

I will pass on your suggestion. Thanks again.

Stephen Priest
CNN Atlanta

-----Original Message-----
From: "John Beck jb30343@windstream.net [Avid-L2]"
Sent: Apr 4, 2015 11:27 AM
To: Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [Avid-L2] OT: File recovery from XDCam disc

2 suggestions:
I have used Sony's file recovery service and had excellent results. You
send them the XDCAM disk. They work their magic and send you your
files. IIRC, the service was about $50 and had a pretty fast turn
around time.

Last summer I had a disk that could not be read, similar to yours. I was
able to put it into the camera that recorded it and it would play. I
captured it out of the camera via HDSDI and it looked fine. The
producer was happy with the captured files so I didn't send it to Sony.

I don't want to jinx myself but in fairness to Sony, I've used hundreds
of Sony XDCAM pro disks and have never lost a shot. Good luck with
yours. --J.B.

Stephen Priest spriest@mindspring.com [Avid-L2] wrote:
> Problem:
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> XDCam disc came in from a field shoot, upon inserting into PDW-U1 drive attached to Mac for processing, the XDCam Drive Monitor pops up an error message Volume Inconsistency, Recovery necessary. The XDCam Utility also recognizes the Inconsistency, and in the details says recovery is not possible. The Mac Drive Utility sees the PDW device, but the disc is grayed out so I can't try to verify or repair the disc using that.
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> I then tried putting it in one of our PDW-HD1500 VTRs to see if it would play, so I could at least dub/clone some of the footage to another disc. The message FILE SYSTEM popped up, and nothing happened when I hit play. Using the FF/RW buttons to jump through clips, the display would increment/decrement (066/071) like it was recognizing 71 clips on the disc, but no video would display. And the disc would not eject, I had to get an engineer to go behind the rack and yank the AC cable and put it back in while I held down the eject button, which worked.
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> Obviously, the disc is corrupt in some fashion; my questions are 1) are there any other repair utilities on the Mac that might work? 2) would a data recovery sevice be able to extract files from the disc, and if so any estimates as to cost?
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> All relevant experiences and suggestions welcome.
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> Thanks,
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> Stephen Priest
> CNN Atlanta
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