Hot keys and SD Cards.

[John C]

Editing in Edius - VisTitle I suddenly started to get up windows explorer everytime I tried to type the letter E.

I spoke to Edius and they said that they thought I had set a Windows "Hot Key"

This was what had happened.

I had pressed the equavalent of Ctl Alt and the letter E and this gave me windows explorer. I had done the same thing with the letter R , I was typing the name "Cherry".

The cure, found after looking in a 2002 copy of Windows XP, was to remove the shortcut by going to the startup menu and deliting the shortcut. I found three others quietly awaiting a moment of Stress before they pounced!

It was a Bad Hair day for me. I had recorded an half hour interview with an expert on a rare breed of cattle and my Panasonic HDTM-900 came up with Card error Camera fixing fixing, or words to that effect. When I came to put it onto the Computer the files were all corrupted.

After the Interview I shot some footage of a storm and got a "card full" warning so I switched to the hard disk and the camera worked perfectly.

I have bought 4 16 gytbte cards for the camera, this is the third one the other two working OK without this message. I did not format the cards but cannot find any such instruction in the Panasonic manual so would not know what format to use.

Has anyone any ideas as to how I might rescue even a small portion of the Video? Fortuneatly I did make a backup sound track thanks to Argus and their £70 Olympus recorder.

How can one test these cards to see that they are in working order?

KR

John C

[FredD]

Hi John,

You could try formatting your new cards befor you use them.
You will find the software to do that here :

https://www.sdcard.org/consumers/formatter_3/

Panasonic suggest that using this formatter, instead of the generic
format command in your PC operating system, will make your cards
more reliable in use in the camera.

Afraid I can't make any suggestions on getting your corrupted data back.
There are specialist companies that offer this kind of service, and a search
on the net will find them, but I think you will find them rather expensive !

Hope this may be of some help,

Best regards,
Fred

[John C]

Thanks Fred. I have found he program and formatted the card in accordance with the program and Camera instructions.

I see that in the summary it is described as FAT 32. In the old days that meant that there was a file size limit and so we formatted in NTFS. Does HD work differently, does anyone know. I will try thre card and see what happens on a long clip.

Kind regards,

John C

[col lamb]

To format your SD card in the TM900 call up the Menu and select Setup and navigate to page 6 where you will find Format Media

I always format the cards in the camcorder especially new cards, what make of card did you have the problem with?

In Edius there are a mass of keyboard shorcuts and for me it is the major cause of frustration, I have never got used to using many in Premiere let alone Edius and to get the best out of Edius you have to get to know so many. I have looked in the user settings and that combination is not there as standard, nor does it have any effect on my system.

[tom hardwick]

John - there's a known problem with some Transcend 16gb SDHC cards and they're being recalled. I had one of these as well and it corrupted a lot of my footage.

[John C]

Thanks Tom,

I will follow that up. I see my cards are reputed to have a five year guarantee. Do not like testing guarantees!!

I have now started to try to index my HD footage. With tapes I had them all numbered, dated to and from, location and gendra all on a nice Excel data base that reconciled with the tapes in the various numbered storage boxes.

I could find any item by going straight to a tape and then running through the tape and extracting the Library picture I wanted

With capture dates and the nature of the SD cards the indexing and archiving of the footage is causing me some head scratching as I do not want retrieval problems in years to come. Not having a physical container for the footage is disturbing.

How does anyone else archive and index their SD card content, both project and Library material, particularly if the cards are going to be reused?

John C

[tom hardwick]

John, this is the Transcend email sent to all recent buyers of their 16gb SDHC cards:

Thank you for your support to Transcend. We are sorry for the inconvenience caused to you. If your 16GB SDHC card matches the SN number provided
(446121xxxx, 446136xxxx), please send us the below information and we will start processing the replacement. We will send you a prepaid envelop for you to send back the flash card you have on hand. Once we received it, we will immediately send you a brand new card for replacement.

[John C]

Great Thanks Tom