Re: Please share your P2 horror stories

The first time I directly used the P2 system was the worst time.
I've heard people losing data before and it certainly seems it's a confusion of workflow and data maintenance...as was my misadventure.

I come in to my edit bay and receive 2 cards from the shoot crew that's been working all morning.
I copy both cards to the HDD. I check the footage and it's all there. Being that it was my first time doing this and importing into FCP, I had to figure out how to import the footage. I downloaded all the proper codecs and procedures. I was importing in FCP and for some reason I was having audio issues.

I decided to wipe my clips off the canvas window and delete them and start over...not knowing that if you DELETE in the import window of Log and Transfer, it DELETES THE MASTER FILE TOO! I lost all the footage. The DP had already re-formated the cards and that footage was lost too.

I started to do recovery with Data Rescue 2 but had no luck from the cards. I kept getting files with the .gz extension and whenever I tried to open a .gz file, a new one would emerge. It was a never ending cycle.

I kept Data Rescue working for the next 14 hours trying to recover files from our RAID but by that time the crew re-shot.

Download your cards to at least 2 HDD's. Keep one as a backup and then use the other one as your source material.