Right now I’m at my desk here in San Antonio but yesterday morning I was in Tiburon watching the fog move across the bay as the sun came up. I planned on showing you how beautiful that was. I set my alarm for 5:45 a.m., set my camera up on a tripod and connected it to my PowerBook. I used Boinx’s iStopMotion to automatically snap a picture every 2 seconds for about 2 hours. I had this really great time-lapse video and the only other person who got to see it was Markus. “Why is that,” you ask? Well, as I was adding the music I made for it on the plane ride back, Final Cut Pro decided to make the source file dissappear! WTF Final Cut Pro!?? When I got home I checked the Apple discussion boards and found that this has happened to a few other people and it seems that the file really is gone. It’s not renamed, not in the trash, not invisible, not anywhere. So that’s it. I guess I’ll just have to go stay with Dave in Tiburon again and give it another shot.
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Damn, there was no getting it back huh? But you think it was a FCP bug and not a drive failure?? That’s good at least. And it’s all a reminder to us all to constantly think about back-ups. Making back-ups as we go. I wouldn’t have thought to duplicate the file immediately onto the same drive… but now I would. (And I should make off-site back-ups of all my most important files asap…)
Yeah, it’s not a drive failure. I may have something to do with “roundtripping” between FCP programs according to messages on the Apple support site. I exported video to Soundtrack and started making music, when back to FCP to add an audio marker, back to Soundtrack, exported sound back to FCP, then exported to Compressor. Too bad I didn’t compress it right then. As soon as I went back to FCP the file dissappeared.
the original source footage itself disappeared?
Yep, it’s gone. It wasn’t shot on tape - it was recorded to disk because it was a time-lapse.
Oh that is sad. I saw the wonderful timelapse Michael made and the effort he put into setting it up. It was a beautiful piece.
Pardon the plug, but this is one good reason to SpinXpress a copy back to your desktop (or friends). Makes for a great backup mechanism.
Roundtripping, huh? Yeah the files I lost while editing my film were the source clips for a section for which I was making LiveType titles. Both LiveType and FCP were using the media source files and I was flicking back and forth between the programs quite a bit…. it’s very good to pin down a cause. And now I know that drive was okay. Thanks, Verdi! (As always.)
Hey - does iStopMotion only work when a camera is hooked up to the computer? Or can you shoot regular video (like a sunset on a tripod at 30i or 24p or at somekind of built in time-laspe) and then use this software to speed it up / to drop most of the frames? How would this change the way you’d go about the stop-motion projects we’ve worked on together in the past? Zach’s/Chris’/our little people (all shot in a studio)?? Jon + Marcella’s walking stop motion (which would be hard to do with a computer attatched)?
damnit
i wish i had seen it before we left for the airport!
guess we’ll have to make a timelapse of the brick wall view at our house next week.
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