post forever!!!!!

[bryanpapierski]

i have had my camera synce oct but havent had a chance or the hard drives until now. so today im recording and i shoot 3/4 short shots then i do a 1 min shot and is was posting for 50% of the battery then the battery died the camera shut down (never recorded the shot) and tonight i was going throught the menues and then i started recording again and the same thing i did 2/3 taken and on the third it has been posting for 5min now! 37% battery and 98% on the hd? what the heach is this.... thank god im not on a real shoot! i have a commercial next week and im not trusting the camera! its build 17!
its now 10 min later 33% power and the record button just shut off! is this normal???????
so i just went to watch the take and the camera is frozen on what ever it was pointed at and will not play the shot!!! its not lockes up except for the image!!!!
bryan@squirm.tv

 

[Phillip R Lopez]

more info please? which media type? Which format?

 

[jimhare]

Until you can figure it out, turn off the QuickTime Proxie creation. This will hopefully stop it freezing in post until you can sort out what is really happening.

Best of luck.

Jim

 

[Dylan Macleod CSC]

Hey Bryan

Hopefully you can post more info so we can try to help.

In the mean time do you have CF cards? Does the same problem happen with the cards? If not, don't use the drive on the shoot.

Also, if you can't solve this issue DO NOT take your camera out on the shoot!

Sounds obvious - I know - just trying to keep the RED REP clean.

 

[Marc Berger]

Hi Bryan,

Battery tip:
Don´t forget to format the new batteries by loading and deloading them completely. Do this at least about five times when they are new. Like this you reach max. capacity.
Marc

 

[J. Eric Camp]

Reformat the drive.
Turn off proxies.
Try a different drive cable.
Check for the issue on the CF cards.

Past that try re-installing the camera firmware.

Past that, it may be time to send both the drive and the camera to red for service. It might be a bad eSATA connection.

Talk to the bomb squad.

 

[Rich Schaefer]

Any news? What happened?

 

[Brent J. Craig]

Long POST times are often caused by many dropped frames when you are shooting. What was the red dropped frame counter reading?