Hard Drive
So we have hit the first technical snag in post for 'FIVE'. The main partition of the external hard drive has become corrupted and so we can't access the movie at all. The 1TB drive is divided into 2 partitions - Media One and Media Two: Media One has the entire movie and is about 330GB full while Media Two has behind the scenes footage from the movie and is only 50GB full. We can not access Media One - Windows doesn't read it and same within Avid.Benji came up with a possible way to recover the data and we are currently in the process of trying to recover it. Benji's machine has got both Windows and MAC loaded onto it and Mac can see Media One drive and all it's data. The easiest thing would be to copy the data direct onto Media Two drive but since the external drive is NTFS file format - Mac can not write to it. So now we are copying the files to Benji's FAT32 drive and once that is done - we will boot into Windows and transfer the files across. The only other hiccup is that we have 330GB of data while Benji's hard drive has only 100GB free - that means 3 rounds of doing the same process again - with each lot taking about 3 and half hours odd from start to finish. And once the data is transferred we also have to format the bad partition and get the drive back to it's original state.
At the end of 10 hours odd - will get to know if we have recovered the project or not. That is when I should be encoding the movie and making a DVD to send out for selection process to a film festival plus the cast screening of the rough cut on Saturday. I think now it will be down to the wire and will be a mini-miracle hitting those time lines.
Keeping fingers and toes crossed.
Amit
Labels: Five, Post Production
posted by Amit @ 12:19 PM
1 Comments:
Scary stuff. I had a similar experience on a project I worked on a few years ago. We lost 1 of our 3 media drives. Luckily we were able to replace the dead drive and just batch-recapture the missing footage. Hope everything works out ok for you.
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