Sam Leary

Ah, gotcha. I'm well aware of all that when dealing with external hard drives - it simply didn't occur to me that I'd need to treat a card in the same way. Duh. I'm sure you're right. It would make sense as to why the off-brand card has been ok shooting short clips, but can't cope with something longer.

Ahh. That's a possibility I guess. As I said, this card has worked with no problems in the past, but it's only ever been used to shoot short clips. I was shooting something rather lengthy. The camera was indicating I had about 26 mins left on the card (out of 55 mins when I started with a clean card) when it switched itself off. Are you saying that with these sorts of cards, I can't always rely on what the camera tells me?

Oh great, thanks. I was wondering if something like that was possible, but had no clue about what was needed or what the process was. Now I can make some calls to fix this and sound like I know what I'm talking about! :P

Oh no no no! I don't do that. No, something a bit odd happened while it was recording. I had this camera capturing a wide shot and I left it to run on its own while I did other stuff on my EX 3. At one point I glanced over to the EX 1 and noticed it had stopped recording for no apparent reason. I hit record again and off it went. I should have two clips on this card but there is only one, so something's flipped out somewhere. I'll try the PC thing and see how I go. Thanks.

Hi Folks I recently did a shoot using my Sony EX1 and a 16GB SanDisk card in an MxR-Express card34 adapter. I have not been able to get the footage off this card. * XD Cam Transfer does not work (various error messages) * XD Cam EX Clip Browser does not work. * Putting the card directly into my Mac's express card slot does not work. * Connecting the camera loaded with card via USB does not work. I tried to make a backup copy of the BPAV folder onto an external drive and that operation would not complete because some data could not be read. The camera asks to Restore Media whenever I power it on with this card in the slot, which it does without a hitch. The thing that gives me hope is that when I expand the clip, all seems well, and the camera can playback the clip without a hitch. It's when I try to get the card to interface with my computer - whether via express slot or the camera's USB connection, using any of the usual software - that I run into problems. I've never had this problem before. I've always used the real Sony cards and had no problems. This was my first outing with a non-Sony card, though this card has successfully worked in the EX1 previously. (It just chose an important shoot to have a fit.) Has anyone experienced this? Can my footage be rescued?