I did briefly consider making a video about this, but I think my channel does not need that much rants and I will make a thread here instead. Maybe it will make someone else explode too, with resurrecting similar memories.
We all have had camera trouble, with losing footage and there are several threads about that. What happened to me did not quite fit under any of the ones I found though. I still have all the footage. I have the project files and I will continue editing the video, so nothing was lost, but time and some nerve cells.
I went to an event and recorded a lot of footage. Like, a lot, compared to how much I usually record. The curse of having more than one camera, that I am beginning to understand more and more. It has not happened before, that I return from one day event, with close to 100GB of footage. Surely most of this will not end up in the edit, but I still need to review it all.
I hatched some new ideas, I want to try out, when editing, so on one evening I started. 4h later I already had more than 30 seconds edited. Couple days later, this Saturday, to be precise, I decided to continue. However I ran out of 360 footage, I had converted to the format, my editing software can consume. So, going over what I had achieved that far already and seeing there is nothing big to fix, I rebooted the PC and proceeded to boot in to Windows, because the insta360 studio is not yet supported under Linux and these rare occasions, I still need to use the dreaded operating system by smallest and softest company of the world. You can imagine my surprise, when I was presented with texts about windows doing diagnostics and trying to repair itself, after which a joyful notice appeared, that nothing can be done, and I should probably bin my PC.
My small lonesome IT wizardry string of dna activated and I tried to recover the system. Not files, because I do not really keep anything vital on operating system disks\partitions. But I wanted to get it working quick. But because I do not have an internet cable, that could reach the PC, it was unable to connect to the cloud, to download required files for repairing itself. Not to worry, I dug up an empty dvd (to anyone young here, DVD is an ancient way of storing data, used ages ago) and used my laptop to burn windows installation disk. I inserted it in to the PC, after which the dvd-rom made very surprised sounds, about being disturbed after so many years of being idle, and decided it was not feeling like cooperating. I then proceeded to attempt the same, with USB stick. The result was still not repairing the system, because that failed on all levels, but I had to reinstall the whole operating system from scratch.
Right. Now to refresh my memory, and get back the rhythm of the already made part of the edit, and then still try to get some clips converted. But wait, installing Windows has replaced the boot manager and my Linux partition is no longer listed. I made some noises to express my happiness. My neighbors now probably think I keep tigers indoors. Re-installed GRUB boot manager and listed the necessary options. Everything seems to be working now. I converted few of the clips and discovered that I had already spent better part of the day for all of this, when I only thought to spend an hour or maybe two tops.
We all have had camera trouble, with losing footage and there are several threads about that. What happened to me did not quite fit under any of the ones I found though. I still have all the footage. I have the project files and I will continue editing the video, so nothing was lost, but time and some nerve cells.
I went to an event and recorded a lot of footage. Like, a lot, compared to how much I usually record. The curse of having more than one camera, that I am beginning to understand more and more. It has not happened before, that I return from one day event, with close to 100GB of footage. Surely most of this will not end up in the edit, but I still need to review it all.
I hatched some new ideas, I want to try out, when editing, so on one evening I started. 4h later I already had more than 30 seconds edited. Couple days later, this Saturday, to be precise, I decided to continue. However I ran out of 360 footage, I had converted to the format, my editing software can consume. So, going over what I had achieved that far already and seeing there is nothing big to fix, I rebooted the PC and proceeded to boot in to Windows, because the insta360 studio is not yet supported under Linux and these rare occasions, I still need to use the dreaded operating system by smallest and softest company of the world. You can imagine my surprise, when I was presented with texts about windows doing diagnostics and trying to repair itself, after which a joyful notice appeared, that nothing can be done, and I should probably bin my PC.
My small lonesome IT wizardry string of dna activated and I tried to recover the system. Not files, because I do not really keep anything vital on operating system disks\partitions. But I wanted to get it working quick. But because I do not have an internet cable, that could reach the PC, it was unable to connect to the cloud, to download required files for repairing itself. Not to worry, I dug up an empty dvd (to anyone young here, DVD is an ancient way of storing data, used ages ago) and used my laptop to burn windows installation disk. I inserted it in to the PC, after which the dvd-rom made very surprised sounds, about being disturbed after so many years of being idle, and decided it was not feeling like cooperating. I then proceeded to attempt the same, with USB stick. The result was still not repairing the system, because that failed on all levels, but I had to reinstall the whole operating system from scratch.
Right. Now to refresh my memory, and get back the rhythm of the already made part of the edit, and then still try to get some clips converted. But wait, installing Windows has replaced the boot manager and my Linux partition is no longer listed. I made some noises to express my happiness. My neighbors now probably think I keep tigers indoors. Re-installed GRUB boot manager and listed the necessary options. Everything seems to be working now. I converted few of the clips and discovered that I had already spent better part of the day for all of this, when I only thought to spend an hour or maybe two tops.
