Blog Post: Thank Goodness for Small Favors
… or …
“You would think that someone who works in IT
would have more than one file storage location!
Every so often, I think that I suddenly develop an “Anti-Technology Aura” or something. First, I spend over an hour this morning trying to keep my camera working while filming a new course playthrough, only to have to footage turn out to be totally unusable. I finally figure out that the external battery that I was using was causing the camera to overheat and shut down. Thinking that I had finally solved the problem (by turning the camera off between shots), I finished the round and brought the footage home to transfer the files from the camera storage to my portable SSD storage until I could do the post-production. Looking at the footage (to make sure that everything looked ok), I found that the overheating issue had also cause the camera to “forget” that it was attached to an external microphone, so most of my description and banter — except when I was directly facing the camera — was unintelligible. THEN, deciding to use the rest of the day to begin editing the footage that I had from the Lake Marshall Open, I discovered that my raw footage storage drive was also dead, and (apparently) unrecoverable. While the loss of the Lake Marshall footage isn’t much of a loss (since I played so poorly that I really didn’t want to relive the event during post-production!), all of my other raw footage, raw images, project files, and video rendering timelines are now gone. THANKFULLY, the finished videos are on YouTube, as well as on a second device that I use for storage of my completed projects.
SO…
Now I get to:
A) Change the Lake Marshall Open “Post Mortem” page to say that there is no video footage forthcoming.
B) Go to the local electronics store to pick up a 2-pack (!!!) of long term storage drives.
C) Send a quick message to my IT co-workers letting them know what happened, since we use the same brand and type of drives for some long-term storage and backup processes.
D) Get as far away from any electronic devices as I can, since I currently seem to be some kind of electronic “Typhoid Mary!”