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<p>Sound devices,<br /> <br /> So I was doing a corporate gig and it was an interview with a woman, simple setup boom and lav.<br /> We shot around 8 hours and we did 10 scenes, the 744 was recording as usual until scene 5, what I mean is that the files on the hdd where perfect and from scene 5 on, all the files are between 3mb and. 20 mb. While the first takes where around 150mb.<br /> The recorder indicated I was recording on the hdd but it was slow on the CF, I couldn't stop the take, so we kept rolling with the 744 indicating recording on the hdd<br /> My surprise came when I handed the files, the editor called me in stating half of the footage wasn't there and the files where cut before talent got to speak (in the middle of a sentence), I do recall that when I started recording everything was fine up to minute 2:30 where the cf stopped and the hdd continued.<br /> There was 8 gigs free on the HDD, and the CF were formatted before putting them in ,I tried different brands and speeds while on set (san disk, Kingston 6mb/s and 133x) nothing worked, menu said slow in both backups, cf and hdd , I turned down the system, let it cool off and back in. Same thing.<br /> I wasn't running a backup because it wasn't needed on this specific shoot, I was told to bring a light sound setup, and no sound on camera, just the sound from the 7d's. they wanted separate recordings.<br /> My solutions were:<br /> I told my client not to pay me, because I didn't deliver what they expected from me, and also I offered my postproduction services for free, if anybody knows a better option, I'm very open to suggestion on how to approach this situation.<br /> Basically my client believes I did knew my recorder wasnt rolling, and I didn't stopped the shoot, hardware error = sound guy blame<br /> I checked files inside the recorder and it was the same issue than the files on the computer.<br /> <br /> If anybody can help would be highly appreciated.<br /> <br /> Cheers</p>