Best way to retrieve lost data from CF Card on Mac

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What’s a Compact Flash card?

Typically uses flash memory in a standardized enclosure, the Compact Flash (CF) card is a popular mass storage device format used in a variety of portable electronic equipments, such as cameras, camcorders, DSLRs, game devices, music players, etc. to store photos, videos, audio files and other multimedia files safely and to make their portability easier.

How to recover CF card data deleted, formatted or lost on Mac?

* Accidental deletion
* Pressing the reformat button in camera
* Various reasons of damage like low battery power, turning off on writing/reading, etc.
* And so forth

You may have lost your vital photos, videos and audio files from a CF card due to any reason above. As a matter of fact, the files are not completely erased from the CF card on the deletion or formatting. Only files names and properties are erased, the file content is still hanging around and recoverable. All you need is to get a CF (Compact Flash) card recovery Mac tool, which can help to retrieve all the contents. CF card Data Recovery for Mac (compatible with Mac OS X 10.9 Mavericks, 10.8(Mountain Lion), 10.7, 10.6, or 10.5) is one of that. Before acting, keep in mind that less operation on the CF card gives you higher chances to get lost files back.

Step 1. Connect your CF card to Mac

Connect your CF card to the Mac through proper adapters or the device directly. Download the free trial version of Canon CF card recovery from its official site and install it on your Mac computer. Then connect the CF card to computer via a card reader.

Step 2. Select the CF path for recovery

The program can detects all drives connected to the computer. On the drive list, select your CF card as target drive. Then click the “Start Scan” button to perform full scan of deleted photos on CF card..



Step 3. Recover CF card on Mac

After the complete scan, all the files found back are well listed in the scan result panel. Check the folders of audio, video(.mxf) and photo on the left, and then hit “Recover” to get them all back. Remember to save them on your Mac or other storage devices, but not the same CF card from which you lost them before due to safety of the file.



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Don’t save the recovered photos on your original Compact Flash card again. Find another place for safety’s sake. If you are a Windows user, please try CF card Data Recovery (compatible with Windows 8.1/8/7/Vista/XP) here to do Compact Flash data Recovery.

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Panasonic HC-V520 Live Streaming HD Camcorder features a 1/5.8" BSI MOS sensor for recording Full HD 1080/60p video in the AVCHD format. The 50x zoom lens has a fast f/1.8 max aperture and a 35mm equivalent of 28-1748mm, and the optical zoom is supplemented by an 80x Intelligent Zoom. Built-in Wi-Fi enables real time broadcasting via Ustream, and Near Field Communication technology allows users to connect a smartphone or tablet in one touch. Other features include a 3" LCD touchscreen monitor, Five Axis Hybrid OIS and iA Mode. The HD video camera stores videos in .mts format with MPEG-4 AVC/H.264 compression.

Final Cut Pro X, the latest version of video-editing software geared for professionals from a company increasingly focused on mainstream consumers. Final Cut Pro X is a follow-up to Final Cut Pro X, software Apple released in 2009 as part of Final Cut Studio. Like Apple’s newly released of Mac OS X Mavericks, Final Cut Pro X was only be available to customers through the Mac App Store. However, this new released FCP X does not support well with Panasonic HC-V520 1080 60p/50p AVCHD Videos.



So if you want to edit HC-V520 1080 60p/50p 28Mbps in Final Cut Pro X, you are recommended to use UFUSoft AVCHD Converter for Mac, which is the superior Mac Panasonic 60p/50p MTS to FCP X converter for Mountain Lion, Lion or Snow Leopard. It does not only convert Panasonic HC-V520 1080 60p/50p AVCHD to H.264 MOV on Mac, but also merges 1080 60p/50p MTS files for import into Final Cut Pro X.

Here is the step-by-step guide for you to import and edit Panasonic HC-V520 60p/50p MTS to H.264 MOV for Final Cut Pro X on iMac/MacBook Pro with Mac OS X like Mavericks, Mountain Lion, Lion, Snow Leopard, Leopard, Tiger.

Step 1. Load AVCHD 1080 60p/50p videos to Panasonic Video Converter for Mac.

After transferring .mts files from Panasonic HC-V520 camera, run UFUSoft AVCHD Converter for Mac as the best Mac 1080 60p/50p MTS to H.264 MOV converter, and click the “Add File” button to load .mts videos.

Step 2. Choose H.264/AVC MOV output format.

Click the “Format” option, choose the HD video > HD MOV Video (*.mov) as output format. We are choosing .mov format, as this is the Mac compatible file extension. You can keep the 60fps by clicking the “Settings” button and enter 60 for the frame rate option.



Step 3. Merge Panasonic AVCHD files. (optional)

Select all the files and then click “Merge”, and the Panasonic HC-V520 1080 60p/50p MTS converter will join and combine the video clips into a single file as output.

Step 4. Convert HC-V520 MTS to MOV for Final Cut Pro X.

Click the convert button under the preview window, the Mac Panasonic HC-V520 MTS converter starts converting 1080 60p/50p MTS videos to H.246 .mov, and joining the MTS files for editing in Final Cut Pro X.

After converting and merging the MTS files, just import the output files to Final Cut Pro X and the video is in HD 1920×1080. You can also import the output videos to Final Cut Express (FCE) 4 for editing in full HD.

Tips:

If you are using Final Cut Pro 5 or lower version, you can also choose HD video > HD MOV Video (*.mov) as output format for editing on Mac.

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