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Doe Canon cameras still have sync issues with FCP? Gerry?
Gerry, I have your DVD that I bought about 3 years back and I remember you explaing about a check box for Canon cameras because they don’t (unlike DVCAM) hold sync so I will aim this post at you.
Has Canon sorted the FCP sync problem yet? or has Apple sorted it?
I know a few years back when I had an XL1 and FCP3 they were simply incompatible due to the fact that Canon (unlike DVCAM) does not lock the audio. In fact, Final Cur Pro 3 had a check box in the prefs just for those using Canon cameras.
Personally, I found that, checked or unchecked didn’t make any difference and any clip over 5 minutes started to drift out of sync and even many small clips making up a 1 hour programme did the same thing. Over 1 hour I found that at the end of the hour the sound and images were about 1 second out; dreadful.
So, I sold the XL1 and got DVCAM instead.
Well, not I’m on the very latest FCP Studio package and am looking at a second camera that is native widescreen. JVC GY-HD101E seems to be out as I keep hearing about reliability issues, especially with power/transformers and cams just packing up. So, the XL2 seems like another alternative. I have two questions.
1. Will the XL2 and FCP5 still have those old anying (rendering the combo of Canon and FCP useless) sync issues?
2. Is the picture quality of the XL2 better than the XL1? (I had an XL1 and was not impressed with it’s image quality after I compaired it with a freinds JVC GY-GD500).
3. If I mix footage in FCP on same timeline from XL2 and Sony Z1 will there be issues. I’m talking straight SD 720×576 PAL footage here, not HDV.
Thanks guys
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Check back @ the Canon Forum.
– Don
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I’ve not read a lot of problems with XL-2’s like we had with XL-1’s…
You shouldn’t have a problem mixing the cameras technically, but the look of the two cameras is likely to be quite different from each other so you’d have to color correct one or the other I’d think.
Might want to see if you can’t match the two cameras… you have a PD-150 or 170? Seems to me you could find a matching camera pretty easily, even if you had to look for a used one. Even then though, they’ll need some color correction to match exactly, just seems to me that it would be easier to do.
Jerry
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Good advice as usaul.
Cheers Jerry
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