A few bits about EX1 shutter, blurs and transfer

[Mark Palmos]

Hi Ron,
Hmm, well I often find strange things like that happening on a Mac, so I have VLC player to play what QT player does not… Try VLC, its extremely handy and free!
Till later
Mark.

[Craig Seeman]

That video clip is in APPLE XDCAM codec so someone would have to have Final Cut Pro 6.0.2 to play it. I believe one could also play it in VLC.

This is why what one archives is important. Archive off the card and anyone can use Sony Clip Browser (or apparently VLC) to play the video. Archive after using the Sony Transfer Tool into FCP and you have Apple XDCAM .mov file.

Windows Sony Clip Browser will convert to MXF. Apple Sony Clip Browser does NOT do that. But at least with Apple Sony Clip Browser you can do a direct copy.

Sony, you have to change that!

[Randy Strome]

Hi guys,
Thanks for the effort Mark. I get the same error as Ron on Windows, and the same set of options. Downloaded VLC, and although no error is diplayed, no video will play. Would it be possible to post the clip straight from the card?

Best, Randy

[Mark Palmos]

Hi
Yeah, i can do that, but am at work now, no camera here, and am going out tonight, so when i get back… late!
till later
mark

[Ron Shook]

Randy,

[Randy strome] “Downloaded VLC, and although no error is diplayed, no video will play.”

Same with me. If he uploads it straight from the card, will it play with VLC or do I need to get the clip brower?

Ron Shook

[Mark Palmos]

HI guys, good news and bad
i had deleted the clip off the card
good news
change .mov to .mp4 and i managed to play it with windows media player CLASSIC (it must be classic, ie 6.4)
im not sure whether i co-incidentally have some plugin which was pre installed, but classic plays the clip, VLC on windows does not.
the colour was beefed up in the shot i did, but it looks considerably more oversaturated on my pc, or perhaps the codec or whatever on windows.
if that does not work for you, i will shoot something else this weekend.

till later
xmark.

[Mark Palmos]

https://www.finalcutpro.tv/748_0033_01.MP4

by some chance, i had been testing the splitting of files and still had this split bit of the original shot, enough to see the blur I mean…

[Randy Strome]

IE is choking on the file, so I will try to repost as a link for right click / download:

https://www.finalcutpro.tv/748_0033_01.MP4

[Ron Shook]

Mark,

[Mark Palmos] “enough to see the blur I mean…”

I can finally see your footage. Had no joy before. Yeah you can see the blur, but it’s not as bad as I’d feared. Still better than SD.

Ron Shook

[Mark Palmos]

hi ron
the softness is odd though, im not used to seeing something so incredibly sharp, and do a tiny camera movement, and suddenly it is not so sharp anymore… ive never seen that using tape and it s quite disconcerting to me.

i will do more tests sometime soon, but i shot some interview footage last night, looked gorgeous by and large, but occasionally it looked soft just for a fraction of a second, and afterwards I was wondering if the autofocus was on by mistake, but it was not AFAIK… so will do some conscious tests this weekend. Im fearing that 90% of the image has to be static or the image will become obviously softer (please god im wrong!)
catcha later ron
mark.