Can one have all clips show up on disc as 1 shot?

[Jay Gladwell]

Nope, because they aren’t.

A “shot” (take) is from camera on to camera off.

[Harry Pallenberg]

Bummer – strange – because you can do it on the JVC… would seem like it would be easy.

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[Jay Gladwell]

How is it done?

EDIT:

I think you may be referring to the issue of FAT32 on the SDHC cards, which automatically divides long takes into 12-13 minute clips. That is an *entirely* different thing.

It is NOT stitching together many shorter shots/takes. As I pointed out, it’s just the opposite.

[Bill Kunitz]

It’s hard to know exactly what you’re after. If the issue is wanting to see all the clips as one unit, if you are using FCP, it’s easy enough to drop a whole card onto a sequence. You can then view the sequence in fcp or export it as a self contained QT .mov file and you’ve got one ‘clip’ containing the entire card.

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[Harry Pallenberg]

No – not a fat32 isue…

this is from the JVC site about 1/2 way down:
https://pro.jvc.com/prof/attributes/tech_desc.jsp?model_id=MDL101851&feature_id=02

Continuous Clip Mode
In this mode, the GY-HM700 creates a single clip file from multiple trigger presses. This is ideal when “in camera editing” is preferred. The complete shot sequence is instantly available as a single clip. When recording in the Continuous Clip Mode, time code can be either free run or in the REC mode.

I also understand the new Panny 370 can do this.

And Bill – yes we can do that – but I was hoping to avoid any extra steps if we go with a SxS camera.

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[Jay Gladwell]

No, the EX cameras do not have a Continuous Clip Mode.

Is that more important to you than a superior image?

[Harry Pallenberg]

Yes at least for me researching the right workflow for my boss. And quite frankly the difference in image quality is fairly minute – especially when you consider how crushed it gets when it gets put in the server (compress) then sent out a pipe to the cable / sat company and then crushed again to your home (probably with lots of splitters) where it is viewed on a TV set that is totally miss calibrated.

We get plenty of comments about how good our HD show looks – not just from general population – but from engineers, other producers and occasionally a few shooters… when in fact its DigiBeta upped to HD.

Tell a compelling story and people will never know the difference…. or if people are seeing grain / noise in the shadows then the story must be pretty boring.

The 1-clip record is not a make or break… but one of many issues.

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