EX1 Firmware Update

[Rafael Amador]

https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/142/873916#873916

http://www.nagavideo.com

[Craig Seeman]

Sony USA quoted me $130 to do it. I’d rather pay $130 and wait a few days than risk $3000 repair or weeks turnaround shipping camera to Japan and back.

[Chris Dolan]

I guess I will find the Sony center in Beijing. I originally didn’t want to deal with the hassle of finding it, getting there (Beijing’s traffic is horrendous) waiting a couple of days, and spending the money. I thought it would be simple enough to do it myself, as I am technically competent, however it sounds like it isn’t worth the risk. I just don’t understand why the camera is so sensitive, why a simple firmware update could fry the motherboard.

Chris Dolan

[Chris Dolan]

I thought I’d update this thread because I successfully updated the firmware myself. This is offered as a data point, not to discredit those who advised against the DIY approach. As it is currently my only camera, much consideration was given to the associated risks.

I searched high and low for an actual, authorized Sony service center in Beijing and came up empty. The only location listed on Sony’s website was in Shanghai, and those that I found in Beijing were questionable. I called SIM Video in Beijing and spoke to Ansen, who stated he had done the upgrade himself on a number of cameras. Considering that Ansen did the upgrade simply by following the instructions, I figured I should be able to do it myself with almost the same risk. I didn’t trust any of the other “service centers” I found in my search, and felt I am potentially more competent or at least as competent as anyone else based on what I’ve seen here for so-called ‘technicians.’ Ansen reassured me by saying I shouldn’t have any problems if I just follow the instructions, so I did.

The upgrade went smoothly and the camera is showing version 1.25 installed. It also accepts a recently purchased Hoodman SxS adapter with 32 gig SD card, so far with no errors. The only change I’ve noticed is a reduction in the available memory on the SxS cards. A 16 gig card shows 55 minutes where it previously indicated 57 minutes, even with a re-format.

I do appreciate the advice given here and respect the collective expertiese, but I wanted to offer an opinion and data point that this can be done successfully if the instructions are properly followed.

Chris Dolan

[Michael Palmer]

Chris there has been 2 firmware updates that I know of and the first update wasn’t something Sony wanted the end user to do because it was a two part firmware flash, somehow this firmware was found on a Sony site from a country I can’t recall and it was very risky for some to try and install, and I believe it was a PC only software. I believe this was the update that most people should allow Sony to install however I found a reliable PC and did it myself holding my breath. I believe the update you did is straight forward and most people shouldn’t have any issues.

Good Luck
Michael Palmer

[Craig Seeman]

[Michael Palmer] ” most people shouldn’t have any issues.”

That’s the catch. While Sony’s new firmware update can be done by the enduser and is easy on the newer EX cameras as it can be done on the SxS card, older EX1 cameras need to use the hidden USB port. Again most people shouldn’t have any issues with that either but if you DO have an issue you’ve bricked your camera sans warranty and the repair is circa $3000. As Clint Eastwood used to say in Dirty Harry, “Do you feel lucky?” In this case luck in on your side but there are enough stories about bricked cameras that it would be safer to have Sony do the update for $130 and then they can take care of it if luck should not be with them. Some people might find the $130 “insurance” of a Sony Service update over the small risk of a bricked camera with a $3000 repair bill.

[Liam Iandoli]

I own a Sony Pmw-Ex1 camcorder and a macbook pro with express 34 slot and am experiencing some trouble with my media management. I have downloaded xd cam transfer v 2.12.0 from sony’s site and it was working fine but then a warning started to show up when I inserted an sxs card which read:

Failed to compile statement ‘select t3.UMID from CLIPMETADATA as t1 outer join MEDIAINFO as t2 outer join MEDIAID as t3 where t1.KEYFRAMECLIPID is not null and t2.DISCID = 156 and t1.UMIDID = t2.UMIDID and t1.UMIDID = t3.ID;’ (1: RIGHT and FULL OUTER JOINs are not currently supported)

i have also noticed that when I boot the software all ticks are green apart from 1 red warning that says missing xd cam drive software. do I have to completely remove the software and start again somewhere?

I currently have v1.20 firmware on my camcorder and would like to upgrade, if that will help, i’ve seen the threads on here and will send it to a sony centre in the uk somewhere.

[Julien Ober]

Hi,

Same message with XdcamEx3 on Mac Book Pro / XdCam Transfer 2.12.0.

Error Scanning Device
Failed to compile statement ‘select t2.UMID from CLIPMETADATA as t1 outer join MEDIAID as t2 outer join MEDIAINFO as t3 where t1.KEYFRAMECLIPID in ( 21, 20 ) and t1.UMIDID = t2.ID and t1.UMIDID = t3.UMIDID and t3.DISCID = 6;’ (1: RIGHT and FULL OUTER JOINs are not currently supported)

All ticks for Installed Components are green.

XdCam Firmware is 1.04.0084 so maybe too old for Xdcam Transfer?

Once I passed the Warnning messages (one for each occupied slot of the camera) everything seem to work normally : importation and quality of pictures are ok.

What could be the problem of this warning message. Could it be a problem for later during the editing of the movie?

Thanks for help,

Julien

[Jason Kabrich]

I just started getting the exact same error message. I used this camera (PMW-EX1) about three weeks ago and everything worked fine. Tonight I got the message but the camera and footage still work fine. Could this be MAC OSX 10.7.1? I just updated…

[Keith Golinski]

Error Scanning Device

Failed to compile statement ‘select t3.UMID from CLIPMETADATA as t1 outer join MEDIAINFO as t2 outer join MEDIAID as t3 where t1.KEYFRAMECLIPID is not null and t2.DISCID = 1 and t1.UMIDID = t2.UMIDID and t1.UMIDID = t3.ID;’ (1: RIGHT and FULL OUTER JOINs are not currently supported)

I’m getting the same thing here. I have the latest version of firmware on my EX1. Sent it to Sony.
XDCAM Transfer V.2.12.0

I recently migrated to a new MacBook Pro with Lion and I have a feeling it’s a Lion thing. A bunch of programs had issues.

The video imports no problem and cuts fine on the time line. Just hate having a warning popup.

Keith Golinski
Fulvew.com