On Location With The XDCAM Ex?

[Joe Yaggi]

Hi Don,

Thanks for your reply. I’ve downloaded the Convergent Design info.

I was referring to Simon Wyndham but what I read was that there would be a firm ware update for cache recording where, like the F900, Varicam etc, your camera, in standby, is logging what it sees so when you hit record, like trying to get some furry creature doing some weird furry creature habit, you’ve got the previous 3-7 seconds as soon as you hit record…

Anyone aware of that or was I being dyslexic again?

Joe

Joe Yaggi
Creative Supervisor, Director, DP
Jungle Run Productions
http://www.jungle-run.com

[Rafael Amador]

Hi Joe,
Thanks for the replay.
I’ve been having a look to your web site. Very interesting works. I wish I could have a team as yours.
If you ever think of coming to film in Laos, look for me in the Cow.
Rafael

PPC G5 2x2Gh 4GbRAM/BlackMagic SD/PMBP 17″Core2Duo 4GbRAM
JVC DTV-17″/FCS2/AE CS3/COMBUSTION/SHAKE

[Joe Yaggi]

Hey thanks Rafa,

I really appreciate that and I’ll take you up on that offer one day. In fact, a buddy of mine just opened a bar in Ventienne (can’t think of the name, way to late for thinking 🙂 and we’ve been threatening to descend!

Best,

Joe

Joe Yaggi
Creative Supervisor, Director, DP
Jungle Run Productions
http://www.jungle-run.com

[Don Greening]

[Joe Yaggi] “so when you hit record, like trying to get some furry creature doing some weird furry creature habit, you’ve got the previous 3-7 seconds as soon as you hit record…
“

Right. I heard about that rumour as well, but don’t know squat about whether this is a built in feature of the EX that can be activated at some future date or not. It’s a VERY cool feature that would be a blessing for wild life shooters, especially. Having something like a 20 sec. RAM buffer in-camera that constantly updates like a revolving door would be just about right.

The big boy cameras have that feature and now I’m wondering if Sony will choose to keep something like that reserved for the bigger XDCAMS, along with 4 channel 48k PCM audio. Sony probably could have made the latter feature available in the EX but then there would be no incentive for EX owners to upgrade to the other XDCAM family members.

– Don

[Rafael Amador]

Hi Joe,
If for any chance your friends name is Marc Stokcwell, the name of his bar is: Martini.
Careful Joe, if you love jungles and white-waters, you may don’t want to leave this country:-)
Rafael

PPC G5 2x2Gh 4GbRAM/BlackMagic SD/PMBP 17″Core2Duo 4GbRAM
JVC DTV-17″/FCS2/AE CS3/COMBUSTION/SHAKE

[Mark Palmos]

[Craig Seeman] “Sony also says you can change the .mp4 to .ts and the resultant file can be played on Blu-ray player or PS3 (which is a Blu-ray player).”

Craig, I wonder if you can change the .mov to .ts to do the same trick? If not, wihout any other equimpent one would have to double up on transfers to the mac.

I dont have a blueray to try it on.

Mark

[Rafael Amador]

And why not with a standard DVD-5? The Compressor HD DVDs presets supports 29’4 Mbps VBR for 4.2.0 MPG2.
rafael

PPC G5 2x2Gh 4GbRAM/BlackMagic SD/PMBP 17″Core2Duo 4GbRAM
JVC DTV-17″/FCS2/AE CS3/COMBUSTION/SHAKE

[Craig Seeman]

[Rafael Amador] “And why not with a standard DVD-5? The Compressor HD DVDs presets supports 29’4 Mbps VBR for 4.2.0 MPG2. “

I’m not sure if HD-DVD supports Transport Streams. That could work if it did.
Just to be clear, changing the .mp4 extension to .ts doesn’t require any encoding. You copy the file, change the extension, burn to Blu-ray. It’s a fast way to give the client a master they can view. They’d only need a $300-$400 Blu-ray player.

[Rafael Amador]

Hi Craig,
Many new things to try.
If funny how many times is just a matter of changing the extension to make some files playable by QT.
Few days ago a friend of mine (PC user) brought me some . m2p (not .mp2) files that QT couldn’t open. Just changing the extension to .mpg they played fine. The same happens with the .DAT files that comes in the VCDs. They show up as Text files. But replacing .DAT by .mpg QT can play them well.
Rafael

PPC G5 2x2Gh 4GbRAM/BlackMagic SD/PMBP 17″Core2Duo 4GbRAM
JVC DTV-17″/FCS2/AE CS3/COMBUSTION/SHAKE