PMW-EX1 Stutter on Movement

[Craig Seeman]

Without specific settings or details on how you are monitoring it’s hard to say. Also do you understand the general recommended limits when shooting 24p and panning? These are not at all specific to EX. 24p has temporal motion limits when panning. That’s why 60p or 60i are often used for sports.

[Don Greening]

[Rajnesh Domalpalli] “The problem seems to be independent of what setting I use.”

Maybe you should be a little more specific about what settings you’re referring to. For example, are you shooting with auto focus?

– Don

[Rajnesh Domalpalli]

Don and Craig, Thanks so much for replying.

I used the following settings on my PMW-EX1 (given at Bottom).
and also uploaded a clip 46.2Meg 1280×720 QuickTime movie here. The Video was originally shot on 1920×1080 with the settings given below, then imported into FCP and Exported to the smaller format for upload.

In the Video you see the Camera Pan along with the Subject.
The trouble I’m having is with the Subject intermittently going in and out of focus/ becoming blurry.
Why is this and what can I do to alleviate the problem?

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CAMERA BUTTONS
Iris : Manual
Macro: Off
Focus: Manual
Zoom: Servo
AF/MF Right: Pushed to MF
ND Filter: Off
Gain: Low
Full Auto Light is Green
White Balance: PRST

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CAMERA SET
Gain Setup: Low
Shutter->Mode: Speed ShutterSpeed:1/96
EX Slow Shutter->Setting: Off
Shot Transition->Trans Speed: 5 Time/Speed: Speed Trans Curve: SoftStop StartTimer: Off RecLink:Off
MF Assist: On
Color Bar Type: Multi
Flicker Reduce->Mode: Auto Frequencey:50Hz
Zoom Speed-> High:70 Low: 30 Remote: 50
Interval Rec-> Setting: Off Interval Time: 1sec Num of Frames: 1
Frame Rec-> Setting: Off Num of Frames: 1
S&Q Motion-> Setting: Off Frame Rate: 30
Rec Review: 3 Sec
Fader-> Fade In: Off Fade In Type: Black Fade In Time 2 sec Fade Out: Off Fade Out Type: Black
TLCS-> Level: 0 Mode: Standard Speed: +50 AGC Limit: 12db AGC Point: F2.8
Shockless White: 2
White Switch: ATW
ATW Speed : 3
Wide Conversion: Off
Steady Shot: On
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VIDEO SET
YpBpPr/ SDI Out Select : HD
YPbPr/ SDI Out Display: On
24P System : 60i
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Thanks in advance.
Regards,
Rajnesh

[Craig Seeman]

I don’t think you understand some of the basics.
What frame rate?

[Rajnesh Domalpalli] “Shutter->Mode: Speed ShutterSpeed:1/96”
That’s one way to increase stutter. You want more motion blur not less. Shutter speed relative to frame rate impacts motion blur.

You really need some basic understanding of Cinematography. We probably can’t give all that info here since you seem to be at newest of newbie level. There’s lots of good training DVDs out there.

You need to understand basic concepts like frame rates, shutter speed, temporal resolution. You need to understand the impact those choices have on the image and when and why one would change them. Then there’s how you, the operator, handle motion when panning relative to the frame rate.

[Phoniox Glade]

Did you ever work out how to get around this as I’m suffering from a similar issue and I know it’s how I’m using the EX1R but don’t know how to fix it