Question for EX1 owners

[Scot Lenter]

Does your laptop have a USB port?
Then what’s the problem?

Scot Lenter
Midtown Video
Miami, Florida
Service Manager
Rental Agent
scot@midtownvideo.com
305-669-1117

[Michael Palmer]

“When recording at the 35/Mb data rate to the cards, can you still send a signal out via the 1394 port that they are now calling the HDV port?”
No, there is only one encoder inside the camera and it can’t compress two different compression levels at the same time.

My hope was that Sony would unleash the compression to the new 50Mbps 4:2:2 XD Cam level. This would be the easiest thing for Sony to do but I’m sure it would really P O anyone who stepped up for the new 700. Oh well, I’ll just have to wait for Convergent Design, because they will allow EX camera owners to go beyond the HQ level with their Flash XDR HD-SDI Recorder coming out very soon. This still won’t get you were you want to go because you either get HDV from the SP mode and HD-SDI from the HQ mode, but when you see the quality of what the EX cameras will do with less compression you won’t be worried about HDV scopes.

https://www.convergent-design.com/

Good Luck
Michael Palmer

[David Smith]

[Scot Lenter] “Does your laptop have a USB port?
Then what’s the problem?
“

Thanks for the reply Scot. I’m trying to see a live feed from the camera that I can monitor on the laptop. I’m not aware that that can be done via usb.

Regards,
David

[Scot Lenter]

Ooooh. Haha sorry but you didn’t mention that. As far as I know you will need to bring some sort of capture card along then. Didn’t mean to insult you, just didn’t realize your application.

Scot Lenter
Midtown Video
Miami, Florida
Service Manager
Rental Agent
scot@midtownvideo.com
305-669-1117

[David Smith]

[Michael Palmer] “No, there is only one encoder inside the camera and it can’t compress two different compression levels at the same time. “

Thanks Michael. To clarify, it won’t send the 35Mb stream out live via 1394 either, correct?

Regards,
David

[David Smith]

No worries Scot, I should make my questions clearer. Sounds like you are right, I’ll have to bring along one of my V3HD boxes when I need to get into a laptop live.

Regards,
David

[Nick Righton]

You can only send a digital signal out of the firewire port when filming in SP mode (aka 25Mbit HDV 1080i 60). If you use the firewire output it disables the HDSDI output as well.

I wish I was good at one thing rather than average at many, but oh well.

[Don Greening]

Nick is correct. The EX firewire port is for HDV only. Sony’s thought is that you can connect an HDV deck or camera via FW and record to that while also recording to the SxS Pro cards. If you want to record to an external device using the HQ 35 VBR setting you’ll have to use the SDI port.

– Don

[David Smith]

Thank you for the information everyone. There’s always some trade off when moving from one workflow to another I guess. Right now on this old 1.67 GHz PB I have two SD cameras feeding two separate feeds into Scopebox 2.0, each with its own preview and waveform palettes, side by side on my screen. Quite useful!

I’ll figure out some way.

Thanks,
David

[Mark Maness]

That is correct…

When they labeled the 1394 port as HDV, that means ONLY 25 mbit HDV thru that port. 35 mbit stream has never come thru the 1394 port on ANY Sony camera. Now, I don’t know if you can connect this to a laptop and use something like OnLocation. I can do this with the PDW-F350 camera but I can’t say for sure on the EX series.

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