SD out of BNC EX1

[Michael Slowe]

Don’t know but that ‘tiny connector on the side’ is Firewire and just the job for SD video.

Michael Slowe

[Clint Fleckenstein]

Are you talking analog SD? I think that only comes out the “tiny connector” by the handgrip 🙂 If I remember correctly, and lately I’m not doing so well, it’s SDI only out of the BNC connector on the side, whether standard or high definition. One more reason why I like using our EX3 more than our EX1.

Cf

[Jim Mcnally]

I’ve been trying to get an output out of the EX3 firewire connector. The footage is shot in SP as indicated in the manual, i/o is enabled, cable connected to computer…

Is it supposed to show up on the desktop as a drive or similar to a deck when capturing? When I run log & capture within FCP I don’t see the camera.

I understand that the EX3 will downconvert footage but not seeing the connection to the camera yet?

Jim McNally
The Commercial Factory
http://www.commercialfactory.com

[Craig Seeman]

The firewire out is NOT a file transfer mechanism. It’s a LIVE out. I’ve actually used it to stream HD in Wirecast. It works fine.

USB is the only file based output from the camera.

[Jim Mcnally]

Ah okay, so the downconvert is only live then and not through the USB I imagine?

Jim McNally
The Commercial Factory
http://www.commercialfactory.com

[Craig Seeman]

I’m not sure what you’re saying.
firewire out is not a downconvert. It’s HDV compatible when camera is used in HDV compatible mode (SP).
USB is data file transfer
HD-SDI/SDI can be HD or SD (downconvert).

[Jim Mcnally]

Oh okay, the XDcam HD does output through firewire with downconversion so I thought the EX3 did as well.

thanks,

Jim McNally
The Commercial Factory
http://www.commercialfactory.com

[Craig Seeman]

[Jim McNally] “Oh okay, the XDcam HD does output through firewire with downconversion so I thought the EX3 did as well. “

I actually had a talk with Sony tech about downconvert through firewire for EX. The short version is that it could be done with a firmware update but as to whether it will be done is another story.

[Scot Lenter]

Craig,
I see that you said you have been using firewire to stream HD using Wirecast. We have been using wirecast taking SD-SDI into a blackmagic card because we felt like HD was too big a bandwidth for our customers to view and look nice. How has your experience been?

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

[Craig Seeman]

Exactly which Blackmagic card?
I haven’t tried it but I know people looking into this (note that I’m a Wirecast COW forum capo).

I’ve used Wirecast with its HDV plugin (needed to use HDV of course but not other HD sources). You can get a pretty good looking stream at 1500kbps but that is a bit high for many people. This was just a test I was running.

Ustream’s Watershed can support this and costs only $49/month or has a pay per use plan as well.