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  • Sony PMW-EX1

    Posted by Tony Sarafoski on March 27, 2008 at 10:11 am

    URGENT……PLEASE…!!!

    I’ve hired a Sony PMW-EX1 camera for a shoot tomorrow and only just thought to take the camera out and do some tests.

    I’ve shot a few shots around the house and have transferred the files to my desktop to only find Vegas 7.0e won’t read the files.

    What do I do???? I have to use this camera on a shoot I’m doing tomorrow morning and now don’t know if I can edit these mp4 files with Vegas 7.0e

    David Shirey replied 18 years, 1 month ago 4 Members · 5 Replies
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  • Tony Sarafoski

    March 27, 2008 at 11:29 am

    Sorry guys all cool I did some further forum searching and found that I needed XDCAM EX Clip Browsing Software V1.1

    https://www.sony.co.uk/biz/view/ShowContent.action?site=biz_en_GB&contentId=1193315622075

    Just converted the clips to xmf and sure enough, clips dropped straight on Vegas 7.0e timeline. Yeeppiiii…..

    Ok now the only problem I’m seeing is, I’ve down converted the footage to SD 16×9 Widescreen and as I do a walk through my house, I notice like a jittering effect on horizontal line.

    Whats that all about?

  • Tony Sarafoski

    March 27, 2008 at 11:44 am

    I’ve got a weird feeling I will be shoot down
    😉

    Ok what I did wrong was I dropped the 1920×1080 50i mxf file on a PAL DV Widescreen (720×576, 25.000 fps) project.

    When I print to tape, the footage on my preview monitor jittered on horizontal lines.

    So I restarted a new project: File/Properties/Template: and selected the HD 1080-50i (1920×1080, 25.000 fps) template.

    I then placed the mxf files on the timeline and rendered them back out as PAL DV Widescreen AVI and you wont believe it, abracadabra perfect SD 16×9 AVIs with no jitter.

    I think its getting late….!!!

  • Adam Rose esq.

    March 27, 2008 at 1:03 pm

    hehehehe – thanks for your conversation of one. am sure it will be useful to others

    🙂

  • Jerry Waters

    March 27, 2008 at 2:30 pm

    I found it interesting. I’ll probably get one next.

    JerryW

  • David Shirey

    March 27, 2008 at 4:46 pm

    We just got our first PMW-EX1 at the office (I’m the only one using Vegas 8, everyone else uses Final Cut 5) and the HD footage looks great. Unfortunately we have no way to give clients HD footage yet, and the DVD’s of it don’t really look better than the ones we made from our Sony DSR-300’s, with the exception that it is now widescreen which I love. Editing will be nicer when we get some widescreen monitors, but I think most of the money will have to go towards those memory cards for a while. Good riddance real-time digitizing!

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