XDcamHD 350

[Nate Weaver]

Not really. But it will do intervals from 1 frame per second to 1 frame every hour or day, and a lot in between.

[Alan Lacey]

Thanks Nate, but it sort of buggers up the stop frame workflow doesn’t it?

Shame, after months of research and not one single thing against this being the PERFECT camera for my needs and workflow, to give it one black ball. It’ll definitely not stop me buying it though.

Alan

[Carroll Lam]

Actually you can shoot one frame at a time on an abitrary schedule with the F330/F350.

Just set the interval recording time to something more than a second or so, start the recording process and after the frame is recorded stop the recording. Repeat this process whenever a new frame recording is desired.

Carroll Lam

[Alan Lacey]

Thanks Carroll I was hoping there would be a way around this. Obviously it would be better to do this via the remote control would this be possible? And just how fiddly will this process be – literally just a start recording push, followed by a stop one?

BTW in my recent XDcam researches I’ve seen your name pop up a lot – well done.

Alan in PALland

[Carroll Lam]

>Obviously it would be better to do this via the remote control would this be possible? < Yep. The F330/F350 remote control can stop and start the recording process. Thanks for the nice words! Carroll Lam

[Nate Weaver]

I just tried that method Carroll, trying to get three frames, and I wound up getting 3 two second clips on disc. I had the camera set to 1 frame every 10 seconds.

The shortest a clip can be due to GOP issues is 2 seconds.

The 3 clips I got had normal motion in them, as if interval recording was off. I have to say I was skeptical of that method, because the manual states the shortest clip that can be written to disc is 2 seconds.

Perhaps if you did this for 48 frames, you could get a single clip…I don’t know.

[Carroll Lam]

>the manual states the shortest clip that can be written to disc is 2 seconds.< Well, of course you are correct, Nate. That minimum clip time is something that I had forgotten. So, I guess the options for stop frame animation would be to either set the interval time to a value large enough that allows one to change the animation setup between frame collections (and collect at least 2 seconds of runtime frames per record period, or run the camera's video output into a pc and use the pc to grab frames when desired. Carroll Lam

[Alan Lacey]

Oh yes I’d forgotten the gop. Blast it, sort of spoils the whole process doesn’t it?

What about in DVcam mode (SD)? I guess the problem shouldn’t affect that.

Alan

[Alan Lacey]

So when the manual says ‘one frame every hour’ it really means ‘one two second clip every hour’? I can’t see this working for time lapse very well – or even at all!!!

Alan

[Nate Weaver]

[Alan Lacey] “So when the manual says ‘one frame every hour’ it really means ‘one two second clip every hour’? I can’t see this working for time lapse very well”

No, if you let the time-lapse run as designed, you get exactly what you’d expect. It’s just that if you keep hitting the record button, you interrupt the usual process and you get individual clips, each 2 seconds long no matter what.

I’ve done timelapses of clouds and cars at 1 frame per second, and one frame every 4 seconds. It works beautifully and easily.

Also, be aware that under and overcranking doesn’t work in DVCAM mode. I don’t recall if timelapse works in DV either, I’m guessing it does not. In those cases you’d have to shoot HD and let the camera downconvert via firewire for you or downconvert in your NLE