Michael Slowe
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I’m not sure what he means either but what disappears for me are the arrows that enable me to place a title elsewhere in the frame other than the centre where it goes automatically when typed. I have the greatest difficulty in getting a title exactly where I want it, it used to be easy to drag, now it ain’t.
Michael Slowe
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Rafael, I use it in conjunction with BitVice when encoding a .mov exported from an HD timeline in Media 100 and it’s brilliant. Only set at a small number mind you and maybe it suits the Media 100 colour space which is different from most other edit systems.
Michael Slowe
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Jordan, I fully appreciate your position, actually I try and avoid using lights anyway, God’s light does me for most of the time. Personally I hardly ever have a noise problem with the EX1 but there is a very good software programme that helps, that’s Innobits Purifier. I use it in conjunction with their wonderful DVD encoder, BitVice, but it is an application in its own right. Look it up, well worth a shot.
Michael Slowe
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Go easy Paul, a grand? Dollars or pounds? I’d certainly pay £500 but not a lot more. We’ve no hope though, Sony really don’t understand our situation, you only have to look at how they handled the Blu-Ray encoding for small production outfits. Thank goodness people like Toast have at least now made this possible.
Michael Slowe
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Yes, I’m sure it must be a marketing issue. But not all of us EX users (any?) are candidates for the bigger cameras but would like the 50mbps so what are Sony afraid of? Why can’t Ian get authority to be more ‘up front’ with us loyal Sony customers? I agree that many of us documentary makers don’t want to clutter our cameras with even more gear strapped on, we have enough to contend with already, brilliant though the Convergent Design Nano surely is.
Michael Slowe
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How come Michael Palmer is so sure that it would only take a firmware upgrade for us users of EX cameras to record at 50mbps when Ian Cook says no? Is he, on behalf of Sony, being coy or is Michael Palmer really mistaken?
Michael Slowe
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I faced exactly your situation some years back.
I was advised to use the encoding software BitVice and never regretted it. The latest versions produce wonderful quality SD DVD’s from an HD timeline. Their downscaling is really good and the results are, in my opinion and experience, superior to that obtained by using Compressor.
Blu-Ray is another matter altogether and I am just embarking on that road by using Titanium Toast 10 to do the encode. In which case of course there is no necessity for a downscale but you have to have a BD burner of course.
Michael Slowe
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Well the very highest settings are not always a good thing because many players cannot play them and you get ‘stutter’. If you are sending the DVD’s to other people therefore you want to be quite sure they’ll play correctly.
I do not find that Compressor is the best application for encoding. I use the specialist DVD encoding software made by the Swedish company Innobits and it’s called BitVice which is universally highly regarded. It gives you the opportunity of choosing an average bit rate (I use about 6.75) and if set for a VBR it makes two passes and gives really good quality DVD’s and prepares both the m2v and ac3 files.
If you are editing on an HD timeline have you thought about making a Blu-Ray disc or are you concerned that there aren’t enough Blu-Ray players around yet?
Michael Slowe
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Daniel, I go further back than that. A & B roll editing FILM ! No problem with rendering or expensive edit suites. Cut all the footage into clips, actually see what you have, splice it all as you want it, synced up with your mag film audio. We did need a lab though to fuse it all together.
Michael Slowe
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Keith, no need to send the camera to Sony for firmware upgrade if you have a really good supplier. I have twice had successful upgrades done in minutes by a Sony trained engineer at my suppliers.
Michael Slowe