Al Bergstein
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Only caveat to checking it is that I’ve had my luggage end up sitting in a downpour on the tarmac at Houston, got the bags back thoroughly soaked. If you get a Pelican, make sure it’s going to be watertight. Wouldn’t metal be better than Pelican plastic for shipment???
FYI…I just bought a Petrol PCBP-1 backpack. It’s a bit tight of fit for the HMC-150, but it feels more like a standard backback, in fit and size. I’m planning on using it for backcountry work. It’s quite light, but a bit bulky, as they all are.
Alf
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What is your intended audience, and screen size?
Why I ask is this. The quality of my HMC 150, even in 720p, which I’ve read in reviews appears to be it’s ‘sweet spot’, is fabulous. My 720p video is just about every bit as great as my 1080. I’ve decided to shoot all future video I take at 720. However, here’s a thread comparing the two formats/cameras
https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/193/872934
I feel that my intended audience/screen size is video monitors, like home tvs, and smaller (iPods, etc.). I don’t intend to do any work for large screen production, and if I’m that lucky, I’ll rent a better camera. In the meantime, I’m saving money, getting fabulous HD format pictures, and feel like I’m not spending more than I need to. Do I know my camera’s limitation? Yep, but learning more everyday. Am I missing something?
Alf
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While I don’t know the specific answer for this, you might do a workaround. I routinely use the ADMIN account, but setup my personal account with admin privs. This allows me to not rely on the built in admin account of any Windows version. There are numerous posts on the Internet about how to setup you personal account with virtual admin privledges. This might satisfy the needs.
However, it would be really great if Sony clarified their need for admin privledges, and clearly stated that they will load with standard USER privledges. UNIX routinely does this, Windows has only recently been doing it. It’s time, with WIndows 7, to make this happen. Demand it, for the security of your hard build machine.
Alf
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John, I would question your upgrade thoughts. Why? Because if you upgrade to Vegas Video on 64bit Windows 7, you get to utilize as much RAM as you can in your machine. It should make large scale productions more feasible quickly.
I’ve loaded 64 bit VV 9.0c to Windows 7 64 bit, quad core, 6 GBs RAM, and have only experienced problems related to my HP crapware that has been bluescreening my video card drivers. I’ve eliminated this DVD stuff, in favor of simply relying on VV to drive my acquisition and video control, and it seems to work fine. No bluescreens since purging my machine of HPs consumer DVD packages. Fingers crossed.
The only reason I can see to not go to 64 bit, is that you may have plug in’s that don’t yet support 64 bit. I am doing my best to push them to get it done, when I find one. This memory use above 3GBs is too important, IMHO to not go there sooner than later. Especially with AVCHD files, for example.
Anyway, best of luck! Keep us informed of your progress.
Alf
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Have the camera, but the question arises because I’m considering the recorder, but did not want to get it if it didn’t work. After the holidays I’ll try contacting both SD and Panasonic reps to see if anyone has actually made it work. By what I read in Barry’s great book on the HMC150, it seems that it *should* work. Thanks for your input. When I get it working I’ll repost here, but it might be later next month.
The second part of the question is whether I *need* to be considering the SD field mixer or does the recorder do enough of a mix to not need the mixer? Or is all this all overkill and is there enough quality of sound and mix ability in the camera that I probably won’t need either of these add ons unless I’m shooting music or work with more than two mics?
Alf
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Did you try specifically installing Windows Media Player again? if that’s possible? It seems like it did not install the right codecs when you installed Win7. Not sure why. Isn’t Sony VV only supported running on Windows 7 64 bit? I’ve got some confusion on that since sony’s site claims either 32 or 64 bit Vista, but I thought I read somewhere that they were supporting 7 with 64 bit only. Or am I mistaken?
I also checked this out.
https://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows7/Codecs-frequently-asked-questionsDownload site for XP and Vista is here
https://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/player/11/default.aspx
Could it be downloaded for 7? Or I guess just use your original install disks. Could there have been an install option that you unchecked to not install the player???Hope this helps! Quite frustrating!
Alf
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Rob, in looking at my version of VV 9.0c, when I chooose Windows Media Video 11 for WMV for rendering (there are no other choices there), I get the following choices as default for audio:
Windows Media Audio 10 Pro
Windows Media Audio 9.2
Windows Media Audio Voice 9So unless your question was not correct, I’m unclear why you shouldn’t have the same choices, unless the 64 bit version is different from the 32. And again, my WMV rendering for audio on my video worked just fine.
(can’t do a screen capture of the pull down menu).
Alf
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Correction: I meant to say, “go to Windows 7 Professional, not Vista Pro”
Alf
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Ok. That’s clearer. I’ve always gone with the default and not changed the codec. so can’t help there. However, I’ve never felt a need to change the codec. The audio always has come out fine on the default.
Q. help me understand, for my own benefit, why do you want to change the audio codecs from the default? Is there a commercial/client issue?
As to Win7, as I understand it, there is no direct upgrade from XP to Win7. If you wanted to preserve your machine, you would have to pay to go to Vista first. Whether that’s worth the effort or not is debateable. If you have all your original restore disks, then maybe you could just jump to the 7 and reinstall. But an interim move to Vista would conciveably make that work smoother. Or buy a new machine, and move your software over as you can. That’s usually what I do. I *highly* recommend getting Vista Professional, because it will allow you to run virtualization software on it. You can’t run XP mode on lower versions. Also, on new machines, look for the chip’s ability, from AMD or Intel to support Virtualization natively. If you do choose to run a parallel OS, it will be much faster.
Caveats on an upgrade: Drivers. also you need to catalogue your commonly used software and see what needs to be upgraded. Some packages might not be supported by Win7 (ProTools just went beta for example, here four months afterlaunch). What I can say is that my new HP quad core has been able to run Sony’s software just fine for now. I’ve had blue screens with my video drivers, and had to back out a MS recommended upgrade to the latest video drivers for Viewsonic’s newer 24″ HDef monitor and go with the ‘generic’ drivers in the Vista package. And these were drivers that MS’ update program recommended! But that wasn’t Sony’s issue, or problem.
Anyway, hope this helps and hasn’t rat holed us on a sideline topic.
Alf
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Rob, I’m runing Pro 9.0c on Windows 7 64 bit. I’ve just recently installed VV, and I show four possible choices specifically for Windows. One is Windows Media Video v11. Not sure why you are choosinig Windows audio to render a video. The snips you see on my screen shot were rendered in Windows VIDEO not audio and sound just fine. Since I’m relatively new to VV not sure why I would choose one over the other. I’ve enclosed the best screen capture I could of the choices. Not sure why you have previous Windows media choices. Update to the software???
Alf
Panasonic HMC-150 & Vegas Video 9.0c on Win7/64bit