[Bill Ravens]

I really like it. The images are incredible. Despite the complaints about its “plastic” feel, I find it every bit as solid as my EX1 and considerably lighter. The EX1 has some deep menus that are cumbersome to access. This camera has all controls connected to easily accessible buttons. And of course, I like the interchangeable lenses. My only complaint is somewhat nit-picky. The 1080P60 format is new and not widely accepted by 3rd party apps. This should change, in time, tho’.

[Bill Ravens]

here you go…

[Bill Ravens]

The back plane of the Hyperdeck is a sheet metal(aluminum) place held in place by four screws located under the rubber mat. Removal of these 4 screws is quite simple. I replaced the sheet metal plate with a 1/4 inch Al plate tapped with two 1/4×20 holes to mount a 15mm rail block. I can now mount the Hyperdeck perpendicular and on its side with the controls facing up. This works like a champ, and is convenient.

[Bill Ravens]

It seems the Hyperdeck works only with the conventional HDMI formats of 720p, 720i, and 1080i. It does not work with 1080p on the FS100. I beleive this is happening because, unlike earlier models, the FS100 outputs in a native 1080p60 format, that is recorded internally, in all 1080p modes as 1080psf(progressive segmented) . Decoding of true 1080p60 is not routinely handled by any of the current recorders. The only application I’ve found that can even recognize the native 1080P60 format is Adobe CS5.5.

I just hope that 3rd party vendors, like Convergent Design, BMD, Sound Devices and ATOMOS can get it together enough to offer firmware updates to 1080P60 in the near future, however, I expect that the processors in these 3rd party recorders can’t handle the data rate of 1080p60.

[Bill Ravens]

I’m, currently, exploring the possibilities with BMD’s Hyperdeck. MC has no problems recognizing the 10-bit uncompressed QT from this source. I’m using After Effects to transcode the Hyperdeck QT files to Avid’s DNxHD before injesting to MC.

[Bill Ravens]

I have an Elitebook 8740w. Sadly, it won’t work with the Ultrascope, so, I doubt it will work with the Ultrastudio.

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The USB3 PCI card was one recommended by BMD(Asus U3S6), however, it was very hard to find, since it is no longer manufactured.

[Bill Ravens]

I have this setup on my workstation. It works…sorta. The display will freeze occasionally. Hitting Ctrl-Alt-Del will restore operation. Kind of a PITA, but, it works.

[Bill Ravens]

Thanks for the update, Joshua.

I hope you can find a solution quickly.

[Bill Ravens]

Thanx for replying Dave. I’m bringing the footage into a 16-bit project from AVCHD formated files acquired from a Sony FS100, altho’ the same happens with footage from an EX1. The files were transcoded to DNx175x (This is Avid’s 10-bit 175Nbps codec) prior to importing to AEFX.

I’m running Win7SP1 64 bit Pro on an HP 8740w laptop with external storage and a quadro fx3800 video card.I can playback to footage on WMP, Media Player Classic, or even import it into AEFX as an 8-bit composition without experiencing the problem. It seems to happen only when I try to bring the footage into a 16 bit comp.I intend to send the output to DNx175x for import into Media Composer 5.5.

I attempted to correct the exposure values with several of AFX’s plugins, including the levels control, synthetic aperture, or even Colorista II.

edit: I’ve imported the native AVCHD files into a 16 bit AEFX comp and have not expereinced the artifacts. So, it seems the problem is related to the trancoding step.