[Bill Skinner]

Brian,

Are you running the Demo version of CS5?

Bill Skinner
Sony “ICE Team”
On assignment – Afghanistan

[Bill Skinner]

I have been using the Sony PXU-MS240 drive system to off-load from the SxS cards without a laptop. In the last 3 months here in Afghanistan it has worked without failure transferring over 4TB of footage.

Bill Skinner
On assignment – Afghanistan

[Bill Skinner]

Ian,

Strangely enough I have had this happen several times in the last 3 weeks with multiple cards and camera combination’s. I am working with (4) cameras and (32) 32GB cards. Best I can discover is that it may be the result of using “all clip delete” repeatedly. Just guessing there, as a simple in camera “reformat” cleared up the problem each time.

Bill Skinner
Sony “ICE Team”
On assignment – Afghanistan

[Bill Skinner]

Tim,

I am by no means an expert here but I was wondering if you are using the Mercury playback in software or hardware mode?

Bill

[Bill Skinner]

John,

I am currently using CS5 Master Collection on a Sager Laptop with a eSATA connected G-Safe. I am working with the EX-1R and I just love CS5 and my laptop. It is a killer $5600.00 laptop that gives me 6 or more streams of EX footage with realtime preview and effects. Drop me a note if you want more information.

Bill

[Bill Skinner]

All I can say is that I have held the camera and have seen shots taken with it to include some cromakey work and It looked great to me. Footage was viewed on a Evaluation Grade HD CRT.

[Bill Skinner]

Not the best written article but it may give you some of the information you seek.

https://digitalcontentproducer.com/workflow/xdcam_high_seas_11282006/

[Bill Skinner]

Mike,
Please let us know what you find in your head to head test. I to have heard some rumors on the 2/3″ camera. But at this point that is all it is. Only time will tell.

Bill

[Bill Skinner]

Michael
I have read many of your post and have learned much from them, as I am sure others do. So when I saw that you made a mistake in the one above I knew I must correct you. The Sony HD XDCAM has “True Progressive Chips”
Not only that, but it can be set to record true progressive picture just as the f900 does.Granted as the information is put to disk it is done so in the Psf format just as it is in the f900.

The only time the camera records at a reduced resolution is during overcranking….

Thanks again for all your good posts.

[Bill Skinner]

Well, funny thing. I just downloaded it from the Sony Site……

https://bssc.sel.sony.com/BroadcastandBusiness/markets/10014/docs/PDW-F330-350OpManualE1R1_3990971111.pdf

Only took about 2 minutes to find it.