Butch Henderson
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I’ll see if I can figure out how to capture the Config Page. the initial setup was done using the Front Panel, Bruce from Engineering used the Computer interface to change from ProRes 422 to ProRes.
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Hi Jeremy,
Here in Seattle were shooting news with EX-3’s. These KiPro kits were bought for pool feed situations in Court cases.
The courts up here have been fairly accomodating in that they allow us to have 1 camera on sticks and the other 3 on the floor recording the 1st camera. We normally use SDI to “Daisy Chain” from one camera to the next but our issue is the EX-3’s don’t take external video in…
The other 3 stations are just beginning their HD transition so for now 2 stations have got Sony DNW-9’s and another is shooting with Pannasonic P2. At least all of us are in 16×9 now though.
Granted that 90% of the time we are going to be using SDI, but we want to have flexibility in the design of these kits so they will work in all situations.
Were editing with FCP and have timelines set up for XDCAM. initially we thought about recording in SD, but we had issues with the aspect ratio not coming into FCP correctly and long render times in the upconvert, so we thought we would use the KiPro to do the upconvert and then just drag and drop, but we can’t seem to get it to do 720 60p reliably. for some reason it will do 1080i though…
A year ago we bought 5 of the KiPro’s and now Sony is making the PDW HR-1/Mk1 with the SxS Card option installed, which is exactly what we were looking for. (Battery and AC Powered, Cards and disks for memory, Analog and digital inputs, a monitor and speaker, all in one package.)
If we can work out the issues I think we have a solution that is about $5K less than the Sony product, so we’d really like it to work.
Thanks
Butch Henderson
KCPQ-TV, Seattle
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Thanks for the suggestions, stil trying to come up with a Composite to Component adaptor to try.
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Did you try setting an in and out point just inside the limits of the clip?
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How long before the Thunderbolt Port becomes really useful. It’s faster than the express card slot isn’t it?
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Once upon a time I did shoot in an Aluminum Mill with 2 Sony Directional Lavalier mics (ECM55’s I believe) one facing the subject’s voice and the other facing away (Down on their own audio channels. In editing I used a mixer to reverse the phase of the background audio to cancel it out. The result was a bit lacking in bass and oddly enough I had to mix back in some background sound so that it looked normal. An Airplane is going to be tougher because the frequency of the engines is in the voice range whereas in the Mill it was much lower.
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We have been using the DM-Accessories swing out plate with the Sony VCT-14 plates from our old SX Cameras
https://shop.dm-accessories.com/products/ex3-shoulder
Butch Henderson
KCPQ-TV, Seattle