[Chris Wilson]

Thanks for the advice. I’ve scoured the internet as well as these forums and have tried every solution I could find short of rebuilding my computer – which isn’t an option at the moment. I’ve removed all the expired trial plugins I could locate. When this same message first appeared while I was using Adobe After Effects I had time to reload the entire suite. I now have some of the functionality back and can at least click to dismiss the messages.

I’ll try setting up a new user and see if I can log in and launch Motion. That’s one I haven’t tried yet.

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[Chris Wilson]

Same ProRes issue here. I’m running CS6 on a Mac laptop (Mt. Lion) with no problems. The same version of Creative Suite on my beefier Mac Pro running Snow Leopard doesn’t recognize ProRes or output the format from AE, Media Encoder or Premiere. If it’s relevant, I have an AJA Kona LHe card running, I believe, the latest control panel. Both the laptop and tower Macs also run Final Cut 7.

I’ve read the above thread, poked around on the Adobe site, downloaded and installed ProRes drivers from Adobe…I’m stumped. I have a lot of ProRes 422(HQ) material I need to work with – yesterday. Any additional suggestions would be appreciated?

Thanks.

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[Chris Wilson]

I was shooting ISO 640 which is a very noise-free multiple of the chip’s native ISO.

The Problem seems to have been solved by trading in my second 5d for a third that had a very different serial #. This one is beautiful.

Looks like Canon let a few bad ones pass QC.

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[Chris Wilson]

I picked up my third camera a couple of days ago. The picture quality is far superior to the first two. I made sure I got one that had a very different serial number hoping to avoid another camera that may have come from the factory at the same time. Looks like Canon may have shipped a faulty batch.

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[Chris Wilson]

So you’re tellinge the camera is worthless for shooting the real world? I have a hard time believing this. Out of focus, underexposed, it should make no difference. There shouldn’t be vertical lines of varying brightness and noise levels in the frame. I can think of a hundred scenarios in which I would have something unfocused foreground or background and some elements obscure and underexposed. This still just happened to be taken when the camera was rolling while someone was playing with it in a dimly lit edit suite. Real world.

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[Chris Wilson]

Sorry, here’s the sample image.

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[Chris Wilson]

Multiples of ISO 320 are the least noisy speeds for the Mark 3’s sensor. This example was probably shot at 640 which is actually quieter than 200. I’ve tried every setting I can find to experiment with to eliminate the problem. It’s incredible that I’ve gotten 2 5ds with the same issue.

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[Chris Wilson]

Here’s a still that shows the streaking seen in my first camera. The replacement 5D produces an identical picture with the addition of the bad pixel. Streaking is more obvious on moving video, but can be seen here in the wall, frame left, and a bit in the dark countertop. A flat picture profile or monitor without very dark blacks makes the problem quite obvious. It’s not a recording or codec issue. I can see it direct HDMI out of camera to a 9″ field monitor.

Thanks for any insights.

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[Chris Wilson]

Here’s a still that shows the streaking seen in my first camera. The replacement 5D produces an identical picture with the addition of the bad pixel. Streaking is more obvious on moving video, but can be seen here in the wall, frame left, and a bit in the dark countertop. A flat picture profile or monitor without very dark blacks makes the problem quite obvious. It’s not a recording or codec issue. I can see it direct HDMI out of camera to a 9″ field monitor.

Thanks for any insights.

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[Chris Wilson]

Thanks much for the advice. I’ll check out clipwrap. I did find that Adobe Media Encoder does a beautiful job of quickly transcoding the m2ts file directly into a 720P 24 DVCPro HD file, but doesn’t recognize the audio. I assume that information is in one of the three files associated with each m2ts in the folder.

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