Clint Fleckenstein
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Right, I’m aware of what causes it. Thus my “when technologies collide” comment 🙂 I wonder what the average viewer thinks, if they even notice.
Cf
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I’m just getting off the ground with this as well, although I mostly got CatDV to manage our offline archives and not so much for prepping to ingest footage. We use a machine that doesn’t have Final Cut Studio on it (Express only) so we bought the Calibrated Software codec to allow CatDV to see the MP4 files properly. Other than that, I’m just starting on the nuts & bolts part of things. We should have been up and running but then I had an animated short fall in my lap and have spent the last month or so on that.
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My guess is that this is due to the length of the path for those files. There’s a maximum length for a file path, and once you get nested 11 or 12 deep I’m guessing you’ve simply run out of characters. If you’re burning a CD-ROM with a decent burning application, it will actually tell you when this happens. You didn’t mention which app you’re using to archive to XDCAM disc, but my guess is it doesn’t know to tell you this specific error.
It looks to me like the XDCAM media uses a PC-type file system, so if you’re burning from a Mac you may be complicating things even further.
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We have an iMac dedicated to ours. It keeps the online footage on a pair of RAIDs and the PDW-U1 for archiving.
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I’ve had the FSB-6 with single lever release and carbon legs for a year or two now, and I love it. I’ve used it repeatedly in temperatures approaching -20F, the only situation I can think of where carbon might have a durability problem, and never had an issue. It does come with a padded bag for protection in transit.
I’ve had the same great performance in subzero temperatures with my Manfrotto/Bogen still camera tripod. I also ride a carbon mountain bike and have replaced lots of parts on my motorcycles with carbon fiber bits – also without incident 🙂 I’m not riding them in the subzeros, but I’ve had some stuff get bonked, a couple of times at over 150 mph.
The FSB-6 head is by far the smoothest, nicest feeling head I’ve tried in this price range. Period. In fact, I have been planning to order a second one for a while now. Before I bought it I read every review I could hunt down, no matter how obscure. I was very pleased with the result when I received mine, and would hands-down recommend it to anyone looking for a tripod in the $1500 range.
One thing about carbon is that it’s very solid. It also doesn’t transfer heat/cold as well as metal, which can make it easier to grab and/or carry during temperature extremes. As far as aluminum bending…well, I’ve bent lots of aluminum, sometimes on purpose. It only likes to bend ONCE. That second time, especially if you’re trying to straighten it, is a gamble.
Cf
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I have an FSB-6 head on a carbon tripod that looks identical to aluminum one you referred to. First off, the fluid head is FANTASTIC. It’s amazingly smooth. The one-flip Speed Lock mechanism on the legs is really handy for run & gun shooting, too.
I don’t know the difference between the FSB-4 and FSB-6, but there’s likely a big difference. The FSB-6 head costs more than that tripod system you were looking at. B&H has the FSB-6 with aluminum tripod and carrying bag (which is nice, by the way, padded and heavy duty) for $1429.
There’s an old adage in the gun community about spending a lot on a scope to get the most out of your rifle…some even say you should spend as much on your optics as you did on the rifle itself. I’d agree that a similar reasoning applies to a tripod, especially now that we’re all shooting widescreen HD. If you can stretch a bit and move up to a nicer head on a set of sticks rated for 12 pounds or more, I think you’d be doing yourself a favor. That tripod system you mentioned runs what, about 10% of the cost of the camera?
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“But I cringe at the low temporal resolution. I know it’s just me (and a few other folks) but it really bothers me (my eyes). Maybe I was born with crappy persistence of vision. ”
I’m with ya, pal. I’m sure that if old film cameras cranked at 30 frames per second, 30p would be the really “cool” way to shoot now…and people would laugh at 24p.
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Yeah, they goofed up somewhere…I didn’t read anything in the announcement about $1000 media…
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I did one even better, when sculpting the pluck foam inside of our Storm cases, I left some tacky surfaces after spray-gluing the layers together. Naturally some of that adhesive over time found its way onto a couple of battery packs, one of which got lodged in the camera. I got it out, but it has successfully gummed up the battery release works too. Thankfully I was able to get it cleaned up.
The return spring inside this battery release mechanism does seem a little weak. Once I got everything all cleaned up and wiped clean, it freed up okay and has worked to this day.
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That happened to me last week, turned out it was a drive space issue. Could also be fragmentation. In my case it got REALLY slow.
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