Clint Fleckenstein
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Makes perfect sense. I’m hope I didn’t sound like one of those raving “RTFM!” types. 🙂
Have a good weekend,
Clint
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The manual is available here:
https://pro.sony.com/bbsccms/assets/files/micro/nxcam/manuals/FINAL_HXR-NX5U_Ops_Manual.pdf
Page 24 describes the function you desire. Looks like the default is for both buttons to have the same function: record on memory card and optional flash memory unit when the button is pressed. Options split these functions between buttons, and if you don’t have a flash memory unit attached I’m guessing it will display the error message you describe.
At risk for sounding rude, I must ask: do you have the manual for your camera? If not, you might want to download and/or print that PDF. Could come in handy. Took me less than a minute to find the answer to your issue.
Cf
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When I’ve run into noise issues in the past with XDCAM EX footage and Keylight, I’ve used the following:
– Key the footage in Keylight. Don’t soften the edges.
– Use the keyed footage as a track matte for the original footage.
– Fine tune the edges using AE’s matte tools.
I know it’s not as convenient as doing it all in Keylight, but it’s worked for me on multiple occasions. I hope it works for you.
Cf
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One of the reasons I chose the XDCAM EX format in the first place was the ability to use a PDW-U1 (I have a U2 at this job) to archive footage to XDCAM discs, which are plenty robust. I’d use Clip Browser to combine the footage, then use its automatic folder split feature to make folders small enough to fit onto 23GB discs. The nice thing is that it would reorder the clips as needed to maximize the available space on the medium. This works for DVD too, or even arbitrary sizes that you specify.
I’m just getting up to speed with the U2, 50GB discs, Content Browser, and finally shooting some projects large enough to fill 50GB discs that are worth archiving. Just exactly what meets that last criteria is going to vary from user to user, of course. I hope this feature is as easy in Content Browser as it was in Clip Browser.
Cf
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I’m in the USA, so I’m subject to whatever the braintrust at the Federal Communications Commission comes up with. The Shure mics I got for our church were the lower-budget BLX series, since I didn’t have money for the ULX that I wanted.
Cf
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FYI, and I’m sure many of you have been aware of this, but the 600 MHz band is probably going to go away. So if you buy new microphones, keep that in mind. I just bought a couple of Shure systems for our church and swerved away from the 600 MHz band after a friend of mine, an AV installer, told me that one of the factory reps had just come through town and was livid about this issue.
Here’s an article about it from the beginning of 2014. I haven’t followed the issue closely since I discovered it, as I simply decided to avoid the band altogether. Once government bureaucrats get an idea in their head they don’t let it go, so I don’t care if it’s a “sure thing” or not at this point. By now it may even be a done deal.At my last job we had Sony analog systems, I believe they were UWP-V1s, and it seemed like ours had more noise than what we’d previously used. I loved the mics, though. At my new job I inherited an Audio-Technica system that sounds hideous and is square in the 600 MHz range, so I’m hoping to do like Don mentioned: go with the UWP-D16. If it’s like the UWP-V1, it’ll attach to the top of the camera nicely too, which is a bonus.
Cf
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Amen!
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I’m no expert, but I’ve shot a bunch of chroma-key shots with these cameras in the past. I got best results shooting progressive, making sure the background is well lit with good distance between subject and backdrop to avoid spill, and stay at f/4 to avoid diffraction. Use ND if you have to. Should give you nice edges. These cameras have been fantastic for CK, especially after DVCAM.
Cf
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You can solve this in the project bin. Select all your newly-imported XDCAM footage, right-click and select “Modify” and then “Audio Channels…”
This will allow you to set the number of channels you want; in fact, you can even limit it to one if you want, or change channels to be perceived as stereo instead of mono (default).
Cf
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I inferred from your post that you rolled long clips on the-all day event, and that was probably a good, safe bet. It’s important to note that you may be more likely to experience problems with one of those adapters if you do a lot of starting and stopping.
It’s critical that you let the card finish writing before starting a new recording, and because of the reduced speed (presumably since the adapters are an internal USB interface) they don’t finish writing nearly as quickly as the real thing.
This is presuming that you have good, fast cards that don’t slowly fill up a buffer somewhere over several hours of constant recording. That’d get ugly.
This, if I remember correctly, is why overcranking is not recommended with an adapter. I changed jobs and was out of the XDCAM EX community for a while, but I was finally able to rectify that with a trio of PMW200’s. 🙂
Cf