Clint Fleckenstein
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Just out of curiosity, did you buy the camera or was the footage given to you from the camera’s owner? It would seem weird to spend $6000 on a camera but want to go the cheap route on software. One byproduct of the era of cheap audio-visual production equipment is the fact that many want it for nothing. I remember back when one needed an extremely expensive studio to produce video, maybe that’s why I’m more willing to simply accept that there’s a “cost of admission” to do things correctly in this business.
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I just tried importing using the XDCAM transfer plug-in to FCP and got the same result as you did. Even by flagging a bin as the Logging Bin, opening it, and right-clicking to import Sony XDCAM. Imported files just went to the main project window. Weird.
I don’t normally import footage this way so I hadn’t noticed that.
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Are you talking analog SD? I think that only comes out the “tiny connector” by the handgrip 🙂 If I remember correctly, and lately I’m not doing so well, it’s SDI only out of the BNC connector on the side, whether standard or high definition. One more reason why I like using our EX3 more than our EX1.
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I’ve seen that kind of artifact before on my Canon DSLR (also a CMOS sensor) when I wasn’t synced to the external strobes properly – ie, too fast of a shutter speed. So while an artifact of the sensor, I suppose a slower shutter speed would compensate for it. I wish I knew what I was talking about.
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That looks like a rolling shutter issue to me. I know there have been a lot of artifacts blamed on this, some correctly and some incorrectly, but this looks like a clear-cut case.
If I’m correct it’s not a camera setting. It’s inherent to a CMOS imager instead of a CCD. CCDs have their own issues, of course.
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Dude. I’ve been there. Glad you got it sorted out.
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Hey, I got one for ya – BUGS. I got swarmed by tiny little biting gnats during a time lapse yesterday. I hosed down with bug spray from my kit but a couple of the little buggers got onto my lenses later in the day. The XDCAM stuff is manageable, only a couple of spots in the clip, but the footage from timed exposures on my DSLR is going to be a major challenge. These bugs are really tiny, so I didn’t notice them despite eyeballing my gear from time to time. The darkness of the polarizer filters I had on made it impossible to see them.
Trucks driving by caused a lot of dust, but I just kept blowing sideways across the front of the filter and that kept it as clean as possible given the situation. I’ve only eyeballed the footage so far and it looks solid. An example of the DSLR bug(s) can be seen here.
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Those vibrations have nothing on the TSA. It would be interesting, however, to find something extremely fragile and put it in one of those cases and drag it around for a little bit to see how it fares. Our Storm cases seem decent enough, but those small wheels probably take a good hit from things like sidewalk cracks.
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What do you think a polarizer does? Of course it’s going to cause a color shift. That’s why we photographers love it for outdoor stuff, since it blocks scattered light and makes for better color (deep blue skies, for example). I spent all day yesterday outside doing time lapses with a DSLR and EX3, and I put a polarizer on each one to clean up the shot and filter out all the bouncing blue-green light.
What do you think a rolling shutter does, by the way? Blaming the color shift on “rolling shutter” seems like blaming it for leaving the lens cap on.
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Don’t forget to set your focus manually. As light changes, it may tend to “hunt” and ruin the entire thing. I had that happen once. Boy, was I mad. Those silly little oversights can be real buzzkill.
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