Clint Fleckenstein
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You really do NOT want to go rooting around in that BPAV folder.
I don’t work with XDCAM gear anymore, since I changed jobs a few weeks ago (that why my posting has been light! 🙂 Hopefully I can get this new place migrated over) When I did we burned to XDCAM disc for archiving. Here’s how I handled a situation like yours, and it may or may not work for you:
– Combine all footage from large shoots into one BPAV folder
– Use the “Split/Combine Folders” function in Clip Browser to split the footage into 20GB folders by selecting “Arbitrary Size” and entering 20GB. 23 GB discs allow 20GB of UserData.
– Burn the resulting folders to XDCAM Disc.The reason we used 23GB discs instead of 50s is that the price of the 50s was well more than twice the cost of 23s. The size of the 23GB discs tended to fit our projects better anyway.
One caveat about this method is that “Split Folders” does NOT keep your clips in order. It does the best job it can to calculate the combinations of clips that will best fill out a folder of the target size you give it.
In our case, this was just fine for making a backup archive of our footage. We did not use the BPAV folders to organize our clips; rather, we did that once footage was rewrapped to Quicktime and transferred to an edit system. Many might have a problem with this, again it’s a matter of what works well for your workflow and your facility. In our case it worked well.
I hope this is helpful.
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I’ve had the same experience in certain situations where the camera balances too cool. I figured it may be another manifestation of that “near-infrared” situation. If the camera sees more red because of its increased red sensitivity, it may balance further in the opposite direction and give a cool picture.
I too just set it manually.
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Sub-zero here again today…I don’t just want to warm up subjects, I also want to warm up the operator! 🙂
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I’d like to point out that none of our Sony SxS cards have had such errors. In my case, that is worth the price. 🙂
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I’m gonna agree with Ron here. Presuming that you operate the camera correctly to bring back the best footage you can, so you don’t have to push it so far, you’ll be fine.
I came to XDCAM EX from shooting DV…I thought I’d died and gone to heaven, especially when I did my first chroma key gig.
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It is significant when it comes to color correction. You have less color information to work with, so you have less latitude in manipulating your image. Things can turn pretty blotchy pretty quickly if pushed too far and the results are less predictable. Encoding artifacts that aren’t visible in the raw can become quite obvious. That sort of thing.
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“I’ll be shooting about 2.5 hours of footage on 4 cameras so I’m trying to budget space”
One thing you’ve probably read on this forum is to keep your BPAV folders intact as your camera masters. It’s very important that you archive these files as you would a master tape.
Rewrapping to MOV for Final Cut Pro only gives you files that work in FCP. If you have to hand footage off to a different editing system, and all you have is the MOVs you wrapped for Quicktime and not your original BPAV folders, you are in the proverbial “hurtlocker.”
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One thing: make sure you know what kind of camera it has first, and right now the specs on Apple’s site are not very specific, and I think that’s intentional.
I have an iPod Touch (4th gen) and am extremely disappointed. As it turns out, it does not have the 5 megapixel camera with autofocus that the iPhone 4 has. It has a cheesy little fixed-focus camera that shoots 960×720.
The reason I read for the iPod’s camera was that the iPod is too thin to house the iPhone camera. The iPad 2 just came out, and wow is it thin. My guess is that it has the iPod camera, not the iPhone one. If so, iMovie isn’t going to be so iMpressive on it.
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Yes. SxS cards have an internal PCI-Express architecture (or is it PCI-E? I forget) and the SD card readers have an internal USB architecture. Big difference.
For instance, I tried an MxR adapter with SD card in my Sony SBAC-US10 SxS reader yesterday trying to find a useful answer for you, and the Sony reader won’t read the USB-based SD adapter. I had to grab an actual SxS card to verify the Disk Utility idea I posted.
There’s the likely factor in your issue.
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Try running the Disk Utility (Applications>Utilities>Disk Utility) and see if it shows up there. If it is detecting the card you will see an instance of your card reader and the card listed under it as a volume. If it shows up there, your hardware at least sees that it’s there. Try to mount it manually through Disk Utility if it appears.
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