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Colin Andronis
June 25, 2015 at 12:43 am in reply to: just bought a 5d mark III – was that a mistake ?

Thanks Jonathan, appreciate the advice 🙂

I don’t want to shoot SLOG2, are there any setting in PP that your can recommend.
Realise this won’t be as good as SLOG2, but would be a step in the right direction.
Colin Andronis
June 23, 2015 at 12:55 am in reply to: just bought a 5d mark III – was that a mistake ?

Love my a7s’, have 2 of them.
Looking at my older projects, I agree that my old 5D3 looked more “cinematic”.
Can anyone help with some setting in camera or post.
Or is it just a case that a7s is stuck with that video look?
Colin Andronis
July 10, 2013 at 9:41 am in reply to: strange frame related issue SV10 vs. SV. 11 with mxf mpeg2 input

Hi Paul,

I know it’s been a while since your post, but I am experiencing the same problem 🙁
Did you resolve it?
If yes could you please let me know what the problem was.

Cheers
Colin
Colin Andronis
May 31, 2009 at 11:44 am in reply to: SD output EX-1 footage should be better

Good luck,

Have had a lot of camera’s, my last one prior to the EX1 was the Z7.
Had I have known, that software can’t do a decent job of downconverting, I would have never bought the EX1.
I am a Sony Vegas user.
Was hoping Vegas 9 would do a better job of it that V8.
Using a Sony camera/codec & Sony software, one would think it would be easy.
All my results wether I shot HDV or HD are lousy!!!
Allow me to explain. Whilst the HD footage looks brilliant downconverted to SD it looks soft and wide shots even look out of focus. Plus I have that horizontal line flicker problem in SD.
Have spoken to Sony, who told me that to get a good result one must use hardware.
If Clip Browser would do a decent job of exporting to AVI, life would be so much simpler. Was hoping 2.5 would fix this.
Most of my productions the client only wants DVD.
I was under the dissaloution that starting in HD would result in brilliant SD dvd’s.
Well in think a $1000 consumer camera shouting in SD would produce comparible if not better dvd’s.
Have been surfing the net for months, made so many calls,even tried other NLE’s.
From tests I have done I think anything using the “Main concept” codec can’t do a decent job.
I would love someone to prove me wrong.
As I find myself contemplating selling the EX1 and going back to the Z7, something I don’t really want to do.
To clarify I always shot 1920 or 1440 in 50i, am a PAL user.
Please let me know if you have any luck getting a great result downconverting.

Cheers
Colin Andronis
Colin Andronis
May 20, 2009 at 11:20 pm in reply to: Why buy a PDW-F335?

Having recently gone from a 2/3 inch shoulder camera with a wide angle lens to EX-1, I must say I will never go back.
20 years of heavy cameras have not been kind to my back.
I especially like the effiency of the smaller batteries, and how easier they are to charge & transport.
Being able to take EX-1 as carry on luggage is a huge plus.
All advantage aside, if I could have taken my old camera to a fat farm, filled it full of helium & used light batteries I would definetly have kept it.

Cheers
Colin