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I have about 12 hours on the GY-HM100U I purchased, so my experience thus far is limited. Like you, I’m switching from larger cameras, eg., Beta and DVCAM.
Technically, the GY-HM100U produces a good image in basic well-lit situations. Do not purchase this camera if you need it for low-light situations, although CNN recently purchased 100+ for reporters who may have to cover news (some in low-light, but they probably don’t mind the inherent noise in +9 and +18 db when the story is really newsworthy.)
I purchased the camera based on its workflow attributes with FCP and its price range. I like the camera but am having to re-address certain issues, such as lack of a 3-ring lens (focus, iris, focal length). The ability to go directly to FCP is great. It’s the smallest pro camera out there, so its fantastic for tight situations. You can put this camera an inch in front of something and it focuses.
Do NOT purchase this camera for advanced shooters who do tough jobs such as camera motion combined with close-focus product work or who need to shoot quality HD in low light situations. Otherwise I think you’ll enjoy it.
Dennis Dean
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This is great -I will. When you restore – does it find everything automatically ? Or do I need to re-distribute files on my own?
Dennis Dean
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I’m working the re-edit of a project right now that languished as version 1 for three years and only came back to life when I dumped the files.
BUT I think I’m talking about project files and the original materials used to create – not the rendered files that are spread across FCP Docs.
DD
PS – PRIVATE TO SHANE – IS YOUR “GETTING ORGANIZED IN FCP” available only as a download now?
dd
Dennis Dean
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Thanks, Shane. Does this mean I can trash all of the stuff in the Final Cut Pro documents folder related to old projects I’m no longer working on ? to free up space?
Dennis Dean
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THANKS – I’ll trash the prefs NOW – !
Have a good year’s end –
DD
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Also – what about Apple Intermediate Codec as an editing format?
As the project is just starting, it’s easy to switch to ProRes 422, which I will do.
A second question – and I”m not sure it’s related to this one .
I began this project with all 166 converted (to HD) clips in the project, and the project crashed. The project document is gone. I’d done no editing on the timeline, but was opening the clips in the bin and making notes
Dennis
Dennis Dean
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As the project is just starting, it’s easy to switch to ProRes 422, which I will do.
A second question – and I”m not sure it’s related to this one .
I began this project with all 166 converted (to HD) clips in the project, and the project crashed. The project document is GONE. I’d done no editing on the timeline, but was opening the clips in the bin and making notes about the shots in the Log Notes column. THAT’S when I began wondering if I had converted to the wrong format. What surprises me is – where did the project file go? There is no evidence it every existed – anywhere.
Any thoughts?
Dennis
Dennis Dean
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Shane – thanks very much. A new Mac and FCP 7 is in the budget so that should not be an issue.
Thanks very much for your help with this – and all the other posts of yours I’ve researched and that have been helpful.
Dennis
Dennis Dean
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Shane – on 2/10 you wrote
“There is no native MXF editing in FCP…not with FCP alone. You need third party software to deal with that, like MXF4MAC, Calibrated or Raylight. But if you get the Sony XDCAM Log and Transfer plugin, you can then import the files as .mov quicktimes. FCP is designed to work with QT files. Why not import that way? Why the insistence on editing native MXF? There is no quality loss.”
This is good news – as I am considering a camera ( Canon XF 105) about to be released that outputs MPEG-2, 4:2:2 video in an MXF file format on CF Cards and shoots 60p/60i, 30p and 24p at up to 50Mbps and uses the Canon XF Codec.
Two questions – Do you know whether the Sony plug-in you mentioned above would work with this video, enabling me to import the files as Quicktime? Or is there a better way that I should be looking at before purchase?
Thanks – always enjoy your posts!
PS _ I’m currently running FCP 6.06 on a Dual 2 GHz Power PC G5 with 4 GB of RAM.
Dennis Dean
The Dean Group
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http://www.deangroup.com