Don Greening
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There’s a good review of the PMW-200 on Alister’s web site. About a 3rd of the way down in the article he talks about the picture profile gamma curves, of which there are 6. Then Alister goes on to explain the uses and results of the various curves. Hopefully you’ll glean enough info from the article to customize a profile to suit your skiing subject matter.
There is a picture profile button on your 200 so make sure you’re using that to view the various profiles instead of trying to find something in the camera’s main menu.There are probably a few spots available in the picture profile menu where your can create your own custom set by modifying and then saving an existing one.https://www.xdcam-user.com/reviews/cameras/review-of-the-sony-pmw-200/
– Don
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Hi Chuck,
Yup, that’s where it is alright. Thanks for the reply and the heads up about the pref folder’s location. Never thought it would be accessed from any of the Finder menus. Cheers.
To David: thanks also for your reply. I do indeed have Preference Manager from Digital Rebellion but this time I didn’t need to trash any editing application prefs. I didn’t know about its ability to trash other NLE preferences other than Final Cut Studio. Thanks much for the heads up on that.
– Don
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Here’s a quote from Alister’s article about gamma settings for the XDCAM EX cameras:
“Cinegamma 1 is tailored for shooting bright scenes or scenes where there will be large areas of highlights. CG1 is tailored for maximum highlight handling with lower shadow dynamic range compared to CG3 and CG4.”
Use this setting. It can be accessed when you press the picture profile button on your camera.
– Don
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[jason eng] “I tested with Apple Compressor 3.5, but the audio controls in the ProRes export setting (Pass-through/Enabled/Disabled) don’t do what I want.”
I’ve always had good results with Compressor keeping the original channels separate during a transcode. I’m using Compressor 4 but I never had any issues with version 3x either, so I don’t know what is happening at your end. I just tanscoded a ton of XDCAM EX footage to ProRes 422 and the lav channel is not mixed with the on-camera mic at all.
– Don
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[Oliver de Morassé] “Should we be using HD422 or is HD420 adequate?”
If you’re shooting fast action then use the less compressed 50 Mbits 422 setting. You’ll have fewer compression artifacts.
[Oliver de Morassé] “- What about 50i or 25P?”
It depends on the look you’re trying to achieve. If you want the illusion of speed while panning with the skier and blurring the background then go 25p. If you want smoother all around motion use 50i because it has more temporal resolution per sec.
[Oliver de Morassé] “- Any other tips on how best to setup the camera would be cool.”
Protect your highlights when shooting with a snowy background and choose a picture profile setting to compliment your subject matter. Try choosing something from Alister Chapman’s recommendations here:
https://www.xdcam-user.com/2009/06/xdcam-ex-cinegammas/
Cheers,
Don
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Have you tried re-rendering just those two sections and checking if that solves it? Sometimes render files become corrupted, especially if a section gets rendered multiple times
– Don
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Use the standard twitter filter in FCP and set it to max. That should make make somewhat of a difference. You can also combine that with the Gaussian blur filter but set it to just a tiny amount to finish the job.
– Don
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I’m running FCP 7.0.3 with OS 10.8.3 on the most recent 12 core Mac Pro and have had zero issues (so far).
– Don
Don Greening
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Trash FCP 7’s preference files and see if that solves your audio sync issues. When the program starts acting strangely trashing preferences is the first thing to try. If you don’t know which files to trash or where they’re located there’s a free program available that will do it for you at digitalrebellion.com. It’s called Preference Manager.
– Don
Don Greening
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The problem isn’t with your Avid, but with that SD card. Use the EX3 to re-format the card and try using it again. Just test it first though with a bit of unimportant media then go through your work routine again. If the directory structure is good then your Avid should read it no problem. If not then there’s something wrong with that card or the way it connects to that particular SD adapter. Make sure everything is seated properly. If you still have trouble then throw the card away and get another one.
You didn’t lose anything important this time but for trouble free recording I always recommend the Sony SxS Pro or the lesser priced SxS-1 cards. You don’t need a catastrophic media failure because you skimped on cheap cards.
Don Greening
A Vancouver Video Production Company
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