Don Greening
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[Mark Huckle] ” What will happen if I ditch my render files from the HD timeline? Will this affect the copy I made of it to a new SD sequence?”
It shouldn’t. There will be separate render files for the SD sequence. Besides, even if it did affect the SD sequence, the render file information is part of the project file and to create new render files you just hit Cmd – R for “render all” and you’ll be back in business.
– Don
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[olof ekbergh] “I would like to hear if anyone is willing to share some setting the work out.”
In the meantime while you’re waiting you can do a search of this forum. There are some picture profile settings from some gracious folks already posted here. There’s also this:
https://www.sony.ca/xdcamex/tips.htm
– Don
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[David Jones] “But I don’t get why they would make it do 25p and 30p, and not 24p.”
I was also thinking: “how hard could it be to add a 24p mode to all the rest of the modes?”. It’s probably a marketing decision, so they can sell you the new and improved CineAlta variant sometime down the road.
– Don
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[Sam Roberts] “And I worry that the PDW 700’s imaging technology is already outdated as I’m sure Sony, Panasonic and others are going to start making mid price 30-50K ultra high def cams to go up against the RED. So I’m torn.”
Well, you know, you’re probably right on the money, Sam. But you can look at it two ways. There’s your way, which is the same as most people, business owners and consumers alike: “It wasn’t long after I bought my new TV they came out with a better one and it was less expensive. Damn.”
Or: you figure out what the best tool for the job is now, go out and buy it now because you know you can get enough work with it to pay it off and turn a profit at the same time. If you just agreed with the last sentence then you’ve just made your decision.
The RED ONE takes awesome pictures but you’ll need a small army of assistants to follow you around like the keystone cops. The PDW 700 is a no brainer to shoot and edit with like you stated, and was designed from the ground up to be a one man band.
– Don
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Hi David,
There is no mention of a PDW 700 24p mode in the camera’s spec. There is mention of:
1080 HD422 mode: 60i and 50i
1080 HD422 mode: 30p and 25p
720 HD422 mode: 60p and 50pHD420 mode: (reduced colour space) 1080 and 720 modes but it doesn’t stipulate if all the above interlaced and progressive modes are still available with this setting. I’m assuming they are.
This stands to reason, as there is no CineAlta logo on the camera, which is synonymous with being able to shoot 24p.
https://pro.sony.com/bbsc/ssr/product-PDW700/
The 700 does not have a CMOS chip set but are in fact CCD’s. This also stands reason why the picture has allegedly very low noise, since CMOS technology still hasn’t caught up to the low noise CCD’s.
There is also no mention in the 700’s specs about under/overcranking, which is very desirable in the artistic side of the business. But this part I’m not at all sure of.
– Don
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[Sam Roberts] “MY question is, what is the importance of 24P and how and why is it used”
24p matches the frame rate of film cameras. Most feature length movies shot digital will use this frame rate to more closely emulate the look of film, although that’s only a small part of what’s required to achieve what’s commonly called the “film look.”
[Sam Roberts] “Should I wait for the 750? “
The PDW 700 was designed primarily as an ENG camera, and news people and event types don’t care much about 24p as they are shooting primarily for TV, which is 30 fps in NTSC land or 25 fps in PAL land. Should you wait for the 750? It depends entirely on what you want to use the camera for. Choose what part of the industry you want to specialize in and then go buy a camera that fits the bill.
I thought you were leaning more towards the RED ONE anyway, weren’t you?
If you specialize more towards the artistic side of the business rather than the ENG side then it’s almost guaranteed that someone some day will ask if your camera can shoot 24p.
– Don
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[stephen may] “I’d be interested to know what the factory default is for CAC; on or off?”
The default factory setting is W/A CAC off.
– Don
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[Ronnie James] “do you have any external FW drives hooked up to your system?”
Yeah I do but I’m not using them for transferring footage via Sony’s Transfer app. For that I have an internal SATA media array (3 drives) in the Mac Pro.
– Don
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Very strange. Must be a leopard thing then or maybe a combo of Leopard and perhaps your installed version of QT. I don’t have OS 10.5 on any of my machines yet, so I can’t try and duplicate your issue.
But you can still transfer whole clips without a problem, right?
– Don
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This is probably a real long shot but did you make sure that wide angle CAC is turned off in your EX menu?
Thanks for posting the Studio Daily link. I found the article and companion video clips quite interesting.
– Don