[Don Greening]

If you don’t have FCP on that laptop you won’t be able to see the clips within the Sony Transfer app. The EX codec resides with FCP and not with the Sony software. You can see the clips with the Sony Clip Browser, however, but the Transfer app needs the FCP codec to operate properly.

Not sure what you mean about naming folders. If you’re referring to changing the BPAV folder name to something else…….don’t, otherwise the Sony Transfer Tool will NOT see them when it’s time to transfer the EX files to your editing suite. If you want to store several BPAV folders from offloaded cards on the same hard drive then put them in separate folders each with a unique folder name. Not sure if this is the info you’re after or not.

With an SxS card inserted in the Macbook Pro you can highlight the card and choose “Get Info” from the file menu in the finder and change the name of the card that way.

– Don

[Don Greening]

[Andrew Gregg] “Would I be correct in assuming the same advice should hold true for 720 24p, and that a 24p timeline would make the 60 fps stuff even slower? “

Absolutely. The slowest slow mo effect would be to shoot 720 24p at a frame rate of 60.

[Andrew Gregg] “And, is there any way to convert the 60p stuff down to 30p or 24p to make it look a little more natural?”

Not that I’ve tried putting 30p or 60p into a 24p project myself I’m pretty sure that you can do the frame rate conversion successfully. Just drop your 30p stuff into a 24p timeline, right or control click on the footage and choose media manager. The window that pops up will allow you to transcode the footage into 24p. Or you can highlight the 30p footage, go to the file menu and choose “Export Using Compressor.” which will essentially give you more options to convert to 24p. If it was me I don’t think I’d go the 24p route because it may make the footage even more jerky as there’s even less temporal resolution to work with. But you can do a test with any of the frame rates and choose which one looks best.

– Don

[Don Greening]

[Andrew Gregg] “I recorded the project in 720 60p, just to experiment with the slow motion.”

Shooting in 720p 60fps is not the correct setting for shooting slow mo. If you want smooth slow mo you need to shoot 720p 30 fps and then enter the “S&Q Motion” mode. Then adjust your frame rate anywhere from 31fps to the maximum of 60fps. If you shoot at 60fps using the “S&Q Motion” mode your clip will play at half speed and you can check the result right away in the camera.

Using the regular 720p 60 mode is good for capturing fast action sequences such as sports but I’ve never been able to get decent looking slow mo in post using this setting.

– Don

[Don Greening]

How about starting with the “trashing FCP preferences” answer.

https://forums.creativecow.net/readpost/8/988858

– Don

[Don Greening]

[Buck Forester] “Hey Don, with the Sony .80x adapter, are you saying the lens hood is fixed?”

Yes, the tulip shade is actually glued on to the lens body. Some people that have the Sony adapter are removing or cutting it off (somehow) so they can use it with a matte box. Also, there are no filter threads on the front of it, either. Have a look:

https://www.dvinfo.net/conf/attachment.php?attachmentid=6803&d=1206648166

– Don

[Don Greening]

You won’t hurt anything by trashing the pref. files and it may very well solve your issue. But as you say in your first post, you’ve always had a problem capturing. Have you alsways used the same capture deck and cable? If you’re still having issues after the preference trashing try using or borrowing a different deck/connection combo as a test just to make sure there’s no issues in that regard.

– Don

[Don Greening]

Gabrielle, try trashing the FCP preference files then start another log and capture. See if that solves it.

Here’s how to trash your preferences the right way and an explanation as to why you need to do this from time to time:

https://www.kenstone.net/fcp_homepage/trashing_fcp_prefs.html

You can also get a free utility program called FCP Rescue that will do this task for you. You can find that here:

https://fcprescue.andersholck.com/

– Don

[Don Greening]

Thanks, Shane.

– Don

[Don Greening]

A 10 second search in the FCP forum came up with this:

https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/8/894582#894612

There is a recent plugin for FCP that will bring back a certain amount of over-exposed detail but for the most part once a digital signal is clipped it’s unrecoverable. I’ll try and find the name of the plugin and post back when I do. I think it’s a plugin by Captain Mench (don’t know his real name). Shane Ross or some others on the forum here will know who and what I’m talking about.

– Don

[Don Greening]

[Mickey Houlihan] “Would it be safe to assume that all cameras beyond a certain serial # have the 1.05 version?”

I wouldn’t assume that if I was purchasing right now. I’ve heard reports of other users purchasing recently and discovering earlier firmware versions. If you buy now you can always check the version by having the store access the EX’s extra menus.

– Don