Don Greening
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[Chris Babbitt] “Go to System Preferences/Spotlight/Privacy and drag your video and audio render folders into the window.”
Wouldn’t these folders be on your media drive(s) along with all other project-specific media other than the project file? If that’s the case then simply drag the drive/RAID icon into Spotlight’s privacy window.
– Don
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To capture widescreen 30P just use the same FCP preset that you would normally use to capture 60i from your XL2, which is DV NTSC Anamorphic if you live in NTSC land or DV PAL Anamorphic if you live in PAL land.
If you’re still having TC break issues and you know for sure there are no breaks on the tape, trash FCP’s preference files and give it another go.
– Don
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[Ron Shook] “That would certainly be good if it works out to be the case.
“It’s always been understood that once an SxS card is inserted into a laptop’s Express 34 slot it will show up on the desktop as a device like anything else: hard drive, etc. So, at least for the Mac people, once the media’s been transfered using the Sony software you can start up Disk Utility, select the card from the various choices and format in FAT32. Should only take a few seconds.
I’ve no idea what the PC people will do (I’m not a user) but everything is FAT32 for them anyway. I think. Also, since FAT32 has a 4GB file size limit I suspect the camera will start a new clip when that limit is reached.
– Don
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[Ron Shook] “Can that be done in the lappy or is it limited to the camera?”
According to Juan Martinez (Sony rep) the SxS Pro memory cards are formatted in FAT32 binary. He’s quoted as saying that you can use either your computer or camera to reformat a card as long as it’s formatted in FAT32.
He also said the reason for the FAT32 format was to mantain cross-platform compatability.
Hope this info is helpful to anyone that was curious.
– Don
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Okay, fair enough Craig. No problem.
– Don
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[solonlquinn] “On a side note about the DVX 100b, does anyone know what the “squeeze” option does? Does it cause loss of resolution?”
Yes, you do lose resolution because the camera is cutting off the top an bottom of your picture and then expanding what’s left to the 16:9 aspect ratio. The result is still a 720×480 picture but it’s anamorphic, so when you bring it into FCP or any other NLE you have to tell your program that it’s widescreen, then it will pop out to approx. 853×480.
If you don’t want to lose resolution but still need a widescreen picture use an anamorphic lens attachment. You leave the camera in 4:3 mode and the adapter will take a widescreen image and squeeze it into a fullscreen space. I use one on my PD170 all the time.
– Don
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[Craig Seeman] “I’ve scene DoF test posted to another forum that I found “shocking” IMHO.”
Which forum was it, Craig? I wouldn’t mind having a look.
– Don
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For what it’s worth, the manual states that you can format a card in-camera while the camera continues to record to the other card. The manual also states that an SxS Pro card formatted by a device other than the camera will have to be re-formatted by the camera before it can be used again.
Perhaps the Sony transfer software will have the ability to reformat a card before being inserted into the camera for another go.
– Don
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[Pedro Ferreira] “F900 would have CMOS…or F23 too…you see..”
I disagree. I’ve seen the picture from the EX firsthand and can say that CMOS technology is on par and in some respects better than its CCD bretheren, especially when it comes to contrast. The high end CCD cameras you mentioned continue to be CCD because they were designed from the ground up to use those chips. Changing those cameras over to CMOS and the supporting in-camera hardware/software would incur a huge expense for the manufacturer. Also, Sony has a new 1/2″ CMOS chip, not a new 2/3″ CMOS chip, which is what the cameras you mentioned require. Anything less would be unacceptable to the buyer. Besides, the EX uses the new EXMOR CMOS technology which wasn’t around when cameras like the F900 were ready for production.
But of course, the question you initially asked was:
[Pedro Ferreira] “will my neighbour competitor leave me eating dust in normal Lighting conditions?”
The short answer is yes. The XMOR 1/2″ CMOS imagers are (at least) 2 stops faster than the 1/3″ CCD HDV imagers.
– Don
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[rafalaos] “I meant, is not like until now that you had to buy a PAL or NTSC camera. Now those are just two options of the many that the processor allows”
Exactly, and I think too, with tape based cameras it was more of a problem, but not with disk or flash memory recording.
– Don