Don Greening
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[Kyle_S] “The 350 has ccd’s. “
You are correct, sir. And I’m going with the lost rep thing 😉
– Don
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[Nick Righton] “I currently have the F set to 2.4 with no gain”
Back in September a fellow in the UK (Alistair Chapman) did a test with a couple of EX’s and an F350. He found that the EX was at least a stop faster in low light, and quite possibly two stops faster than the F350. That fact was a major deal maker for me, and in another week or so I’ll be able to find out what kind of low light picture noise the EX has when Sony shows up at a local trade show. If it’s no more than my DP170 I’ll be ordering the EX poste haste.
https://www.sonybiz.net/biz/view/ShowContent.action?site=biz_en_EU&contentId=1187079500753
– Don
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Robert,
You can still get the software from the the Sony web site. It’s a 129meg file that also includes the EX1 owner’s manual .pdf as well as the transfer software that will be shipping with the camera.
https://www.sonybiz.net/biz/view/ShowContent.action?site=biz_en_GB&contentId=1193315622075
– Don
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Hi Martin,
Welcome to Creative COW. Rest assured that if there was something inherently wrong in the design of the A1 this forum would be swamped with posts similar to yours. Since this isn’t the case I would suggest that there is either something wrong with your particular cameras or there’s something happening when you’re capturing to your NLE. It’s not unheard of to have the same problem present in two cameras with serial numbers that are close together. I’m not saying this is the case, but if you’ve played back your problem tapes in the A1’s and you’re seeing the dropouts in your camera’s viewscreens as well as in the captured footage in your NLE then I would return them to your broadcast supplier post haste and find out from them what their recommendations are. Since the cameras are so new they may just give you two new ones instead of sending your present ones in for repair.
Also ask your supplier what tape stock THEY recommend.
Keep in mind that when you get a tape dropout with HDV it’s going to last at least a half second because of the nature of the long GOP MPEG2 recording format. Also, try and avoid using the thinner 83 min. tapes because they’re much more prone to dropouts than the thicker 63’s. Once your cameras have some miles on them they may be a little friendlier to the 83’s. I know this was the case with my XL2 when it was new, and I use the exact same Panny tapes that you’re using.
– Don
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What kind of cameras are you using?
– Don
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Well hopefully you made a clone of your previous system on another HD containing Tiger 10.4.10 and and all your apps. That way you can reboot with the clone and keep working like nothing happened. Otherwise, depending on how important your project is, you may have to drag out your Tiger install discs one more time 🙂
But since you can still transfer and edit it shouldn’t be too much of an imposition about the clip/disc naming.
– Don
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Rumor mill has the update tied to the release of the XDCAM EX, which is sometime in November.
– Don
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[Craig Seeman] “The link you point do does not contain the viewer or plugin needed for the EX1.”
I stand corrected. The brochure states that the software that ships with the EX will contain the items I referred to, and like you said, that same software will most likely become available online at the same time. My point was that there is a workflow available immediately upon opening your new EX box. OTOH, when the FCP update will arrive is anyone’s guess.
– Don
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[David Roth Weiss] “but it seems something has apparently changed under the hood in FCP 6. “
Not really, David. I’ve been shooting/recording with 32K audio from the Canon XL series cameras since FCP v.1x and my work path hasn’t changed much at all. Now I’m using FCP v.6.0.1.
Capturing 32K audio without changing to a custom capture preset setting will invite a multitude of problems, including sync issues, audio pops and glitches. The reason is because FCP thinks it’s capturing 48K audio but it’s not.
Once you’ve captured your lower quality audio, set your audio playback pref to lower quality and just drag it into your 48K track. With the lower quality setting you don’t get the red render bar or the beeping (which you can turn off, BTW). Edit as normal, then when finished reset the audio pref to high quality, render and you’re done. No sync issues, and FCP does a fine job of upscaling the 32K audio to 48.
– Don
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Craig,
All the info from my previous post comes from the EX brochure @ the Sony site.
https://www.sonybiz.net/res/attachment/file/09/1187079501109.pdf
– Don