Don Greening
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– Don
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[iMan] “1. Will the XL2 and FCP5 still have those old anying (rendering the combo of Canon and FCP useless) sync issues?”
I’ve personally had no problems with sync issues since FCP 4.5 and now FCP Studio on either the XL2 or GL2. I use a cheap Sony 1 chip as a FW deck. I’ve logged over 60 min. in one go with no sync problems.
[iMan] “Is the picture quality of the XL2 better than the XL1? (I had an XL1 and was not impressed with it’s image quality after I compaired it with a freinds JVC GY-GD500).”
– Don
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It may be something as simple as logging in to your admin. account and then choosing the command “Get Info” (apple – i) after you’ve highlighted each of your media drive icons on the desktop. At the bottom of the window that appears make sure that there’s a check mark in the box for “ignore ownership permissions.” In addition you’ll probably have to make sure all the other dialogue menus in the same window are changed to “read and write”. To change them all, click the disclosure triangle for “Details” and the rest of the read and write menus will come up for the “group” and “others”. Then use the “apply to enclosed items” button so everyone from the other accounts can work with the files contained on each media drive.
– Don
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Peter, if your last question was also directed at me, I’m a Mac person. I was just commenting on your website.
– Don
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I’ve never heard of the sbr 1000 but here’s a link to another type of brace that I use with the XL2, which is very close in size and weight to the XL-H1:
https://www.varizoom.com/products/supports/vzlsp.html
There are several brace options out there, of which the VariZoom piece at the link above is one of them.
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The explanation is a bit confusing, so bear with me. The Canon XL2 does shoot native widescreen but the actual chip size is 4×3. What they do is disable the top and bottom pixels to get a 16×9 widescreen aspect ratio when you choose to shoot in 16:9. When you want to shoot in 4:3 mode the pixels on the sides of the chips are also disabled to give you the full screen aspect ratio. Does that make sense?
For more info go to this link where the XL2 CCD technology is explained in much greater detail:
https://videosystems.com/mag/1204_video_canon_xl2/
Hope this helps.
– Don
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Looks like Peter uses at least one XL2, if the picture on the equipment page is any indication.
Nice website , Peter.
– Don
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Then I think one of those video clips has become corrupt. Are you having transition problems with just those 2 clips? Have you tried creating a new sequence with the 2 clips only and seeinig if that works?
Maybe take one of the clips into a new sequence and try a transition to a completely different clip. If that works do the same with offending clip number 2. Try the 2 clips transitioning together without the audio. Sometimes an audio file corruption will affect the video. If you still have access to the original source clips try capturing again to see if that makes a difference.
All I can think of at the moment.
– Don
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Make sure you have enough video handles to do a successful transition from the end of the outgoing clip and the beginning of the incoming clip. For example, if you’re doing a 1 second cross dissolve between 2 clips you need at least 15 frames at the end/beginning of each of those clips. Failure to do that will reveal any video clips below the two you’re using for your transition. Hence the reveal of your “phantom frame”.
– Don
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Exellent! Thanks Jeff.
– Don