Don Greening
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Just make sure it really is fixed before you start dancing in the streets but, you’re welcome.
– Don
Don Greening
A Vancouver Video Production Company
Reeltime Videoworks
http://www.reeltimevideoworks.com -
Best of luck with solving this issue. I wish I could be more helpful but I have no experience at all with SDHC.
Suggestions:
- Try someone’s SxS card and see if the issue persists.
- RESET ALL from the OTHERS menu.
- Pull memory and main battery for 15 minutes (you never know….)
If the issue is the same with a borrowed SxS card then send the damn thing into Sony and tell them to fix it. The expense will be well worth it if the problem goes away.
Cheers my friend.
– Don
Don Greening
A Vancouver Video Production Company
Reeltime Videoworks
http://www.reeltimevideoworks.com -
[W. Lawrence Stevens] “I’m fairly fed up.”
Please don’t take this the wrong way, but whatever the issue is, blame it on the fact that you use SDHC cards and not the recommended SxS cards. In other words, don’t blame the camera. Sony won’t condone the use of 3rd party cards for a very good reason: some work wonderfully and some will not work properly at all, even those of the same make, model and manufacturing lot number. Same goes for the SDHC 3rd party adapters. Go figure. If you find an SDHC card and adapter that works reliably then you’ve found some inexpensive media and more power to you. But you can also be badly burned and lose clients in the process.
Don’t get me wrong. I’ve talked to camera people that shoot with EX cameras and travel all over the world and use SDHC cards exclusively. They can’t understand why I don’t use them too because they haven’t had a problem. That’s fine for them. But I also hear stories like yours. I don’t hear these stories from using SxS.
Personally, I’m willing to pay (a lot) more for SxS Pro cards and at the end of the day know I’m going to be able to transfer and edit all my clips without a hitch. I’ve owned an EX1 since December of 2007 and now have an EX1R and an EX3. In that time I’ve never had a media transfer or recording issue. Never.
I don’t like losing clients because of something I did, like having equipment failure. Your choice.
– Don
Don Greening
A Vancouver Video Production Company
Reeltime Videoworks
http://www.reeltimevideoworks.com -
If you’re interested, check out the offerings from Juice Designs as well. I use their EX1R base plate and arm and am very happy with it. Having a 3rd party base plate for the EX1, EX1R and EX3 is a must. Especially the EX3.
https://juicedesigns.myshopify.com/products/ex1-ex1r-base-plate
– Don
Don Greening
A Vancouver Video Production Company
Reeltime Videoworks
http://www.reeltimevideoworks.com -
[Mark Frazier] “Any other ideas?”
Sure. Trash the XDCAM Transfer preference file.
The path is: Macintosh HD>Users>yourname>Library>Preferences>com.sony.bprl.xdcamtransfer.plist.
Trash that file and restart XDCAM Transfer. The program will create a new preference file on startup. See if that solves it.
– Don
Don Greening
A Vancouver Video Production Company
Reeltime Videoworks
http://www.reeltimevideoworks.com -
[Kevin Patrick] “o, if there is an option for this in Browser, I’d like to know it and save me the step using Transfer.”
Clip Browser is the copy/upload tool and XDCAM Transfer is the unwrapping tool. There’s no copy function in Transfer. Eventually the new XDCAM Browser will be more mainstream and this combines both functions.
– Don
Don Greening
A Vancouver Video Production Company
Reeltime Videoworks
http://www.reeltimevideoworks.com -
In addition to Bill’s sage advice, keep in mind that the camera may have actually recorded the bad frames (a rarity) and the fault is not with the integrity of the recording media. If this is the case then copying the clips using Clip Browser with CRC checking on or another third party program the bad frames will be faithfully reproduced in every detail.
– Don
Don Greening
A Vancouver Video Production Company
Reeltime Videoworks
http://www.reeltimevideoworks.com -
Something else to try then, is to de-install the Sony driver. It does come with a de-install feature. Once that’s done then repair disk permissions using either Disk Utility or a program such as Onyx (free). Then re-install the driver and repair permissions once again. You should also have a copy of DiskWarrior to rebuild your hard drive’s directory. Over time directories become corrupted from use and DiskWarrior will re-establish links between programming and (among other things) their various extensions. DiskWarrior is an important program to have in your kit.
https://www.alsoft.com/diskwarrior/
Cheers,
D
Don Greening
A Vancouver Video Production Company
Reeltime Videoworks
http://www.reeltimevideoworks.com -
I had a colleague with this problem on her older 15″ Macbook Pro. The issue is (and you’ve already discovered this) that the various Sony transfer/browser apps cannot find the driver software even though it’s installed. We solved it by getting Apple’s Disk Utility to repair the startup volume. Since your Macbook Pro’s startup drive can’t be in use during the repair you can either run Disk Utility from your MacOS install disk or connect your laptop to another Mac via firewire. Start your Macbook Pro in firewire mode and its hard drive will appear on the desktop of the host Mac. Use that machine’s Disk Utility to repair the laptop’s startup drive.
This solution worked for us.
– Don
Don Greening
A Vancouver Video Production Company
Reeltime Videoworks
http://www.reeltimevideoworks.com -
[Bob Cole] “I don’t understand 24PsF, despite having just read the Wikipedia article on it.”
PsF appeared in the early 1990’s as a way to easily share video between broadcasters. Sony (and others) still uses it because broadcasters want to get as much use out of their aging interlacing gear as possible and the camera makers make most of their money by selling to broadcasters.
PsF (progressive segmented frame) splits the progressive frame into odd and even lines to fit the interlacing signal. True interlacing has 60 partial frames a second and each of those frames shows a completely different point in time, along with the motion associated with it. 30 frame PsF uses the same format and the progressive frame is split into odd and even lines to fill 2 interlacing frames but there is only a frame change (and therefore motion change) every 30th of a second. At the other end of the pipe what emerges is a re-assembled true progressive frame. 24p can still be recorded as PsF with the addition of pull-down.
PsF exists solely to add more life to legacy interlaced gear.
– Don
Don Greening
A Vancouver Video Production Company
Reeltime Videoworks
http://www.reeltimevideoworks.com