Don Greening
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[Olly Lawer] ” I like this plan, but could this do more harm then good?”
If it doesn’t work you’ll still have to send the card in anyway. What have you got to lose?
– Don
Don Greening
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[William Mims] ” too bad I am a Yank.”
My wife actually has an aunt and uncle living in Turlock CA but keep that under your hat 🙂 They’re pretty nice ‘yanks’ too.
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If you empty or reformat your cards using something other than the camera you’ll sometimes get the reformat warning.
[William Mims] “he EX 3 had divided the 42 minute piece into 4 sections and I never turned off the camera during that time.”
Cards are formatted in FAT32 so both Mac and PCs can read and write to them. FAT32 has a 4Gbyte file size limit so the longer clips get broken up in pieces. The Sony software programs put them back together when you transfer. So yeah, it’s normal.
– Don
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Is your Flicker Reduce in the 1st menu is set to ON or AUTO turn it off and then re-test.
– Don
Don Greening
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I’m not familiar at all with Pro Presenter but If that program can play back an MP4 then I would output that. The way I do it is to just use Quicktime Player Pro and export an H.264 with an MP4 wrapper. It looks really good and is a lightweight codec provided your bit rate isn’t excessive.
– Don
Don Greening
A Vancouver Video Production Company
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Hey Paul,
I see you’re a Mac house. Try mounting that problem card on your desktop. Do you have a Macbook Pro with the Express 34 slot? If not then put the card in a reader or your camera and see if Disk Utility can “see” the missing files. If you have Disk Warrior try that as well and see if the program can find the card’s directory and rebuild it. These are all shots in the dark but either they’ll work right away or they won’t. This actually happened to me once a few years ago but it was only a couple of unimportant test clips. I didn’t pursue it. I have a feeling that the missing clips are on your card but the directory is corrupt. Also, see if you can trick the camera into doing the ‘restore’ function. In order to do that you need to create an anomaly on the card that the camera won’t like.
EDIT: and I would try all this on a hard drive direct copy of your card first.
– Don
Don Greening
A Vancouver Video Production Company
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Probably plus 9 on the gain would be my upper limit with the EX1. If you don’t have too much picture noise in the shot you can push the CC a bit more in post. There are also a few really good noise reducer plugins these days.
– Don
Don Greening
A Vancouver Video Production Company
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{english accent} “It’s not dead, it’s just sleeping.”
– Don
Don Greening
A Vancouver Video Production Company
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A colleague of mine had the same issue. She has a 15″ Macbook Pro running OS 10.6.6. Her SxS card wouldn’t show up as an attached device no matter what I tried. Once I repaired her startup disk using Disk Utility it started working fine. Disk Utility found issues which were repairable. Perhaps your laptop will respond in the same way. Keep in mind that to repair the startup disk you need to startup with your OS Install disk or hook up another computer via firewire and startup your laptop in target disk mode.
– Don
Don Greening
A Vancouver Video Production Company
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[Clint Fleckenstein] “I figured it may be another manifestation of that “near-infrared” situation.”
Indeed. But I guess your theory (and it’s a good one) would only apply to the EX1 and EX3. It looks like the OP has an EX1R so manually increasing Kelvin temps somewhere past 5600 would seem to be the most logical way to do it. BTW, it’s actually referred to as ‘far red’ because infra-red is at the far end of the red spectrum that’s not visible to the unclothed eye.
– Don
Don Greening
A Vancouver Video Production Company
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