Don Greening
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[Scott Bruffey] “It seems that pulling the battery and making sure no power is hooked up, “clears” some temporary setting but I’m flummoxed as to what it is.”
You have to pull the memory battery as well to be sure the camera’s settings are entirely cleared. If you’ve never changed the memory battery in 6 years now might be a good time. You can also try using the RESET ALL function in the OTHERS menu and see if that helps.
Make sure the focus ring is pulled all the way back so that the auto focus motor is completely disconnected. To check back focus set everything to manual then zoom all the way in to an object, adjust focus, zoom all the way back wide then zoom all the way in once more. If the focus is still good then the back focus is fine. If not then you need to do a flange back adjustment. You can find the instructions here:
https://reeltimevideoworks.com/blog/sony-pmw-ex1-flangeback-adjust/
If I think of anything else I’ll add to this post.
– Don
Don Greening
A Vancouver Video Production Company
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Glad I was able to be of some assistance.
You should have seen the look I got from my wife when I told her that earlier today I had a marriage proposal from some guy on Creative COW.
She said “Does that happen a lot?”
“No, this’ll be the first one and hopefully it’s the last.”
Cheers,
-Don
Don Greening
A Vancouver Video Production Company
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In order to create a new BPAV folder for your MP4 clips you’ll need one of two available Sony apps. The first one is a legacy app called Clip Browser and the other and current one is called Content Browser. You can find Clip Browser here:
Copy and paste the above link into your browser. Towards the bottom of the page look for Legacy XDCAM Applications. Click on the link and download the following file:
XDZ-P1 XDCAM EX Clip Browser Version 2.6
Using Sony’s Clip Browser software you can take an orphaned or ‘stand alone’ .mp4 file from an XDCAM EX and create a new BPAV folder for that file,
Courtesy of a previous post by Ian Cook who works for Sony:
“Point the (Clip Browser) top Explorer window to a location (‘Desktop,’ for example), select File–>Import, browse to the .mp4 and try to import it. If this works it will create a new BPAV folder containing the rebuilt clip in the specified location.”
If you decide to read the entire thread from which this quote was taken you can find it here:
https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/142/874389#874394
The newest Content Browser program doesn’t seem to be free anymore but it is available and works much the same way for importing orphaned files as Clip Browser does. You can find this one at the same link above and it’s the first one on the list.
– Don
Don Greening
A Vancouver Video Production Company
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No one here will berate you for your methods of recording/transferring your media. SDHC card recording is inherently risky compared to SxS Pro media but a lot of people use these cards without issue, as long as they’re good quality SD cards.
A bit more information is required from you in order to suggest a course of action.
When you say XDCAM do you mean XDCAM HD or XDCAM EX format?
When you say “dragged and dropped the footage files from the SD card to my hard drive” did you copy only the MP4 files or did you import the entire BPAV folder? This is assuming that your files are XDCAM EX.
If you are indeed referring to copying the BPAV folder (which is the what you should be doing) then retry importing the unaltered folder using Sony’s clip browser, making sure that error checking is enabled. If you only have orphaned MP4 XDCAM EX files there is a way to create a new BPAV folder that contains your clips.
Another reason that FCP7’s Log and Transfer tool may not be able to find the files is if you’ve renamed the BPAV folder to something other than BPAV. None of Sony’s many media transfer applications will be able to “see” video files inside any folder that’s not called BPAV.
Could you also be a little clearer about what you mean by “the MP4 files suck.” Are they corrupted in some way? Can you view them on your Machine? BTW, are you using MAC or Windows?
– Don
Don Greening
A Vancouver Video Production Company
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Thanks for the post Graham.
– Don
Don Greening
A Vancouver Video Production Company
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What Ian, Clint, Mike and Michael said……….
When SD cards and adapters first became available for these cameras even Philip Bloom said “They’re too risky.” The savings of using cheaper SDHC cards are not worth losing customers and your reputation over in MHO. I practice safe SxS.
– Don
Don Greening
A Vancouver Video Production Company
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Now you’re embarrassing me, Bob. Thank you for your kind words. And as far as getting to know you on a more personal level: it’s been my privilege.
Cheers,
– Don
Don Greening
A Vancouver Video Production Company
Reeltime Videoworks
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Aha! So THIS is where Bob Cole’s been hiding out. And I thought you’d checked out of the COW. Nice to see you’re still around. Peace.
– Don
Don Greening
A Vancouver Video Production Company
Reeltime Videoworks
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Use the slow/quick motion record feature on your EX1. Set the frame size to 720 and the frame rate to 60fps. This will give you a 50% reduction in speed which actually looks better than recording a straight 720p 60 clip that you slow down in post. I wouldn’t call half speed super slow mo. but it’s better than nothing. For an even slower shot you would need something like Twixtor to convert it, but any modern NLE should make a half decent slower shot out of something that’s already at 50% speed.
– Don
Don Greening
A Vancouver Video Production Company
Reeltime Videoworks
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Have you tried pulling the memory battery for a few minutes so the camera can restart with the default settings? This means disconnecting the regular battery as well.
– D
Don Greening
A Vancouver Video Production Company
Reeltime Videoworks
http://www.reeltimevideoworks.com