Don Greening
Forum Replies Created
-
Most who shoot for a full length feature film will generally use 1080 24p with a starting shutter speed of 1/48th.sec. Of course, there’s so much more to achieving the ‘film look’ than just frame rate and shutter speed.
– Don
Don Greening
Reeltime Videoworks
http://www.reeltimevideoworks.com -
[Michael Palmer] “Try setting the camera to 24p format then look at that setting, or make sure you have a newer firmware.”
Yeah, that’s what you have to do so it’s not grayed out: Set your recording format to 24p and then in genlock you can choose between 60i or 24psf (progressive segmented frame).
– Don
Don Greening
Reeltime Videoworks
http://www.reeltimevideoworks.com -
[virendra khanna] “Hope they should have not much problem.”
It shouldn’t be a huge problem going from 25p to 23.976. Conforming 29.97 (or 30p) to 23.976 is worse. Good luck with your project.
– Don
Don Greening
Reeltime Videoworks
http://www.reeltimevideoworks.com -
If you have Sony’s Clip Browser version 2.6 you can import orphaned MP4 files and Clip Browser will generate a new BPAV folder. If any of the MP4 files are larger than 4 Gbytes Clip Browser may reject the import because of the FAT32 file size limit on meda cards.
Here is a possible workaround to the FAT32 limit kindly explained by Ian Cook from Sony:
“Clip Browser does not support files over 4 GB. Unfortunately it is a known limitation of the software. However, XDCAM Transfer 2.12 supports loose .mp4s so the file should be importable into FCP. Try adding the folder with your .mp4s as a source in Transfer.”
– Don
Don Greening
Reeltime Videoworks
http://www.reeltimevideoworks.com -
When you record XDCAM EX media on to a card there’s only one folder on that card and it’s called BPAV. That’s the folder name that XDCAM Transfer and Clip Browser look for when they do their thing. If the folder is named anything else the programs will not recognize the EX files within the BPAV folders no matter what. That’s why when you copy a BPAV folder to a storage device you must create an uniquely named folder for each BPAV you record. And never alter the contents of a BPAV folder in any way.
I’ve never heard of anybody creating a disc image of a card but I suppose it’s another way of archiving. However, nothing is more simpler than the way I’ve described. If you can go back in your workflow and somehow take the contents of each disc image you’ve made and return each BPAV folder to its original state then use the above workflow in the 1st paragraph.
– Don
Don Greening
Reeltime Videoworks
http://www.reeltimevideoworks.com -
What’s your subject matter? If it’s just something like talking heads at a convention I would first of all go with the SP setting for all the shots. This will dramatically extend the recording times on the media you end up using.
Personally, I’ve only had experience with SxS Pro cards so I would be using those for an extended shoot. A 32G card shooting SP 1080 would last 160 min and the cards are near bulletproof. If you don’t have any rent some and hot swap the cards during the shoot. Use your laptop to transfer the footage from card to hard drive. Anyway, this is what I would do.
If you have a reliable and tested way of recording direct to hard drive using your lap top then that would be an option. I’ve never used the PHU-120 recorder but a friend has rented one with success. If you rented 2 of them your recording problem would be solved for the 12 hours.
Whatever you decide to do make sure you test everything thoroughly beforehand. You don’t need any surprises on shooting day.
– Don
Don Greening
Reeltime Videoworks
http://www.reeltimevideoworks.com -
Hi Virendra,
Welcome to Creative COW.
The flavour of 24p found in the PMW EX series of cameras is not exactly 24 frames a second, but is in fact 23.976 fps. which is based on NTSC formats. That’s why it’s found under the NTSC listings in the camera menu.
– Don
Don Greening
Reeltime Videoworks
http://www.reeltimevideoworks.com -
[Craig Seeman] “You’d think Sony could make a large sensor interchangeable lens camera with the same codec for about the price of an EX3 $8K.”
Maybe Sony doesn’t plan on actually selling the F3 since it’s really just a hodge podge collection of high and low end parts flying in formation. Maybe they just showed it off to see if we’re all awake enough to say “WHA…..?”
– Don
Don Greening
Reeltime Videoworks
http://www.reeltimevideoworks.com -
And it’s because a CCD sensor gets scanned all at once whereas a CMOS sensor is scanned from bottom to top over time, or progressively. Sometimes a camera flash will be split between 2 frames, hence the ‘banding’ terminology.
As an aside, I actually prefer the banding over the complete frame blowout because you can at least see some of the frame. I’ve never had a single person complain about flash banding, which leads me to believe that the shooters/editors get more freaked out about the issue than the end user does.
– Don
Don Greening
Reeltime Videoworks
http://www.reeltimevideoworks.com -
If memory serves the last version of Premiere in CS4 was the first time native mp4 files could be ingested and editied without some sort of transcode first.
– Don
Don Greening
Reeltime Videoworks
http://www.reeltimevideoworks.com