Don Greening
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[Michael Slowe] “For me wind noise is the big problem, no matter what ‘fluffies’ I use.”
Some people refer to those as ‘dead cats’ except for Craig 🙂 I use one made by K-Tek and it works pretty well. I was in stiff breezes all day Tues. in the mountains and the audio has no rumble.
– Don
Don Greening
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[Andy Morin] “What do i do with the channel 2 EXT/INT option on the back, and do I need to change anything on the audio input menu?”
No, not a thing. If you have it set to external but there’s nothing connected you won’t get anything on that channel. You could set it to internal and you’ll get the internal mic on that side but the trim you’ve already set for external won’t affect the internal mic.
– Don
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Basically, if a mic is powered (like with an internal battery) you use the “mic” setting. If it’s not powered then set it to “mic 48v”. in the case of your wireless rig, it’s powered so just set that channel to “mic”. Turn your 2 volume controls to the middle, or “5” on the 1 to 10 scale. Go into the audio menu and use the trim settings for each channel until you’re getting good signal strength showing on your meters from each of the 2 attached mics. Don’t let the peak signal go past minus 12 or sometimes -10 dBu on your meters, otherwise the signal will clip, leaving you with hash instead of clean audio. Leave yourself some headroom on your volume controls to allow lowering or raising the fine tuning of the levels. Hence the setting of “5” as a ballpark starting point.
– Don
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Hi Michael,
You’re on the right track with the software. Minimum Mac requirements are:
Mac OS 10.4.11
Quicktime 7.3.1
Final Cut Pro 6.0.2You’ll also need the SxS driver so that your laptop recognizes your SxS memory card as an attached device. In addition you’ll need Sony’s Clip Browser Software (which is basically a copying tool) to transfer the media from card to computer. Finally, you’ll need Sony’s XDCAM Transfer Software to transcode the native XDCAM EX MP4 files to Quicktime files for use in FCP. With the conversion FCP will not recognize the media. You can get all this free software here:
https://www.sony.ca/xdcamex/support.htm
And yes, the SxS Pro Memory cards will insert directly into the laptop’s Express 34 slot without the need for an adapter.
-Don
Don Greening
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Make sure your converted footage really is 23.976 for both cameras. I know that the 5D shoots straight 30p as well and people have sync issues when using 29.97 from a video camera if they’re unaware of the difference. I don’t know if I’d trust MPEG Streamclip implicitly for the transcode. Maybe try a test with a bit of footage from both cameras but this time let Compressor handle it. See if that makes a difference.
– Don
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Right. I figured there must be something more to it than just the connection space. It also could be a marketing thing with AJA as well. Leave some of the components and capabilities only for the Ki Pro.
– Don
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[Craig Seeman] “Inexpensive iKan monitors for example.”
and the 9″ Small HD monitor for another. It’s got all the other connections too, but they’re touting the HDMI in their ads. There’s going to be a lot of prosumer camera owners that will be S.O.L. if they want the Ki Pro Mini but don’t have HDMI or SDI. It’s obvious connection space is tight but it’s too bad AJA couldn’t find the room for the 3 component connectors.
– Don
Don Greening
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I’ll be swinging it, and probably twice.
– Don
Don Greening
Reeltime Videoworks
http://www.reeltimevideoworks.com