Don Greening
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The first and simplest thing I’d try is to do a camera reset. I’m not familiar with the F3’s various menus but the ALL RESET function is probably in the OTHERS menu. See if that solves your audio issue before you have to dig deeper.
– Don
Don Greening
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Get a new Mac Pro. Among other things it comes with 2 GPUs and would be perfect for your line of work.
– Don
Don Greening
A Vancouver Video Production Company
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Marc,
You mention that you now have picture noise that wasn’t there previously. Unless you remember changing a setting to cause this then perhaps it’s something than can be solved by resetting the camera back to its factory defaults.
Remember that these cameras are basically lenses with computers screwed on to the backs of them and as such are prone to the occasional file corruption such as settings etc. Go to the OTHERS menu and choose RESET ALL from the menu and see if that solves it.
Case in point: one of my cameras developed an undesirable hum in channel 2 even with nothing attached to that channel. Since I had not changed any settings prior to this I reset the camera and lo and behold……..
Another way of resetting the camera to make sure it really DOES get reset is to pull both the main and memory batteries for a few minutes.
– Don
Don Greening
A Vancouver Video Production Company
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Try using the camera to reformat the card instead of just deleting the clips. See if that solves it. I don’t have a PMW 200 but with my EX1R and EX3 when I delete clips they don’t show up again. I’m using Sony SxS Pro cards. You didn’t mention what cards you use.
– Don
Don Greening
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[Mary Mullan] “For the BPAV1 folder it says ‘0’ clips. “
That’s because the folder name is BPAV1 instead of BPAV. You cannot have more than one BPAV folder within a parent folder (one that you’ve created and named). Create another parent folder with a name of your choosing, drag the BPAV1 folder into it and drop the number “1” from the name. Now XDCAM Transfer will see the folder and all its contents.
Post back if you’re still having problems.
– Don
Don Greening
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Although you may already be aware, make sure the BPAV folder you’re trying to access with XDCAM Transfer is inside another folder with a unique filename (you can choose the name) and that the “BPAV” name is not altered in any way. In addition, the contents of the BPAV folder should also not be altered in any way. If these recommendations are not strictly followed XDCAM Transfer WILL NOT SEE the BPAV folder. When you choose “ADD” in the lower left corner of the XDCAM Transfer window all you need to do is choose your unique folder name and the program will automatically see the BPAV folder inside and show all the clips in the XDCAM Transfer window without you needing to do anything else.
I hope this helps.
– Don
Don Greening
A Vancouver Video Production Company
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I’m not an F3 owner (although I’d like to be) but I can point you to a lot of reading material that addresses the topic(s) you’re inquiring about. Go to Alister Chapman’s site at the link below and you’ll most likely find what you’re looking for.
– Don
https://www.xdcam-user.com/page/2/?s=F3+S-Log
Don Greening
A Vancouver Video Production Company
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I’m not a Premiere user so I can’t say for certain. All I can suggest is that you do a test. Duplicate one of the .mp4 files and try importing that into your NLE. If I had to guess I’d say you probably can import and edit the native .mp4 files.
– Don
Don Greening
A Vancouver Video Production Company
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Just FYI, never alter or delete the contents of a BPAV folder in any way, otherwise in the future, programs that are able to read and import the clips will not be able to do so. If you need to retrieve the .mp4 EX files, make duplicate copies of the BPAV folders first, then use the duplicates to get the .mp4 clips separated from the parent folders. By keeping the unaltered BPAV folders somewhere you’re essentially future-proofing them.
– Don
Don Greening
A Vancouver Video Production Company
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[Rachel Kodner] “What is HD35 mean?”
I guess that’s Premiere speak for the video file bit rate, which is 35, in this case the highest quality that the EX3 can record. Normally that particular EX codec is referred to as XDCAM EX 35VBR (variable bit rate).
If your client simply needs to view the clips only then you can use VLC app. for this, which is platform agnostic anyway. This way you won’t need to transcode the EX files but simply make copies of the native .mp4 files and send them to him or her.
https://www.videolan.org/vlc/index.html
– Don
Don Greening
A Vancouver Video Production Company
Reeltime Videoworks
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