Don Greening
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I believe I’m in the same camp as Noah Kadner: use the EX camera for the majority of your shoot and save the Canon 5D (or other good DSLR) for the beauty shots. I have a fellow videographer friend who has this exact workflow and edits in FCP. His work really stands out from the crowd.
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Anna you could try posting your query in the Sony F900 and PDW (XDCAM HD) Series Forum. Here we’re just about the Sony EX series cameras that use flash card-based media.
https://forums.creativecow.net/sonyF900
– Don
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We’ll try and clarify here what you’re working with:
- XDCAM HD uses XDCAM discs yet you refer to a “card” that has the media on it.
- XDCAM EX uses SxS Pro memory cards and various 3rd party SDHC cards with an adapter.
What type of media are you pulling your clips from?
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Chris, as Craig has pointed out, your Mac can read from and write to an NTFS formatted hard drive if you have the software to do it. The program that Craig mentioned is the one I use and it works flawlessly. The program does not, however, format a hard drive in NTFS, so you’ll need a Windows machine to do that one time.
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[Chris Babbitt] “You’re up late on a Sunday, Don.”
I’m always up late, plus we’re in the same time zone.
[Chris Babbitt] “Does the file size limitation affect reading as well as saving files? “
I’m not sure but if I had to guess, i’d say no. When I’m up against the same situation as yourself I just send the client a Windows formatted NTFS USB hard drive with the BPAV folders on it. I include the price of the drive in the quote. I don’t have any experience in sending hybrid data Blu-ray discs out to clients. I’m thinking that even if you had used my method your friend would still be having issues. I think there’s something going on at his end that you don’t have control over and I don’t think you could have done anything differently.
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[Chris Babbitt] ” Is there some kind of compatibility issue when transferring BPAV folders between platforms?”
There shouldn’t be. As you already know, the disc formatting that can be read by both Mac and Windows is FAT32 but the file size limit is 4 Gbytes, well beyond your largest clip size of 2 Gbytes. I’m not sure what Toast uses when it formats a hybrid data Blu-ray. From what I can tell it looks like you did everything right. Are those 3 clips your client can’t open originally spanned clips between cards? Do any of those big completed clips span more than one Blu-ray disc?
– Don
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There’s probably a Kata bag that would serve your purpose.
https://www.kata-bags.com/index.asp?UP1=OK
– Don
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[Ben Connors] ” I always ask my cameramen to shoot in ‘multi-clip’ mode. This creates a new clip every time the camera is turned on and off instead of on each record.”
There is no such mode on the PMW EX1, EX1R or the EX3, although it would be a handy feature to have.
I’m not sure about the PMW-320 or the 350. Looks like it’s probably an XDCAM HD feature only.– Don
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That’s the word I was looking for. Thanks, Clint.
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I probably should have said “anachronim” (singular) but there’s no spelling for that in the dictionary.
– Don
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