[Don Greening]

Your camera has been set to full auto. Slide the switch back to program mode and you’ll be able to access your menu items again. The switch is located on the left side at the back under the AUDIO REC LEVEL switch.

– Don

[Don Greening]

Yep, Shane’s way is the way I do it and it works great. Especially the workflow for CC and pasting the attributes onto the other same camera clips. When it’s time to render make sure you’ve collapsed all multicilps first, otherwise the render times take longer.

Shane’s way is also more……..sportsmanlike 🙂

– Don

[Don Greening]

The EX series cameras are currently the most light sensitive in the hand-held category regardless of price. The advantage of shooting with CMOS over CCD is that there will be no vertical smear from light sources (such as a candle, etc). However, the CMOS cameras are a little more apt to show power fluctuations with house lighting than CCD cameras do. The EX cameras have various settings to deal with this

– Don

[Don Greening]

[Roger Lee] “Or does the camera only gather each clip separately?”

Only separately. There is no in-camera function that allows combining all clips into one continuous clip.

[Roger Lee] “Which means I would have to combine in post? “

Correct.

[Roger Lee] “Is there a workflow for this?”

You can also edit your piece with your NLE then write the finished project back to the camera provided it’s still in one of the EX native codecs.

– Don

[Don Greening]

Here is the path on your hard drive:

Macintosh HD>Users>”yourname”>Library>Preferences

• >com.apple.quicktime.plugin.preferences.plist
• >com.apple.quicktimeplayer.plist

Drag both preference files to the trash but don’t empty the trash……..yet. New preference files will be created the next time QT Player is started. Start QT Player and see if your XDCAM EX files will now play properly. If they do then you can empty the trash bin.

– Don

[Don Greening]

[Richard Cooper] “how do they match up (cut together)?”

I’ve seen EX and F900 footage intercut for a street scene at night and I was hard pressed to tell the difference.

[Richard Cooper] “I have the EX1 and love the cam but have noticed some things (like image going soft when slow panning) that I am not happy with and I am considering upgrading my camera setup. “

Turn off the detail setting on the EX and you should see a significant improvement in your soft image. Then turn the detail setting back on but severely limit the effect to the point that it’s as good as turned off. The detail setting should actually be left on because, unlike some of the other high end Sony cameras, turning off detail on the EX cameras also turns off other settings as well. More info on that can be found here:

https://forums.creativecow.net/readpost/142/862796

– Don

[Don Greening]

[Jim Watt] “In most cases the file is broken into 2 clips, but once in awhile there is a third clip in the file.”

Keep in mind that solid state media is formatted in FAT32 binary which has a file size limit of 4 Gbytes. This may be why you’re seeing single clips split into pieces to conform to the card formatting. One of the reasons why programs like Sony’s Clip Browser and Transfer Tool exist is to consolidate clips so you can view and edit them just the way they were recorded. If you haven’t noticed these split clips in the past the reason might be that your previous clips never reached the 4 Gbyte size limit.

[Jim Watt] “I’m also seeing some breakup in the EX-3 in the monitor, but not in the files.”

At least you know that the clips are being recorded properly even though you’re seeing problems with the monitoring. I haven’t worked with the Panny 17″ so I can’t offer any suggestions. Is the picture breakup occurring with both the EX1 and the Varicam?

– Don

[Don Greening]

[Neal Petrosky] “Does this mean it shoots up to 60 fps?”

No. It means that it shoots 30 frames a second but with 2 interlaced fields per frame. In other words, just regular interlaced video.

24F – 24 complete frames a second
30F – 30 complete frames a second
60i – 30 interlaced frames a second

Canon’s frame mode is essentially their version of everyone else’s progressive mode. In order to shoot 60 progressive frames per second you’ll need a camera that lists “60p” as one of their shooting modes.

– Don

[Don Greening]

There’s a recent thread on this topic concerning the less than stellar performance of the EX1’s auto tracing white balance feature. The EX3 shares the same technology:

https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/142/864918

– Don

[Don Greening]

Usually if I want to change a property on several video clips, such as applying a colour correction I follow this work path:

• Change one of the clips the way you want.
• Copy the clip to the clipboard “Cmd-C” without the quotes.
• Deselect that clip and Cmd-select all other clips you want to affect the changes to.
• Paste the first clip’s attributes to all the others by hitting “Option-V”.
• A dialogue box will appear. Put a checkmark in the boxes you want copied to the other clips.
• Click OK.

If all your pictures have the same common name you may be able to use the Find command within FCP to select all the pictures at once instead of having to Cmd-select them all one by one.

– Don