[Ed Mellnik]

I have a Pxw-z280 and am not having any problem with grain at all.
and I just updated the firmware to 2.0
One of the things they did mention was that 2.0 was supposed to have less noise…?

So far with the exception of a few design frustrations, I am very happy with the camera.
Have not done much in 4K yet. Still recording in 1920 422 and 420 for good compatibility with
a second camera (EX1R) in editing.

Good Luck to all.
Ed

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Portland Oregon
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[Ed Mellnik]

I was looking at Used EX1R cameras… one had N50 on the bottom with the SS number. ANyone know what N50 means?

EMA VIDEO
Portland Oregon
emellnik@emavideo.com

[Ed Mellnik]

Right now I am still working with EX1 camera which I believe is a mpeg format…. but
even Premiere Pro is not playing back files without looking like 15fps so something is wrong.

but thanks for the reply.
Ed

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Portland Oregon
emellnik@emavideo.com

[Ed Mellnik]

Thanks for the response. Very helpful. Since I need 422 prores it looks like I can
“create quicktime movie” and get my prores as long as I have Prores 422 in the compressor field in sequence settings….. I am hoping. Doing a render over night now.

Ed

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Portland Oregon
emellnik@emavideo.com

[Ed Mellnik]

Here it is 2016. Comparing my Ex1 footage rendered as ProRes422HQ in Premiere Pro and then rendering the same footage in FCP and their is a big difference in quality. The PRoRes rendered in FCP looks much better.

I am miffed.

Ed

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Portland Oregon
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[Ed Mellnik]

Thanks. No one has commented on just a quad core…so
if I am reading this right the amount of ram is more important?

I am seeing 4 8 and 12 core 2009 Mac Pros and of course understand that more is better but wanted to see if I could get by with a single quad core Nehalem processor.

Not editing 4k stuff just 1080hD files.

Ed

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Portland Oregon
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[Ed Mellnik]

I have a simuliar problem.
I have a 14 minute HDV project in FCP Studio 6.
Looks great in HD. when taking it to DVD there are busy barbershop type artifacts on edges and the
CG titles look terrible.
I have tried just about everything. Rendered in Compressor… tried rendering in many different
formats using the export using QT conversion, then bringing into DVDSP to do the encode.
Nothing gets rid of the poor quality images.
With such a great looking HD image there must be a way to get a decent SD DVD.

ANy thoughts would be appreciated.
Ed

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Portland Oregon
emellnik@emavideo.com

[Ed Mellnik]

I have given up on figuring out what is at fault with these.
I started using Extreme HCSD cards and have not had a problem yet
with these… so I am thinking that it is a camera flaw.
I strongly suspect that the camera gets hot and the temperature
effects the write speed… and or corrupts files its writing.

EMA VIDEO
Portland Oregon
emellnik@emavideo.com

[Ed Mellnik]

Yes I have read about this Black problem. I am still on Vegas 8c and DVDA5. Now I am having pretty good luck with short clip tests using ProRes 422 also but did not know I was going to have a problem with
my 47 minute program…
Now what I have been doing is bringing in the prores422 into a Vegas Blu-Ray project and rendering as a 12mbs Mpeg file. Then bringing it into to DVDA. IS that your work flow also?

Ed

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Portland Oregon
emellnik@emavideo.com

[Ed Mellnik]

its hard to believe there isn’t something else out there for authoring blu-ray.
I am will continue to waist time trying to find something that works with Vegas. Ill let you know if I find something.
thanks
ed

EMA VIDEO
Portland Oregon