Erik Cantu
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I posted this video on myself enabling the frame guides on my BMCC.
Make sure you are running current firmware, or at least v2.1 and up. Firmware must be downloaded from blackmagic with each new build.
Erik Cantu
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In the display menu setting (where you adjust zebra bars and LCD brightness), select which frame guide you would like to use, and then in the main menu area (where you can format disk and enter metadata) make sure Frame Guides is enabled-lit up.
Simply enabling frame guides won’t do anything as the default frame guide to show is nothing. You must select the formatting deeper in the menu. This way you can have the guide you like, but also switch it on and off quickly.
Erik Cantu
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RadioU TV & Animal Basement
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I’m sorry, but it only sounds like the firmware running on the camera is wrong and the most current version of the blackmagic camera utility needs to be installed on your computer, rebooted and then update the camera via USB connected between them.
Erik Cantu
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The only menu setting to change the recording format on the BMCC is settings/recording/record format and there is cycles through the different formats: RAW, DNxHD and all the ProRes formats.
What firmware version are you running?
Erik Cantu
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Well that makes sense. I do use only Sandisk SSD’s in my BMCC that I’ve never had a problem. The panny cards do have high spec’s but I guess something under the hood doesn’t play with the BMPCC.
THankfully it’s not an expensive fix.Erik Cantu
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RadioU TV & Animal Basement
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Yes, running the most current camera update, Blackmagic Camera 2.6, is what I would recommend. The last 3 updates haven’t addressed anything with the cinema cameras, the updated app is a global platform to update all their camera models.
Erik Cantu
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RadioU TV & Animal Basement
14 years experience as a fulltime broadcast shooter, editor & broadcast designer. -
Their firmware updates are here:
https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/support/family/professional-cameras
The column on the left, “Latest Downloads,” has newest camera update on top and if need be, older builds.
Erik Cantu
Video Producer
RadioU TV & Animal Basement
14 years experience as a fulltime broadcast shooter, editor & broadcast designer. -
Very odd. Sounds like a bandwith issue, but you were recording at the lowest setting to one of the fastest cards out there.
Were the cards freshly formatted in camera?
Erik Cantu
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RadioU TV & Animal Basement
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Thanks for sharing the solution. This problem has been driving me crazy for months!
I wonder why is creates such a problem, as it is a function that the software is supposed to be able to do and my system is quite powerful.
Erik Cantu
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RadioU TV & Animal Basement
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I don’t know the weight of your “fully rigged” set up for a recommendation for your needs. My advice would be to get the weight of your set up and then look which tripod heads support that weight.
For my BMCC set up I have a Manfrotto 504HD head and an Induro 8M alloy tripod.Erik Cantu
Video Producer
RadioU TV & Animal Basement
14 years experience as a fulltime broadcast shooter, editor & broadcast designer.