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Fritz Faerber
July 11, 2014 at 12:56 pm in reply to: PMW EX3 Focus issue – doesn’t match previous forum threads

Sadly, I had a similar repair. I forget which circuit boards they replaced. The total cost was a bit more than $3,000.
It’s been two years. Occasionally, I have a similar problem. It starts to appear when the camera is hot (after shooting for a while in hot weather). I have had luck by immediately shutting down and letting the camera cool off a bit.
I am hoping my EX3 can hold out a couple more months until I buy a new camera.
BTW, American Express picked up most of the cost of the repair. They double the warranty (up to an extra year). I slid in just under the wire on that.
I wish I had electronics skills to take it apart and figure out why we have this problem.
Fritz Faerber
September 23, 2012 at 1:48 pm in reply to: PMW EX3 Focus issue – doesn’t match previous forum threads

Yep,

Packing up in a Pelican and shipping to Sony. Arrrgh. I don’t like being without a camera. I don’t find the 7D to be a satisfactory backup for news.

Maybe I can use this as an excuse with the spouse to buy another camera….
Fritz Faerber
October 17, 2011 at 8:36 pm in reply to: Final Cut Studio 2 and Lion

I just installed Final Cut Studio on a new Mac Mini using Lion.
Just install Rosetta on the Lion system from a Snow Leopard (or perhaps other) OS install disk.
Then do the normal install process for FCS 2. I have only messed about briefly with some XDCAM footage in Final Cut on the mini, but all seemed normal.
Please, if you are going to lambaste me for the insanity of running Final Cut on a Mini, save it. This is an experiment, it won’t be my main editing machine. Just wanted to see if it works.
Fritz Faerber
May 7, 2011 at 2:16 am in reply to: fcp crashes frequently

Hi,

This may not help at all. But I had a vexing spell of Final Cut crashes for a month or so. Couldn’t figure out what the heck was going on and trashed preferences several times and went through disk permissions and all kinds of other likely suspects.

Then I happened to notice one time it crashed that my Time Machine was doing an automatic backup. I shut off time machine backup and worked for a few hours with no crashing. Turned it back on and got crashes.

Hope your issue is as simple as that.
Fritz Faerber
May 7, 2011 at 2:10 am in reply to: Canon 5d in FCP – Need PAL and NTSC finished versions

Any chance one of your clients has hardware to convert? If one of them routinely has to deal with both NTSC and PAL, they may be able to handle it.

I’ve been struggling with the conversion issues and have found the trickiest bits are with camera movement – pans, tilts and the like. If I’m cutting together file video to sell to both PAL and NTSC outlets, I basically create a file that has little to no camera movement.

If you find a software solution that actually yields great results, PLEASE share the workflow.
Fritz Faerber
May 6, 2011 at 10:24 pm in reply to: Final Cut and Macbook Air

Thanks Rafael for the input.

I’m wondering if anyone has TRIED running Final Cut on an air. I’m not saying it can be done.

I am hoping Apple will marry the light weight of the air to FC at some point. I see you can have express preinstalled on the air… so it led me to wonder if Final Cut pro would work.

Any reduction of gear weight may help me dodge back surgery number three.
Fritz Faerber
May 6, 2011 at 8:55 pm in reply to: Final Cut and Macbook Air

Yes. I do know better. My intention would be to ingest video onto internal drive, edit quickly n the field and offload media to external drive for archiving when I return to my desktop.
I am not Planning on making this my main editing computer. But, when I need to hike out into middle of nowhere, shoot video of destruction and quickly file, I would like to carry less gear and go as bare bones as Possible.

Thanks for any thoughts.
Fritz Faerber
May 6, 2011 at 8:33 pm in reply to: Final Cut and Macbook Air

Add-on (or hijack) to the original question:

I am a videojournalist. I operate solo and have to carry a TON of gear. I am considering the 13″ macbook air with 2.13 GHz dual core.

Here’s the issue. The weight and bulk of my laptop (2008 year MBPro 2.5 Ghz Core 2 duo) and PMW-EX3, sticks, lights and various other gear really makes travel tough. Every pound counts.

I use FCP but am not making feature films or highly produced work. I do some color correction and other adjustments that require rendering and then compress the final edit for filing via FTP.

The stories max out at around 5 minutes in length.

Will a macbook air suffice? I know it isn’t optimal, but in the field, lightweight and small is better.

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