[Gary Huff]

[Noam Osband] “I just loaded the same AVCHD card in Log and Transfer in FCP 7, unchecked the pulldown, and the footage still seems to be 29.97.”

If you uncheck the option to remove the pulldown, why would it have been expected to remove the pulldown?

[Gary Huff]

[Beth Cramer] “Ken Rockwell “suspects the 14-24mm may become a future classic that sells for $3,500 a pop used”?”

What are Ken’s past successes in predicting future market value of camera products?

[Gary Huff]

[Paul Escamilla] “Any suggestions of “affordable” video cameras that I might look into for doing two or three camera shoots of bands in low-light situations?”

What about keeping your GH2s and getting a Sigma 18-35 and 50-100 f/1.8 zooms and using a Speedbooster EF->m43?

[Gary Huff]

[Steven Fokkinga] “Basically I’m asking about the relative importance of the CPU and the GPU in FCPX. I have tried to find information about this online, but no luck so far. Thanks in advance!”

The Core i7 supports multithreading, and FCPX does well with the non-GPU MacBook versions, so I would recommend you pick a Core i7 and the 450.

[Gary Huff]

[Chris Wright] “Fieldskit deinterlacer”

I have to second Fieldskit. The only one out of the list I own, and I own but don’t use Frames. Fieldskit has saved my bacon more than once.

[Gary Huff]

[Yiorgos Moustakis] “What is your experience, is there a difference using an utility like the SD formatter application from the SD Association, than just formatting in camera?”

There is zero difference.

Why would you suspect formatting issues? Formatting issues would have made the footage unobtainable. Let’s take a look at your description of the problem:

[Yiorgos Moustakis] “Everything went fine on the shooting, but upon trying to offload the footage to my computer using my Lexar Professional CF/SD reader I came across the same problem for both cameras”

And then what did you do?

[Yiorgos Moustakis] “The way that I found around that, was to put the SD into the camera that was shot with and make the transfer from the camera’s usb.”
You were having problems reading files from the card in your Lexar reader, and then you put your card into a different card reader (i.e. your camera) and then it worked fine. Doesn’t sound like formatting issues to me.

[Gary Huff]

[Bob Woodhead] “And you do have to give props to the thermal design”

The thermal design that keeps burning up the graphics cards?

[Gary Huff]

[Simon Barbarasch] “Ya but I’m asking about software not hardware. Haven’t u heard about the gh2?”

I know exactly about what you are asking, and no, what happened with the GH2 is not going to happen with the EM5.

[Gary Huff]

[Carlo Ferraro] “Image is great and filing as AppleProres does not increase the size of the files that much.”

Apple ProRes uses MotionJPEG as its base, so unless you’re running into compatibility problems with, say, and older version of Final Cut, you shouldn’t have to transcode.

[Gary Huff]

The Olympus EM5 Mark II came out over a year and a half ago. The video quality it produces will remain the same at this point.