[John Hennessy]

We’ve shot lots of live events & concerts with our EX1 where LED lighting has been a big issue. We’ve found in many situations red LEDs turn out orange/yellowish on the footage, regardless of W/B, gamma, anything. We’ve had the same result with DSLRs too. Other colours we’ve found to be less problematic. And flicker, dear oh dear the flicker. No amount of shutter adjustments make a blind bit of difference.

And by the way, has anyone else found that working under purple LEDs for a while, then walking outside; everything looks weird & green to your eyes? It really screws up your color perception for a while!

[John Hennessy]

Well this looks like it’s not that rare an anomaly. We’ve had out EX1 for a few years now, and once or twice noticed a few shots having duplicate names. We’re working on a doc at the minute that has a lot of shooting spread over a few days and it’s become apparent that this duplicate naming happens more frequently than we thought; in fact it’s happening every couple of cards or so.

It didn’t stand out so much because we usually ‘copy’ clips in the XDCAM Clip Browser, in this case the browser steps in and renames the duplicated names adding a (1) at the end. However if we choose to ‘cut’/move the clips onto the HDD, the browser doesn’t rename & tells us the clip already exists. The simple workaround seems to let the Clip Browser rename it during the move, but this is certainly something we need to sort out long term, and could prove very troublesome.

In answer to other speculation, it doesn’t require a battery to die to happen, and we’ve even tried reformatting the various cards every time we use a fresh one and it hasn’t made a difference. and it doesn’t just happen when the clips span cards, in fact we don’t even need a second card in for it to happen. While we can’t reproduce the effect en cue, it’s definitely happening a few times a day for us.

Anyone have any insight?