John Lenihan
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I have seen this too.
I had seen it last July, then documented it fully to Sony tech Support in August.
From September through November they were in contact with me, and succeeded in duplicating the issue. Then they went silent.
So I started hounding Sony Vegas software folks, who investigated and said it was a camera issue.Since no firmware updates have occurred, I suggest pestering them. I will start again. The following are the specific characteristics so that you can know where the pot holes are at:
1. If you record in HD, you get about 12 minutes per file. The camera closes the file and starts a new one. Unfortunately it drops x amount of frames closing and opening the new file. It drops the video and the audio. If you are syncing two cameras video, it will drive you nuts. If you are syncing a camera’s audio and an independent audio, it will drive you nuts.
2. More details. MOST of the time it seems to drop two frames every 12 minutes. Thus 30 minutes it would drop 4 frames.
3. If you have a 3 hour dance recital with some audio on the camera and some recorded separately, you have to resync every 12 minutes.
4. It is terrible, but the worst is yet to come. I have been shooting a lot of multicam. And about 5 % of the time, it is only 1 frame dropped. about 1 % of the time it has been 4 SECONDS dropped, that is 120 frames!!!!
5. I have just completed a three hour test of two cameras recording a watch onto the fmu and the sd cards. There is no difference between cameras, nor between a given camera’s sd and fmu.
I am trying to figure out how to get 3 hours of video onto something small enough to show Sony and you folks.
John Lenihan
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Joseph,
Chances are that it is still true, but may change.
Each broadcast property has their own set of minimum camera that they will accept. Discovery Channel is one is often used as a standard. BBC is another.
It took a year or two after the Sony EX 1 and 3 were in the market before the made the list for Discovery channel.
Television decided about 10 years ago to standardize on the mpeg compression format, when that was the only game in town. I don’t think they would accept avchd format for a long time for prime time.
However, you could obviously render your output to mpeg format and they would be happy. Plus Blu-ray players play mpeg or avc. And you could obviously record from the HDSDI port to an external recorder direct to mpeg. I suspect that there is more than just the avchd format that would keep them out of the acceptable cameras.
But the nxcam doesn’t record in as high of bit rate as the Sony ex families. The lens is not all that expensive. To be safe, you should contact the possible broadcast channels you will be trying to sell this to and find out if nxcam is on their list yet. Or buy something already on the list like the Sony EX family.
If you have compelling content, recorded and edited in broadcast quality manor, you could find channels that would accept it. Just look at the nightly television where they broadcast utube videos that were taken from cellphones.
John Lenihan
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LeniCam Video Productions
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Greg,
In November 2010 Sony announced an NXcam family camera with availability mid 2011.It is supposed to have a 35 mm image sensor, and interchangeable lens. It goes by the name nxcam 35. It is on Sonys web site.
John Lenihan
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Greg,
The NX5U is a great camera for wedding and event videography.
If you are serious about the videography side of your business, it is the minimum you want to get. If you want to compare the differences, just rent it for a weekend and use it on a gig or play with it and do your own comparison.
Compared to a consumer camera, it is night and day. Based on the glass, you will get sharper images and lower light. Most importantly, you can do things manually, like adjust for backlight, reflections, focus and things.
Compared to the dslr, you will get the audio, ease of controls, and better zoom ratio. 20 to 1 zoom. In general dslr’s do a better job of allowing you to have a shallow depth of field, you will loose that. But for a wedding, having the better zoom ratio far outweighs the depth of field. You can’t move around the church like you do as a still photographer. You have to plan your position, move very little, and zoom across the church. And when you zoom, you need better low light since zooming throws light away.
John Lenihan
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LeniCam Video Productions
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Melissa,
1. I have stopped using the Sony Content Management Utility after spending way too much time with Sony software and hardware departments all blaming one another. It is a childishly written, buggy, unsupported junk software. And the Sony product manager even acknowledges it .
2. I am using a PC, I just navigate onto the storage device and copy over the files onto my pc and start editing on Vegas Pro.
3. I realize there is another step for final cut pro users, and a minimum final cut pro version that will work.
4. Perhaps one of the others can assist.
John Lenihan
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LeniCam Video Productions
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What editor are you using. This sounds like an editor question.
The NX5U only records in two channels, aka stereo, so the term mix down to stereo isn’t quite clear.
I am using Sony Vegas Pro, so I can help if that is what you are using to edit.
There are other folks on this forum using other editors to assist.
John Lenihan
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Others on this forum who are familiar with fcp have talked about a certain setting to convert the sd footage to be conformed properly in FCP. If you can get the raw SD footage again, you may try converting it differently before editing.
JOhn
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go to this ftp site with filezilla or equivalent:
002bb65.netsolhost.com
username: lenicamguest
password: December2upload your file and let me know when it is there.
John
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LeniCam Video Productions
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Eric,
I have one lcd monitor, 1900 x 1200 connected via analog connections to my computer. I preview on that same monitor that I edit.
I don’t have a mac or fcp or imac, so I cannot help troubleshoot those types of issues for you.
When you record some ACVHD footage and render and create a DVD, is the problem still there?
If you want to ftp one of your mpeg files as it comes off the camera, I will render it into a dvd iso format and send it back to you, and verify that Vegas handles it ok. That would elimate any camera settings as the issue. Let me know if you want to do that and I will send you my
John Lenihan
LeniCam Video Productions
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I have recorded many times using the 720 x 480 x 60 i setting on the nxcam.
I edit with Vegas Pro 10, and create DVDs with Vegas DVD Architect.
I have had no flickering, jittery, or problems like you describe.
John Lenihan
John Lenihan
LeniCam Video Productions
https://www.lenicam.com