John Lenihan
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Brad,
I say go for it!
I am an electrical engineer and am very comfortable opening up and repairing devices. I bought a shop manual for the NX5U myself. However, since all my cameras are needed virtually all the time, I have not dissembled one because of the risk to my income.
Since yours is an extra one, and you have the manual, then you can take your time doing it. I recommend that you videotape your work and share it with the rest of us.
Regarding your specific question. Based on your symptoms, it sounds like it is going to be a mechanical type issue as opposed to firmware.
Most likely it is going to be caused by the contaminant you talked about or a broken piece of plastic that is supposed to hold a part in place.
Since you have the shop manual, I would do it in the order the shop manual says to dissemble it.
John
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Here is how I do it on my NX5U.
Go in menu
scroll to last item looks like drawers
Top choice says assign button
Select say button 1, then right arrow over to the right column and select the spotlight function, then exit.JOhn
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I agree with Jeff, and will add my observations.
I have had experience with doing what you are doing And, the black magic mixer you are using.
1. The Broadcast standard for television is either 1920 x 1080 x60i OR 1280 x 720 x 60p. It never defined an output for 30p.
The Sony NX5U is set to give you one or the other of those outputs, which at that time seemed to be the most compatible with broadcast TV. And still is, by the way.
You can see that right in the menu of the camera, in the output section, it says vertical 1080i or 720p.
2. The Black Magic is a great little mixer for the price. HOWEVER, everything has to be the same, inputs, and probably outputs too. It is not like the more expensive ones, that can frame convert on in real time.
3. When I had a similar problem, trying to sync the output to a switcher which was also had an input from a computer, I found the following worked.
a. I set up the NX5u for downconvert the output in squeeze mode(4×3)
b. Then we connected the sdi cable to the mixer.
c. We told the mixer the signal was really wide screen aspect ratio, and it made it 16×9.The net result was that the mixer was happy, people could see the live video and the computer, even though it was not full high definition. But I was recording in 1920 x 1080.
I suspect the same thing for you. The streaming world is full of lies. They call high definition to sizes and bit rates which are less than high definition. If you truly tried to send it at full high definition, it would be choppy and blocky to 90% of the recipients.
John
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1. I use the sony avc/mvc codec and choose AVCHD 1920 x 1080 x 60i as the rendering choice when in your situation. Is that what you used?
2. If you use that codec, you can fit about 3.5 hours on a 25 gig bluray and about 5 hours on a 50 gig bluray.
3. When you put the files into the dvd architect project, it will tell you at the bottom if you are over 100 %. If it is over, goofy things happen.
4. Just using the terms 50 gig and 46 gig is a little imprecise, because of the two definitions of a gig, they can be off by 10%.
5. In DVD architect, if set the button on the lower right to 50 gig disk, then tell it to show you in %.
John
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If I were you, I would just shoot it at 30 p everywhere.
In terms of the shutter speed, you could analyse it, but I always end up experimenting. Not all fluorescent is the same I have discovered.
When you get to the unknown location, record something white with 1/30 of a second shutter speed. Then click to faster, faster, faster until you are about 1/250. You will find some shutter speeds will cause a quick flicker effect, some will give you a slow variation between brighter or darker over the period of about 5 seconds. You should be able to see this in your monitor. If not, rewind and review it again.
Then find one that gives you the least amount of problems given that you have enough light to use.
Repeat this everytime you are in a new set of lights, if you can.
Once you get familiar with how the various lights and speeds look in your monitor, you will be able to realize when it is happening to you.
Theory:
Some lights use pulse wave modulation to change intensity, and a slow shutter speed is better.Some types of lights, like mercury vapor, have choppiness at 3 times the power voltage.
And it many cases, you will have a mixture of light types, all doing their own thing.
john
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Here is my advice.
Do the shoot for practice about 10 times and look at the results 10 times before the real deal.
Keep a notebook and try different shots.
1. shallow depth of field. set the aperature manually to wide, try some objects that you can demonstrate depth of field.
2. Try slowing moving the camera handheld so see if you can do that smoothly.
3. Get a subject and try various lighting. Front light, side light, back light. Then try different automatic settings and see how that come out.As you are recording talk to tell yourself what you are doing to the controls so you can later understand the difference in the editor.
As you make various changes, read the manual for that button.
Before the real shoot, you should know every button on the camera, and what it does to the camera.
John
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They look like reasonable cameras, I don’t have one. I have 4 NX5Us and over the last five years they have done a lot of work for me.
This camera looks similar to the NX5U on the outside, so it has that going for it.
John
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Thanks for all your help you guys.
I downloaded a 15 day trial converter and got the client going.
I have multiple computers, so I won’t use the one with the klite codecs until I have time to remove and resinstall the sony software.
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I still don’t understand this codec issue. Is there a codec registration location somewhere in windows, where I can actually see a list of installed codecs? And do all applications have access to all codecs? Is it like fontsJohn Lenihan
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Thanks for the warning.
I tried to just install the needed codec like you suggested, but there was no choices for codecs in the installation process. So I believe it installed all of them. There were choices for add on apps like browser plugins etc, which I unchecked all of.
What did I miss?
John Lenihan
LeniCam Video Productions
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Thanks you guys.
I downloaded a converter and got the job done.
However, I was interested in a more integrated solution, so I downloaded klite codec pack.
That indeed allowed windows media player to play the amr file.
However I was under the impression it would allow soundforge or vegas pro 13 to use the same codec to open the amr file. It did not.
Was my installation incorrect, or was my expectation incorrect?
John
John Lenihan
LeniCam Video Productions
https://www.lenicamvideoproductions.com