[John Woods]

Thanks Bill. Somehow I am not surprised by your answer. The Sonnet tech support offered little for a user of Hoodman SxS adapter cards. Good news is that I found a PC laptop with an express card reader. So problem solved.

John

John Woods
WOODS Productions
Clifton Park, NY, USA

[John Woods]

update: Just got rid of the old SxS drivers and now at least can mount the SDHC cards with a USB reader and also import the files into FCP X. Still the Sonnet thunderbolt reader only works with my Sony SxS card and not with the Hoodman adapted SDHC cards. Not sure that the Hoodman cards mechanically mount correctly in the Sonnet unit.

John Woods
WOODS Productions
Clifton Park, NY, USA

[John Woods]

Thanks Ian. I think it best for me to stay at version 1.04 then and limit myself to 16 GB SDHC cards.

When I transfer card data to my Mac laptop, should I use the XDCAM browser or the Log&Transfer from FCP? It seems to me that the browser runs faster, but on the other hand, the Log&Transfer converts the BPAV folder over to accessible .mov files.

Best,
John

John Woods
WOODS Productions
Clifton Park, NY, USA

[John Woods]

Ian:

I have firmware version 1.04 and with 32 MB SDHC cards my EX3 wont record all the way through, stoping around 60 minutes. If I send it in to Sony for firmware upgrade, how long will it take and what are the charges?

Thanks, John Woods

John Woods
WOODS Productions
Clifton Park, NY, USA

[John Woods]

Thanks Craig.

John

John Woods
WOODS Productions
Clifton Park, NY, USA

[John Woods]

Sorry for my mistake, I have a MacBook Pro. So the problem is that the MPEG 2 is in a MP4 wrapper? I notice that Clip Browser can export in various formats. Which would be the friendliest to FCP, i.e. require the least rendering?

Thanks,
John

John Woods
WOODS Productions
Clifton Park, NY, USA

[John Woods]

Akbar, can you say what happens when you don’t wait?

John Woods
WOODS Productions
Clifton Park, NY, USA

[John Woods]

I have a similar problem when exporting 720×480 interlaced using Compressor. What Compressor 2 generates, with setting standard NTSC 4:3, is an MPEG2 movie that QuickTime describes as 640×480.

From some of this thread, I get the idea that this MPEG2 movie is really 720×480, and it is just that QuickTime seems to say otherwise, referring to its own display on the computer screen rather than to the movie file itself. But other parts of the thread lead me to believe that the created movie file really is 640×480, and that I need to use a special setting in Compressor to generate a real 720×480 movie. Can someone clarify this?

Thanks,
John

John Woods
WOODS Productions
Clifton Park, NY, USA

[John Woods]

Thanks, Rafael:

So, I just put the PAL DVD in my superdrive and then open the VIDEO_TS file with MPEG Streamconvert. I guess the only things that could go wrong then are problems with the region code on the DVD or some copy protection issue. A library in Wales, UK will send me the DVD for incorporation into my production so I presume (hope) that neither of these would be a problem.

Best,
John

John Woods
WOODS Productions
Clifton Park, NY, USA

[John Woods]

Thanks Peterd. I will look into MPEG streamclip.

John Woods
WOODS Productions
Clifton Park, NY, USA