John Young
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Just wanted to chime in with this little bit.
I used the SmallHD DP-6 last weekend for the first time. It’s great and it works real well, but it is mostly for framing and focus. Levels and color are still subjective. I know that waveform and vectorscope monitors are much more expensive, but it would have helped me out quite a bit on this last shoot. Just something to think about,since I now know I will have that in my head when making future monitor purchases.
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Conventional wisdom is that SanDisk are the most reliable, and that a minimum for video minimum is the SanDisk Extreme which are 60 MB/s. They also make a Extreme Pro which is 100 MB/s, but I couldn’t tell you if those are overkill or not. I can tell you that I have two 16G and one 8G SanDisk Extreme and have not had any problems with the card.
I would be very hesitant to use generic cards. I have heard some anecdotal horror stories about cheap cards, and it doesn’t sound fun. Remember, your cards ARE your footage. If your cards fails, you have lost everything. Of all the places to skimp I would suggest that the cards are not the place to do it.
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I have had good luck with editing native MP4’s from XD-CAM’s. Unless you are doing FX editing with the files, you shouldn’t have many problems.
As far as importing goes, I simply import the BPAV folder straight from PP, PP will grab the files it can use (the mp4 files) and tell you is does not recognize all the other files (which is fine). -
[Andy jackson] “You dont see most industries having to do this.”
What? I think the correct statement is “You see ALL industries having to do this.” Every business has to change as the landscape changes i.e. “diversify” their business as you say.
Ask the land line telephone industry if they have had “diversify” their business to keep up. Ask the newspaper industry if they have had to “diversify”. Ask the TV repairman if he has had to “diversify”. Ask my grandfather who has run a farm all his life if he has had to “diversify”.
Yes, I think technology is changing faster and faster and therefore industries that rely on technology are changing fast as well. But the fact is that the way that people are consuming content is changing and the way that people are creating content is changing. (As it always has been going back to the the Lumiere Brothers).
I know it can be frustrating at times, and maybe it is because of my personal situation but most of the times it all this changing that makes this industry so exciting to me. I actually would make the argument that the creative industry has never been healthier.
John
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OK, so your source footage for over-cranking is 1280×720 60fps (since you are talking over-cranking with the 7D, I am assuming you are talking 720p 60fps)
Your are matching this with 5D footage which is 1920×1280, but what is frame rate? Remember, you are working with two different resolutions and two different frame rates.
Then what are you settings in your editing in? What is the resolution, frame rate, and field order of your sequence? What program are you editing in?
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No, “this is not par for the course”. Describe your process and maybe we can help you out.
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To try and avoid this problem in the future:
Make sure your camera is update with all the latest firmware. Canon’s latest release was supposed to fix some errors when writing files to certain memory cards. Also, make sure you are using fast class 10, 30 MBps cards.To try and recover your files:
I have had corrupt files on my 7D before and I had to turn to https://www.aeroquartet.com/movierepair/repair.html It does cost money, but depending on your situation it might be worth it. Although I am not sure that this will work for you, since your files are 0 KB. When my 7D files were corrupt they showed the right files size but would not play in quicktime or any other player or NLE. The good thing about this Aeroquartet company is you can download some test software to see if it will work with your files before you pay them anything. -
I use Avid’s DNxHD codec. It’s free and (to me at least) looks very comparable to ProRes.
https://www.avid.com/US/industries/workflow/DNxHD-Codec
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Right click on the program monitor and see what “Playback Resolution” is set to. It might be set to 1/2 or 1/4, which would cause a low resolution preview.
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[eldete productions] “I’m wondering the best codec from RAW in mpeg streamclip “
I don’t know what you mean by RAW. If you are Canon DSLR you are starting out with a H.264 file. If you are on Panasonic you are AVCHD. If you are editing on Premiere Pro CS5 you can edit those natively, otherwise I would transcode the original files to ProRes (or Avid DNxHD if you are on Windows).
[eldete productions] “I know prores is the best but I find it extremely difficult to edit. Most of my work is online based and Ive always used xdcam ex 1080p 24 and editing is easy. “
I am wondering if you are comparing two different things. ProRes is a codec. XDcam is a codec as well but that wouldn’t have anything to do with 1080p 24fps. (A xdcam file could just as well be 720p 50fps) Are you talking about the xdcam codec? or xdcam sequence preset?