Justin Gaar
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well, i burned a dvd and it still has the exact same gamma problems that my computer monitor is displaying. what i’m seeing after rendering the real time video does not match what is output and what i see when i render full. this seems like an easy fix, i just have no idea what to change. i understand that the computer monitor isn’t showing me exactly how my footage will appear. i think it has to do with the compressor setting in my sequence. i have hvx footage shot at 720 24p in a timeline set to 960×720 16:9 with DVCPRO HD 720p60 compressor. my video processing is set to always render RGB. if that helps?
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yeah, exporting to quicktime movie with current settings. i’ve tried the fcp compatability and it washed the video out even further. i dont have a monitor, just an imac.
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nevermind. i’m an idiot. the general folder is now open but is limited to the 500mb as stated. now we wait for the firmware update that’s coming this summer.
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So, I’ve updated the PDW-F75 so that it is running the newest firmware update. Which was a complete pain, by the way. We didn’t have a memory stick, so I had to use the network install option. The instructions given by Sony would not work, so we had to get a company IT guy to create a network between the PC and the deck. We were also required to use Internet Explorer, which is another pain since all of our machines are Apple except the production manager’s. Each firmware update was uniform and contained the proper files for network install except the final version 1.96 which was lacking the .pkg file to install through the Internet Explorer based network interface that Sony has created for this completely confusing process. After wasting 35 minutes on the phone with a Sony representative that was, well, rude, he decided that we could possibly copy the .pkg file from the previous update to the newest update and open the install from there. That worked. Now the thing is up to date and when I stick a disc in, it formats it and then appears to open the general folder completely. Appears being the key word. The available space is displayed as the entire disc capacity. I can drag and drop files into the general folder and it begins to write, then finder crashes and the disc unmounts and remounts itself. I get an “error -36”. I’m moving small files over – pictures mostly, which should be able to be written given the allotted 500MB which are supposed to be open in the general folder with this update. So, I’ve gone through all of this and still have no idea why this process doesn’t work.
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i could be wrong, but i believe the largest you can write back to disc, currently, is 1440×1080. It should, however, transcode your EX footage to 1440×1080. But you cannot then go back to 1920×1080 without quality loss. that is what i’ve come to understand from a Sony ICE Team member.
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Ok, so what I’ve deduced is that in the summer the general folder will be opened up by a firmware update on the PDW-F75 allowing any data to be archived to the full disc capacity. Is that correct? Will there still be a required Mac driver or is that specifically for the U1?
Thank you so much for the information, it has really helped to clear this issue up.
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Would the same firmware update not be available for the PDW-F75? And if they open up the general folder wouldn’t I be able to just copy a BPAV folder over instead of worrying about codecs?
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Appreciate the info! I’m really looking for a sound archival method for EX footage. I actually shoot very little with the PDW-F355, not a fan of it really at all, but, I love the EX-1. Hard drives tend to fill up quick when you shoot pretty regularly on an EX-1! Archiving EX footage has become a very large concern and Sony representatives made it seem as if the XDCam disc was a viable option. I’m not willing to lose resolution in the transcode and this $16,000 deck doesn’t really make me want to spend $550 more dollars to do that, so I guess my best option is to wait for the firmware update in April-ish. From what I understand, it will allow for any file to be written to the disc, correct? When that update comes out will it take a while to trickle down to the different devices? Will a Mac update be required as well?
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Is there a tutorial anywhere for archiving in this way? I’ve got a PDW-F75, some XDCams and some EX-1s and would love to use the deck to archive our EX footage and projects. I’ve been unable to find anything other than this pending firmware update and I havent been able to figure out how to archive with our current equipment. So, if there is a tutorial on this process it would be greatly appreciated. I’m starting to feel like it takes a Sony engineer to engineer Sony’s equipment.