Hi Anthony,
It would seem that all my contacts from 5 years ago are no longer there. I found 1 press contact, but I got an auto reply that she was out of the office until Monday. Hopefully she can point us in the right direction.

When I did the review, I believe they sent the SSD caddy with the SSD already in it, so I don’t remember if I…

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Hi Anthony,

I did a full review of the camera about 5 years ago when I was at Streaming Media Magazine. I did have some issues during the review. I did have at least one failure on a shoot, and I think another on a test. This was with the JVC supplied SSD. A JVC tech had to help me do a full factory reset of the camera. What is the rating of…

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I have a bunch of Beta SP machines including the UVW-1800 and BVW-75, and never had that problem. What happens when you put it into remote mode? If it goes back to normal, then you may have a short somewhere, possibly the control panel. The ribbon cables can wear out from opening and closing the panel. Where are you located?

Hi Steve,

There are a lot of variables when using old cameras and old software. I would try putting it into another more recent editing program to see if it opens properly. Sometimes when using older software, when the PC updates the OS, things get broken. You can download Blackmagic Design’s Resolve for free, or a Premiere Pro free trial.…

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In “cinema mode” you may need to add LUTs to the footage in post. I had a friend get in some footage from a Sony camera he never worked with before. He had me take a look and I said, “this is raw, and we need to add LUTs.” Premiere pro has them in the effects pallet. Find the camera that best matches yours.

If you don’t want to deal with…

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I haven’t used either camera, but generally it comes down to what you want to shoot, and how much room you have on the P2 cards for it. For a cinematic look many used the 1080 24p setting. For fast action, some used 1080i 60/50 Hz. Others used 720 60p/50p and some upscale the final up to 1080p in post. What are you shooting?

You Have a lot going on there Patrick! What are you trying to accomplish by going standard def, composite out to an HD switcher? By using an HD capable camera, going out SD using an analog composite / S-Video to HDMI converter, to an HD switcher, you introduce a lot of possible signal issues.

I only used this camera once 15 years ago. I do have a…

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You have the gain set to whatever you have “M” set for. Gain can do funny things to the picture, if you don’t need it. What is your white balance for “A” set to?

If you want to post the pics, I’ll look. I never used that camera though. I have used the XF405, XF705, XF605, XC10, XA15, XA40, and XA50, but they were all from a different generation of cameras. I believe your XF300 is MPEG-2 based files, and the ones I use are MP4, using different color science and compression.

Hi Kacey,
The XF300 Is a pretty old camera, about 15 years old. I would suggest that you go in to the set up menu and see if the previous owner played with the camera’s image. Some owners tweak the color matrix and how it reacts for certain scenes. I believe there are some youtube videos about this.

Marc

I haven’t played with imovie in about 20 years, but I know it wasn’t meant for things like Metadata. I recently used Premiere Pro’s metadata window to confirm when something important took place. I believe it had the time and date it was shot, and the camera settings. I would try that.

As far as batch renaming, I don’t know of anything…

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I started doing “Vintage Tech Talks” about mostly VCRs and audio tape decks that I use in my tape to digital transfer service. I hope you find these videos useful. This is one about the 3/4″ Umatic VO-9850 / 9800 decks that I have been using:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9BI0z7meUQ&list=PLUwQ0114tdOvAWLGMMGfD0Ls_RAGx4G4x

Try emailing Neil Matsumoto, he is one of their camera reps. If he can’t help you, he should be able to get you to the person that can. neil.matsumoto@us.panasonic.com

I don’t have the same camera or lens, so I can’t give you a direct answer, but I would try calling a Panasonic authorized dealer or official support center. Many times they have someone who can work with you over the phone. This has helped me in the past.

Does the tape have breaks in the timecode? That can throw it off. You can also get an inexpensive SDI card and capture it as pro res. I haven’t used FCP in a long time, so I don’t know if that would work. I capture a lot from the SDI on My DSR-2000 through a Blackmagic Design H264 Pro Recorder and and the BMD capture app that works with their…

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Amazon has them.

Find a TBC. The difference is night and day. Most digitizers won’t work properly without a TBC before it. If you can’t find a stand alone TBC, depending where you are you may be able to find a cheap Betacam SP recorder that will allow you to pass the video signal through its built in TBC. I have done this before with Betacam SP recorders and…

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What deck are you using? Are you using a TBC? What quality are you looking for?