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Mark Huckle
September 8, 2008 at 4:59 pm in reply to: Focussing on objects in the mid distance

I always film in manual. I think that there has been a problem with the nd filter and focus so I’m sending the camera back under the silver service scheme.
Mark Huckle
August 20, 2008 at 4:23 pm in reply to: Exporting stills in FCP6 16:9

Thanks Don for your advice. I put it into practice and it worked well on one project (filmed in progressive – 720p I think) but didn’t with footage filmed in 1080i. It still threw out 4:3 squeezed shots. Now I am confused. Can you shine any further light on this please Don?
Mark Huckle
August 20, 2008 at 4:22 pm in reply to: Exporting stills in FCP6 16:9

Thanks Don for your advice. I put it into practice and it worked well on one project (filmed in progressive – 720p I think) but didn’t with footage filmed in 1080i. It still threw out 4:3 squeezed shots. Now I am confused. Can you shine any further light on this please Don?
Mark Huckle
August 16, 2008 at 4:54 pm in reply to: Out of hard drive space – what do I delete?

Thanks

I’m using FCP Studio 2. What will happen if I ditch my render files from the HD timeline? Will this affect the copy I made of it to a new SD sequence?
Mark Huckle
August 6, 2008 at 4:57 pm in reply to: Sony XDCAM transfer

Hi Craig

My aim is to be able to delete all files relating to a wedding project on my laptop but to be able to re-access them say in a years time when blue-ray is more widespread and Apple produces a blue ray burner and I can buy blue-ray duplicators. In the old tape days, I could print to tape and make a back-up or I could save my FCP files for a project (audio, video, render files, etc.) to an external hard drive should I so wish. The video files could be easily located and copied from the capture scratch folder.

I want to be able to get all my files relating to the wedding backed up to an external hard drive. Some of my video files that are located in the XDCAM transfer file won’t copy to external hard drive. I assume that the video files are in XDCAM transfer file as they sure are not in the capture scratch file.

Workflow: filmed with Sony EX1 – transferred SxS cards to laptop via XDCAM transfer – imported files into FCP Studio 2 – edited in HD – downconverted to SD – outputted as SD onto DVStudio Pro 4 for authorisation and creation of DVD.

I’m not using blue ray yet. I just want to be able to gain access to all my files for the wedding project in a year or twos time from my external hard drive. At the moment when I use the external hard drive and seek to reconnect, there are media missing that currently cannot be reconnected.

I’m not sure what else I can add.
Mark Huckle
August 6, 2008 at 1:52 pm in reply to: Sony XDCAM transfer

Hi Craig

Thanks for your reply. I’m using the latest versions of FCP Studio 2 and the latest version of XDCAM transfer for my Sony SXS cards (Camera is EX1). There appears to be no rhyme or reason why I can save to external hard drives two of the cards in XDCAM transfer and why the other two come up with the “error O” pop up box. I’ve Googled and have found a similar request, but none has come up with a solution yet!