[Mark Thompson]

glad that all worked out.

I just noticed the X160 does not support UDF anyway, so forget the driver unless you have other PMW cameras.

[Mark Thompson]

Hi Michael,

You didn’t say if this is first card you tried to read on this mac ?

Do you have the card formatted as UDF? Did you know about the UDF driver for mac?
https://www.sonycreativesoftware.com/sxsudfdriver

In theory, at least, Sony can recover data on an SxS card. It is probably not cheap but worth a try if nothing else you have tried will work.

good luck
mark

[Mark Thompson]

Hi,
did you have any luck sorting this out?

I suppose it all depends on how “underexposed” it was. The quick test on PPro are the controls on the lumetri color panel. You could bring up the exposure and see if you can recover enough. Also did you know how to find the Sony LUTs ? it may look better after viewed when viewed afterwards.

Also this may not be the best forum for this sort of question. There is a Premiere Pro forum on Creative Cow, and naturally Adobe have one as well. Also the best FS7 forum is the Sony community forum for the FS7: https://community.sony.com/t5/FS7/bd-p/FS7

If you post a short clip on dropbox or similar I will have a look and see if I can recover anything.

[Mark Thompson]

Hi,
have you looked at Sony Catalyst Browse ? I think it is a sort of descendent to XDCAM Transfer and it has some transcode options built in.

I’m not sure Media Encoder is such a bad option. It supports a drop folder and it will just go transcode everything you put in it. I sometimes forget I’ve set this up, go get a cup of coffee and find it has transcoded everything.

Another option might be Prelude. You have a license for this with Adobe CC . I’ve not used it much but it is worth looking at some intro level videos to see what it would do for you.

Also that is not just an annoying XML file, it is your metadata. It should allow you do a better edit/color correct. There is that old expression “don’t throw out the baby with the bathwater” 🙂

[Mark Thompson]

Duke,
have you looked at the various “Day for night” tutorials?

unless you have a good low light camera, that might be a way to investigate at least.

[Mark Thompson]

Oliver,
I don’t have that camera, however: The XQD cards for my camera are supplied with a reader! the Sony XQD USB Adapter for G Series – are yours not the same?

Also the camera has a USB connection (or two). In the manual, page 8, look at items 16 and 17. 16 is a USB connector (mini-B type) and I bet the supplied USB cable fits in to that. 17 is a USB connector (A type)
(To be supported by future upgrade.). So perhaps the upgrade to support the A type is already out there? (I haven’t checked.)

You may need to download and install a driver but I’m not sure.

mark

[Mark Thompson]

Hi,
I’m using the same MacBook pro and OS. I had some problems with my SxS-1 cards and SBAC-US20 reader. I format the cards as UDF.

I installed this driver from Sony: https://www.sonycreativesoftware.com/download/sxsudfdriver
and everything worked just fine afterwards.
The other difference is that I use Catalyst Browser to look at the files.

That combination works fine for me.

[Mark Thompson]

Hi,
as already mentioned, Blackmagic Fusion 8 is a very good application. All the spare hours I have for learning are directed there at the moment. I’m paying for AE as well. I find it offers a good “return” for the effort invested in learning it. On the other hand Blender seems to require a lot of investment of your time before you can get results (but results are fantastic when you can master it).

AE provides Cinema 4d Lite and seems to advise using that for 3d mograph. You can get that without AE and the subscription fees. Also a hefty learning curve.

Although Fusion and Cinema4d are 3d apps – if you don’t play with the z-axis then they make pretty good 2d apps.

mark

[Mark Thompson]

update to my own reply!

my first test clip was pretty high bandwidth (Sony MPEG4 422 225 Mbit) Audio Linear PCM 16 bit. I rebuilt the single clip project from scratch and it still exhibited the same problem. A stereo project. It was rendered on DaVinci resolve 12.5.

On another project I’m working on the clips are Sony MPEG2 422 50 Mbit. This project plays the audio as I would expect. It has 8 channels. This is my priority at the moment.

It looks like the high bandwidth of the source causes resource contention.

[Mark Thompson]

I have a small one clip project and the sound keeps coming and going, i.e. stops and starts.
The audio on the clip is fine, it was fine in the previous release of PPro. The audio is fine in audition. Audio is fine after render.

It feels like this release was built to a date [project manager syndrome] and they omitted to regression test before release.