[Matthew Romanis]

Connect camera to laptop via 1394 cable, use FCP DV100 capture preset, no machine control.
Each clip captures with 00:00:00:00 time code at the head though, no continuous code.
Matthew.

[Matthew Romanis]

I have had the exact same thing happen before.
In the end we worked it was how we had daisy chained the drives and card reader. The card reader has to be on a separate bus, not daisy chained to an external drive.
Hope this helps.
Matthew.

[Matthew Romanis]

The last thing to do in this process is use P2CMS (or FCP) to open the copied files and make sure they are definitely readable and useable.
USB transfer is quite slow, so make sure allow time for this to happen.
As far as making a BUP copy of the transferred files, you can simply do a drag and drop of the folder though this is doing it in a manner that you are trying to avoid, namely an unverified copy.
I use “Personal Back Up (Intego)” as a software tool for copying large folders, it verifies the contents of the source 1st, copies, then verifies the copy location.

Shotput is terrific for this very reason as it will manage P2 (and many other sources like SxS, SD, SDHC, CF…..even other volumes.) transfer to 3 separate locations at once.

To use P2CMS, direct the source finder to the P2 card you wish to unload, wait for P2CMS to load all the clips. This can take a few moments. When all the clips are loaded, and this is the important bit, select all the clips (if using MAC “command A”), then select File/Export (or “command E:) and follow the prompts to select your export location and verification type. Then initiate.

Matthew.

[Matthew Romanis]

Do you have access to HDSDI monitor? Larger would be better.
It’s worth comparing the the HDSDI output to what is recorded to determine that it’s not something in the Mpeg encoding.
The blooming on your still look’s a bit too sharp edged to be a lens artefact.
Just a suggestion, not a conclusion.
Matthew.

[Matthew Romanis]

is Twixtor still available?

[Matthew Romanis]

Posting a still image would help too.
Has anyone been playing around with the picture profile settings?
I imagine when you are shooting outside you are using the ND sliders? try exposing a shot without them to see if there is anything wrong with them.
Matthew.

[Matthew Romanis]

You didn’t by chance rename the card when you went to transfer the data?
Matthew.

[Matthew Romanis]

I’ve seen this issue on 800’s too, even though Sony claims the transport is the revised one.
I know people who have the 1st series 700’s that have not missed a beat since day 1. They treat their cameras the same way as they treated their Digi beta’s previously, no special “kids gloves” treatment of the media needed.
Like I mentioned earlier, It’s surprising that some of these 50mbps cameras don’t seem as reliable as the earlier 35mbps cameras. I would have thought the transport mechanism would have been very similar.

[Matthew Romanis]

Hi Chris,
We did loose one of the cameras that way, the disk just would not eject and the response from Sony was the same as yours.
I’m quite a “Nanny” when it comes to equipment and the way it is treated, yet when I watched the operator load the camera no alarm bells rang in my head, it was slow, quite gentle, and in no way “slammed” into place as the Sony claims.
After loading, the camera reported a fault so we tried to eject the disk. It would not eject on repeated attempts, and the manual wind did not work either.
On the same job one of the ENG crews camera would jump out of record if the camera was tilted back at a certain angle. The 700’s on the Stedicam and Jib faulted when the camera was inverted whilst rolling several times, and one camera mysteriously recorded nothing to disk, even though you can see it’s tally light and LCD panel in several of the other cameras shots.
All in all the job went well!!!!!
My experience with multiple 700’s, several of them fresh out of the box, didn’t fill me with confidence. My impression is that whilst the images look very good, and the recordings and media in post production is all good, the cameras themselves are not as robust as one might expect. That is odd considering how reliable the 300 series cameras are.
A rental company I deal with regularly say they have never had so many teething problems with a camera before.
Matthew.

[Matthew Romanis]

Came across this a lot recently on a 8 camera multishoot.
Make sure when loading the disk that the camera is horizontally level and not moving. Don’t move the camera until the loading process has totally completed, and the camera is in standby mode.
Not all cameras are equal, I only had this problem consistently with 3 of the 8 cameras, and even then not all the time.
I’ve had several explanations from Sony reps as to what is going on, though I don’t feel that any of them were able to fully explain the problem with any confidence.
Matthew.