[Michael O’reilly]

It is April 2014 and that list is 3 years old !

Where is the updated info ? Are there additional 64 GB cards that are certified instead of just that one ? Or a 128GB card ?

Can’t get a straight answer – the facility at which I am using the KiPro mini is using a Lexar 64 GB, despite Aja’s direct admonition not to use the 32GB version – was there a notice that the 64GB version was OK ? I am trying to use the 128GB version and am having problems that I have never seen before.

Please help !

Michael

[Michael O’reilly]

FCP 6.0.6 and XDCAM should play very nicely together – I do it everyday.

I have not seen your problem, but know with FCP it is actually difficult to access the lowres proxies (the AVID apparently treats it the other way around).

I’d imagine yer problem is in the preferences for the XDCAM transfer stuff – I don’t have that in front of me on the weekend but if you can wait until monday, can comment on it authoritatively.

Michael

[Michael O’reilly]

Thanks Paul !

Just the reason to upgrade to FCP 7 – now if only the bosses will spring for it. AFAICT, there does not seem to be analogous chapters in the FCP 6 manual.

I figured some stuff out for myself but I still have questions. I did not encounter the aforementioned pop-up where I would choose any settings or destinations, but at least I know that FCP 7 addresses it more effectively.

Michael

[Michael O’reilly]

answered my own question – it is all in batch monitor !

I have always ignored this app and have been working with FCP for like 10 years now – I had an AE mindset and just figured that all of the info in the batch monitor would be in Compressor in the History window.

you learn something new everyday.

[Michael O’reilly]

thanks for such a speedy response – I did not know that the ProRes and XDCAM HD codec were interchangeable like that. I switched it and it rendered in less than a minute. Great !

Thanks a lot.

Michael

[Michael O’reilly]

Interesting. Thanks for that post Don. That may very well be the difference with regard to the motion blur.

In reference to the firmware upgrade, will this also allow the user to use the 35Mbps setting instead of having to always use 50mbps ?

thanks

Michael

[Michael O’reilly]

Thanks for that thoughtful response Don. I’ve worked with Varicam footage at 720p24 and it exhibited none of the smearing artifacts I am seeing with this Sony (for the record, a PDWF350 with 1/2 inch chip).

My goal is to lose the hyper-real temporal plasticity of video. Believe it or not, but I cut my teeth on a Pixelvision toy camera that outputted 15fps. I learned from this toy that it is the temporal definition and not the spatial definition of the frame that makes video and film look so different.

So when shooting progressive was as easy as a menu choice, I jumped a the chance.

But this PDWF350 seems to be doing something different to the image than the Varicam (yeah, that’s why Varicam’s seem so sought after). We do have access to the next model up in terms of XDCAM cameras – I don’t have the model number but it has a 2/3 inch chip – are there more temporal features/controls with the 2/3 inch chip XDCAM camera ?

thanks

Michael O’Reilly

[Michael O’reilly]

Thanks for your reply Jerry.

This was my thinking initially – I tried to reconnect the subclip to the master clip from whence it came.

But the result was weird – once reconnected, the subclip had 4 video tracks, and still presented the specific video and audio out of which I had made the original subclip, but I could also hear other audio from the beginning of the master clip that the subclip was made from and the total length of the subclip now increases to the total length of the master clip.

weird.

any thoughts ?

Michael

[Michael O’reilly]

thanks for your response – that is helpful to know about the way 4.5 treats audio

yes, I realize this about markers having worked with FCP from 1.x – however, when one uses markers to make subclips, the name of the marker is carried over, so why not the comments (like in the comment field of the subclip ?)

Also why can’t I reference the master clip ? can someone try this ? create a subclip from a master and then park your playhead on any frame in the subclip and hit shift-F and see if that reveals either the subclip or the master ? I don’t know if I am doing something wrong or what

thanks

mike

markers are part of the project file not the item.

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