Michael Palmer
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Just get some good old fashion wooden clothes pins (aka C-47’s) and clip the gel on the front lamp. You can either purchase some Black Wrap or use use cooking foil from the kitchen drawer to create a snoot that extends beyond the front of the lamp over the gel to contain the light.
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Michael Palmer -
I guess we’ll never know what happened Tim.
The only issue with tapeless work flows is the large percentage of human error associated with it.So I see you’re hanging out here since you have been using the EX1.
Nice to have you around. Lets catch up tomorrow.
Michael Palmer
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“did you capture to the three Mac Pros with fw only? What were the settings on both camera and in FCP?”
No Firewire is only used for compressed video signals. I couldn’t and wouldn’t use Firewire as this would be post compression (firewire is HDV only with the EX cameras). The HD-SDI signal on the EX camera is before compression and this signal was piped 100′ to our DIT village then into the AJA LHe cards in the Mac Pro’s and we captured as Pro Rez. For a live capture you need to use the uncompressed signal from the HD-SDI port, so you better reconsider the MXO2, oh and you will love it.
The EX format was 1080p 30fps and so was the Pro Rez capture.
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Michael Palmer -
” I’d like to supersaturate the backdrop by stretching some green fabric over the reflector”
Adding fabric will reduce the lumens from the lamp. Follow Dennis’s recommendations. Just make sure you control the light to only the back drop. Its one thing to add light to the green screen but once you add color to these lights it must be contained to the area it is intended.Good Luck
Michael Palmer -
I captured from 3-EX3 cameras to 3 Mac Pro’s last season on an Animal Planet series and captured as Pro Rez, it was a solid solution.
If you are trying to capture in the field to a Mac Book Pro then you should consider the Matrox MXO2 portable HD I/O. This is an amazing new product that allows you to capture a 10 bit uncompressed signal to Pro Rez. I can’t recommend it enough.
https://www.matrox.com/video/en/products/mxo2/
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Michael Palmer -
“NOW…. If we could just get a stand alone hard drive to dump all of that SxS card media. You know, kinda like the P2Store.”
Its called Nexto
https://www.nextodi.com/en/product/Good Luck
Michael Palmer -
FWI the 720p DVC Pro HD resolution is 960×720 and the Sony EX 720p resolution is true 1280×720. What Final Cut means is that the format must be 720p DVC Pro HD codec or 720p EX Codec. The resolution and codec must match. If you are going to try this again then you will need a device to capture the uncompressed HD signal from like the Matrox MXO2 I/O.
The MXO2 is a portable I/O that with accept your HD-SDI from the EX camera and allow you to use Final Cut to capture to hard drive with in the field as DVC Pro HD. The Matrox MXO2 interfaces threw the express 34 slot of newer Mac Book Pro units and it also has a PCIe card that stays with your Mac Pro in the office. This is an amazing tool and if you don’t currently have a capture card you will be needing one and this is a great way to solve the field and office needs.
https://www.matrox.com/video/en/products/mxo2/
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Michael Palmer -
This is what I use.
6-MxR adapters and 12-16gig Transcend SDHC Class 6 cards.
https://www.expresscard-info.com/e-films-releases-mxr-expresscard-reader
https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820208410Good Luck
Michael Palmer -
Transcend Class 6 SDHC
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Michael Palmer -
You may want to check out the Matrox MXO2 I/O that will allow you to capture Pro Rez with both MBP and Mac Pro. This is an amazing product and I highly recommend it.
https://www.matrox.com/video/en/products/mxo2/Good Luck
Michael Palmer