Miles Johnston
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Very disappointed in the default colorimetry setups. Very dull. Life less.
Could not believe it is mute when using the SD/HD SDI function. Still cant!Access to setups and pluggery all very good. I have an XL-1 so it was natural to get the HD version. I also have a small JVC Hard Disc camera, and its shaky as hell, and having to haul a PC along to dump down to Hard Drive, shooting and keeping content is a major pain, especially now with airline surcharges on extra weight are so high.
The DVD dump feature, with compressed video is anothger damn box to bring with you.
So I shoot on 1440 mode, and dump to miniDV. So until the Hard Drive cameras can offer a sensible way of getting the media off them, Canons decision to stay with tape is sound.
What is the point of having to run around with PCs and MACs, when a small tape is easy to store/is light and easy to get in different countries, and locations.
having lost an SD card due to slight moisture and sweaty fingers in hot weather, I have very little trust in SD/Solid state storage media.
Love the camera.Frustrated with getting 4 track audio off it to FCP.
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Very useful advice. I found the Factory setting very dull, very low colour and very washed out.DULL
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the SDI is mute, so you need to go YUV.and the XLR/RCAs
SDI is for Studio camera use, and has no use at all for what a camcorder is intended, recording SOUND and Video. -
I gave up ingesting via the SDI port when I found the RCA jacks all muted when the SDI BNC is plugged in, I almost bloew a gasket. Having given up in amazement that the camera was Mute in SDI, I had not checked the XLRs. I assumed these were also muted.
A camera that has no sound when using SDI has no use whatsoever. If I want a Studio camera, I will buy one. But a Camcorder should have SOUND and Vision.
In the end I used the YUV port, and gave up on the SDI. -
Wind the tape on and rewind again.
You dont know the condition tapes have been stored in, before you buy them. -
I was shocked at the serious noise level that erupts from nowhere in low light, with the XL-H1. I have found the Canon to be vertually blind in Low light. My older Canbon XL-1 has better pictures in SD in low light, or just ambient hall lighting in a lecture theatre. Best to keep off the auto setups.
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The FCP settings were locked. So ended up using the Decklink Pro Extreme card, and exporting from the XL-H1 via YUV and the XLRs, I even had a an SD version, and was going to take tracks 3 and 4 off that. But this was a close shot lecture, and lipsync errors would have certainly been a serious editing issue, over 45 mins. Too much hastle. Why this camera cant export into FCP without so much hastle is beyond me.
Still cant understand why the XL-H1’s SDI output is mute, an entirely useless feature. No audio from a Camcorder, with 4 audio tracks, by design!
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How can you access the audio separately, when as soon as the HD/SD SDI connector is plugged in, all audio connectors are mute. Except the heaphone jack.
Could not believe that its not possible to playback recorded tape from this deck, using SDI. What is the point of it, if you cannot access the audio!Fiannly used the YUV via an Extreme. A MAJOR disappointment with this camera, Useless specs and useless sockets. This is not made clear in the manual.
It should say When using SDI, All audio output is shut down, thereby making any use of the SDI worthless.