Thank you, but I already returned the camera. I didn’t want to , but I couldn’t justify the purchase.

I’ve tried 3 different wired lavs into the 3.5mm mic input (not headphones input) of my Sony FX30 (I do not have the XLR handle) and had zero levels. These lavs worked fine on my iPhones, tho an adapter was needed. Wondering if something is wrong w the camera or if it’s designed not to deliver power in some way to these kind of mics. I can get a…

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Thank you for that. Unfortunately, trying to get a phone number to call Panasonic is just about impossible. I looked and tried for over an hour today. They don’t want you to call and instead you have to fill out a form in the hopes that it reaches the right dept and someone there knows what you’re talking about. Then you have to wait for an email…

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Just updated the body firmware of this camera to v3.1 but the lens, a Panasonic LUMIX S 24-105mm F4 (S-R24105), firmware still reads 1.1 whereas Panasonic lists 1.3 as the most recent version available. When I try to update the lens, the camera says either firmware is already installed (if both the body and lens firmware are on the card) or…

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I have 2 x TEAMGROUP MP34 4TB NVME drives in RAID 0 (using Apple Raid Assistant) in a SABRENT Thunderbolt 3 to Dual NVMe M.2 SSD Enclosure connected to my M1 Pro MacBook Pro using Thunderbolt 3. When I first run the speed tests & the drive is empty, it runs around 2000-2500+ MB/s read & write.

But, it starts to get inconsistent and weird as it…

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I’m inheriting a project that began in AE and the producer wants to play around with the edit significantly. This is easier to do in Premiere and I hardly know AE, so I’m trying to export the project to Premiere, but each time I do, several audio tracks disappear or are mixed into one. The AE file has 18 audio tracks but there are only 5 in…

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I looked more into it and found this eatings out:

– PPro 2020 will take you to the proxies if you are in proxy mode, but PPro 2022 will always take you to the online version. This is a stupid change and someone at Adobe needs to fix that.

– there is a performance upgrade using the proxies, but not as much as I had hoped. It seems that the biggest…

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Thanks for that. Are you sure that Reveal In Finder will take you to the original tho? That’s not my recollection from my last project and also I just watch a video on PPro proxy workflow that suggested using Reveal in Finder to find the proxy file, but stressed it would only work if toggle proxies is switch on (on being use proxies).

I made ProRes…

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I made proxies in ME and attached them in PPro 2022. In the Project Panel they show as “attached” and give the location where the proxies files are, but when I right click there and on the timeline to “Reveal In Finder”, it always takes me to the original files, not the proxies. Proxy mode is activated and the clips have the blue icon for proxy i…

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I have a project with around 11 cameras most of which are from different manufacturers (Sony, BlackMagic, etc) and thus use different codecs and some have different frame rates and resolutions. I made proxies for them all ME and am trying to connect them in PPro. When I select the clips and go to Attach Proxies, it opens a new window and says…

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Thanks for that! It wouldn’t work for me though to export as one long file as the reason I’m combining the files is to help them get recognized in an audio sync in PluralEyes.

I was dreading exporting each group of files, but then found that I could import each folder w/ these small files into Media Encoder as something to “stitch together”. The…

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I produced the shoot of a live event where a friend shot his footage onto an external recorder in ProRes HQ. I believe the recorder was formatted in such a way that the maximum file size was 4GB. So, instead for having one 16GB file, named something like “file01”, I have a folder named “file01” and 4 video clips inside it named “file01_000”,…

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I have a 10 camera shoot of a live event that I’m using as the impetus to switch to resolve from Premiere. It’s a help to me to rename the files from these cameras so I recognize them quicker and keep them better organized. I did the last event in PPro after renaming the clips, but I didn’t have MXF files or their accompanying XML files to deal…

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Update: I tried copying and pasting the project into a new sequence, but the render in to out still just hangs forever. This is maddening.

I’m revisiting an old project and making some promos from it, but there are 9 different cameras, various frame rates & codecs, etc. But, when I try to render in to out, nothing happens. It doesn’t even start and if I try to cancel it, PPro freezes. It’s a ProRes HQ timeline, but the same problem happens when I duplicate the sequence and make it…

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Thanks for that. I’ll be used an external SSD Raid running around 1500MB/s, so we should be good there. I was more wondering if the MacBook Air would be able to work with the kind of mess of a project as I’ve had before and if a Studio would make a snappier and easier editing experience than a 14″ MBP Max or simply the MBP M1 Pro. Any thoughts?

I produce and edit an unscripted series of a live event that we’ve had good success taking the pilot on the festival circuit. We’re now about to shoot our first of 5 episodes of the series, but it’s a complicated edit b/c we have all kinds of formats and some slow-motion frame rates. Those details are below. For the last edit I used Premi…

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So wait, that video says Thunderbolt 3 supports 4 lanes of PCIe but TB4 only supports only 1 lane? If this is the case, then how do external TB4 enclosures w/ NVMe drives get close to 2750 MB/s just like TB3 enclosures? I’m looking for external M1 Mac options as well and came across a few TB4 DIY cases that boasted this speed.

Thank you for that. Can you tell me a bit more about how the EVA1 doesn’t play well w Resolve? If you transcode EVA1 files to ProRes, does it work better? I’m tempted to switch to Resolve for any number of reasons, including speed and PPro is about as buggy as that scene from Indiana Jones and The Temple of Doom…

As for my edit in PPro, I made…

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Thanks for that! I didn’t know latency could work that way w/ finding it hard to play an image sequence of thousands of smaller files. But, I have that going on in my timeline as I tend to keep many layers of alternative clips as options. I was thinking the latency was just more of the issue of SSD starting up faster that spinning drives, kind of…

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I produce and edit an unscripted web series that involves a live event where we shoot around 9 cameras in varying formats and frame rates. I’ll describe them more below. I have two external storage devices:
– OWC ThunderBay 4 w 4 x HDs in RAID 0 and connected via Thunderbolt 3. It runs around 600 MB/s read and write.
– Oyen RAID 0 using 2 x S…

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Good suggestion. I tend to do that, but it takes up a lot of time and disk space. It definitely plays back better though. The problem is, it also seems to degrade the quality of the GoPro and drone footage.

I’m still curious though when the bottleneck is the disk speed. For all my years of editing, I’ve always assumed it was the CPU or GPU. But, I…

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I’m confused about where bottlenecks really originate and how to tell, but I know I need something that works better than my last edit–even using proxies. I produce and edit an unscripted web series that shoots around 9 cameras in varying formats (everything from DSLRs to Pansonic EVA1s, to GoPros to drones, etc) and resolutions, but we’ll pro…

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That will be some work, but it’s doable. Thank you again very much!!

Thank you for this! And yes, the Canon files are named “00000.MTS” and go from here to “00083.MTS”. The original editor (I’m just trying to do some color and audio finishing) may have renamed the clips from the camera though. Regardless, when I open the XML into Resolve, the clips it shows for the project are all misnamed, duplicated, etc. Things…

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I’m new to this software and am trying to import a .fcpxml file into Resolve v16.0.0.060. Every time I do, Resolve says “24 of 24 clips were not yet found.” I select yes to get Resolve to search in the folder where the clips are, but it still doesn’t see them. So, I have a timeline w/ nothing but Media Offline clips. Also, the clips have complet…

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