Nate Weaver
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Are you aware that by capturing with the Kona you’d missing out on a lot of the reasons to be shooting XDCAM in the first place?
The way to work is to pull the files off the camera via the XDCAM Transfer software, free from Sony.
When you install the Sony software, there’s then Easy Setups for each mode/framerate of XDCAM.
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Not in the menus. It’s the “Counter” button on the LCD that toggles through TC/UB/CONTROL
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Alan, the camera does downconvert to a DV stream on the firewire port if you want it to. You choose whether you want the firewire port to be in AV/C mode (sending a DV stream out), or FAM mode, where you plug the cam into a computer and it shows up as a mass storage device.
In AV/C mode you can also capture HD like it was a DV camera, with deck control.
I’ve ALSO shot HD, and captured via HD-SDI into my Decklink card, while using the FW port in DV mode. This gave me deck control and timecode. Follow? I had to do this to get some 30P @25mbit into my computer (the one mode that’s not supported on the Mac).
I think you’re going to be out of luck on your animation desires…I’m racking my brain and I can’t think of a way you’re going to be able to do this unless you choose a fixed interval and use time lapse.
For the price of a Sony 90wh lithium battery you can buy a Canon Digital Rebel and get a superior animation camera!
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It’s scary how close the SD lenses come to the HD units. I see a difference for sure, but my clients sure won’t unless it’s the crappiest SD lens I could find.
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[Alan Lacey] “So when the manual says ‘one frame every hour’ it really means ‘one two second clip every hour’? I can’t see this working for time lapse very well”
No, if you let the time-lapse run as designed, you get exactly what you’d expect. It’s just that if you keep hitting the record button, you interrupt the usual process and you get individual clips, each 2 seconds long no matter what.
I’ve done timelapses of clouds and cars at 1 frame per second, and one frame every 4 seconds. It works beautifully and easily.
Also, be aware that under and overcranking doesn’t work in DVCAM mode. I don’t recall if timelapse works in DV either, I’m guessing it does not. In those cases you’d have to shoot HD and let the camera downconvert via firewire for you or downconvert in your NLE
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I have information on it.
I’ve been shooting 24p HQ mode for almost 3 weeks now, and it’s been working fine in FCP 🙂
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I just tried that method Carroll, trying to get three frames, and I wound up getting 3 two second clips on disc. I had the camera set to 1 frame every 10 seconds.
The shortest a clip can be due to GOP issues is 2 seconds.
The 3 clips I got had normal motion in them, as if interval recording was off. I have to say I was skeptical of that method, because the manual states the shortest clip that can be written to disc is 2 seconds.
Perhaps if you did this for 48 frames, you could get a single clip…I don’t know.
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Not really. But it will do intervals from 1 frame per second to 1 frame every hour or day, and a lot in between.
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[Alan Lacey] “Considered editing using Vegas Nate? They claim good XDcamHD compatibilty too – it’s a Sony product after all! and you’ll be able to use the HQ flavour of the HDmpeg rather than being limited to the 25mbs one.”
Vegas has no infrastructure here in Los Angeles. I rely on being able to take projects to post houses for HDCAM outputs if I need to (although I’m starting to do them at home), and there’s a large base of FCP talent here as well.
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I’m really happy with my 350 and the way things work in FCP right now. I’ve done one big project so far and post was a breeze.
I’d prefer that the chips were 2/3″, and the bitrate 50, but it really is much better in practice than the numbers indicate.