Nate Weaver
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There’s a bug with the current transfer software where you can only import the number of clips that you have you undo in FCP set to. You can bump it up to 99 undos, but that hogs RAM, I believe.
Smaller chunks is the cure, until next go-around.
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Yes, it’s true. XDCAM Transfer 1.1 handles reel names, among other things…
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My first use of the F350 was with Canon J11x4.5 SD lenses. Now that I’ve had a few lenses on my own 350, and seen res charts of even more, it seems that those Canon SD lenses did very, very well.
I have no idea where a Fuji A-series would fall compared to that…
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The party line on why the 24p resolution is lower is because the camera is making 24fps from interlaced CCDs, most likely running at 48hz. It no way half resolution though, Sony has some secret sauce going on.
Also be aware that just because a set of CCDs are say, 1080-line, there’s something called the Kell factor that keeps them from resolving 1080 lines. Kell factor, from what I know, is generally 70-80% of pixel resolution, depending on who you ask. There’s lots of things at work to lower the end resolution of a camera…I like to think of the 350 as delivering 800+ lines V and H.
Just FYI, I picked this all up from working by Adam Wilt’s side for 4 days of camera testing, both in January and April.
I wouldn’t sweat it. It’s a great camera for the money…
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Hey Tip,
I was in on the Texas camera tests in April with Adam Wilt where we looked at this stuff.
30p is full res. 31fps is not. Also, don’t confuse the half-VRes overcrank modes with what happens to the vertical resolution in 24p mode. In overcrank, the camera actually writes 1440×540 MPEG files to disk…but in 24p (with shutter on), you lose about 10-15% vertical res. I can see it on a chart (and even then it’s a little hard to see), but in real life I don’t miss it at all.
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I was going to say that, but I was kinda waiting for some backup.
I think one of the issues Bob is having is that the XD Transfer software isn’t carrying over disc names into the reel number field…and says that if you name the disc before shooting to it, you won’t have that problem.
That may be true…but I figured it’s a shortcoming of the transfer software.
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You or they are getting the ideas of naming the disc and naming the clips mixed up.
You cannot name the disc in the camera.
You can insure every clip has a unique and useful name in the camera, however.
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The flags you speak of are a combination of timecode and userbits. If neither of these are copied exactly to the new tapes, then you’ll have problems.
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[Bob Buruchian] “I cannot believe that there is no way to label the disc and certainly we realize once it is mounted the name of the disc can be changed in the finder but this needs to happen prior to the shooting so when logged each clip has this info.”
Well, you’re right. The functionality is there in the current firmware.
In the camera menus, you’re looking for a function called “Clip Title”. When enabled, you put enter a clip prefix. From then on, you can have “CAM A00001” and so on, and “CAM B00001” and etc.
You gotta read the manual, man 🙂
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I think bars have limited usefulness these days, but I agree with Tony for the reasons he has given also.
On a multicam XDCAM HD shoot I had over the summer though, I found myself in a new head-scratcher when I was editing, I saw that half my operators rolled bars on the XDCAMs! I was like “now what am I going to do with these!?”