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set my manual knee point to 80% IN PP1
I haven’t been doing this. I will try it out!
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Thank you! You’re the first person who’s acknowledged you are seeing some noise. I’m not crazy! 🙂
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Hey guys… I truly appreciate all the comments. I’m not doing anything weird. I’m plugging the EX1 to my MacPro, using the latest XDCAM Transfer app (2.7.0). And that resulting MOV is getting put into Final Cut Pro 6.0.4. And I’m also taking that same file into After Effects 8.0.3.
And all I’m getting is noise noise noise. 🙁
The problem exists across four Mac Pros, three iMacs and two EX1 cams.
I should be able to turn on a factory fresh EX1, push the record button and get noise free footage, right? There’s not any special setting ‘reduce noise’ function that isn’t active by default, right?
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It’s a screen capture utility for the Mac.
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Hi Juan! Great to see a Sony person here! We’ve had two EX1’s for a couples months and we’ve never been able to get an image any better than this.
I can verify this is the noise I’m seeing *before* I run SnapZ Pro. It’s recording the noise accurately and not introducing any more than what I see when I don’t run it. That’s why I posted a losslessly compressed Quicktime. This IS the problem noise I’m seeing.
We’ve connected an EX1 to a HD monitor via SDI and live video looks smooth, crisp, and noise free. As soon as we record to the SxS cards, all these artifacts appear when we ingest it into Final Cut (using the latest XDCAM Transfer app).
I want to point the finger at the XDCAM Quicktime codec that the Transfer app installs. It seems like the weak link and not ready for prime time.
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Very nice! Woooo — $3000 nice! =/
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I’m sure this is obvious, but is the deck the only Firewire device connected to your Mac? Have you tried turning off both your Mac and deck and trying different power up sequences? (Power the Mac first / power the deck first / turn them both on and then insert the cable / power them on with the cable inserted first / etc)
Have you tried another cable? (The cable connector might be faulty)
Can other cameras connect to FCP with the same cable? (the port on your deck might be faulty — those 4-pin iLink connectors and ports are notoriously delicate)
Do you know anyone who has Final Cut 6? Are you running Leopard and FCP 5?
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I’ll try the Zip and replace method. Previously I was renaming old clips “old” or “kill” as he edited which turned the media offline for him. I can’t delete Quicktimes he’s using as they are marked “busy” by the system.
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Yeah, I checked that. PAR is off. Footage is correctly interpreted as 1920×1080, square pixel. =/
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I knew it had to be easy! Thanks so much for the quick reply.