Olof Ekbergh
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Basically.
Add +5 brightness, to make brighter on PC’s.
Do crop to 15% all sides.
De-interlace if orig is interlaced.
Normalize Audio to 98.
You may want to play with gamma depending on material.Most people will probably view on a PC so that is why I brighten it a bit. They use different gamma.
The best thing is to do some tests on different computers. If it is only for Mac and it looks good in viewer then you can compress as is, just do interlace and normalize.
Olof Ekbergh
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Yes I have dropped frames too when adding SD footage to an HD timeline. The only way to get smooth playback is to render SD footage first.
This happens both with AJA Kona HDe and Matrox MX02. It is a FCP problem.
I use M100 as well there you have to render footage before dropping in timeline, a dialog box comes up and asks how you want footage interpreted, lots of choices. It does not take long to render.
I prefer this approach because playback is always perfect.
Olof Ekbergh
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I just export by reference. And then I set up filters in Squeeze to correct brightness and gamma. I also use a normalize audio setting.
Exporting by ref saves a lot of time only titles and effects need to be rendered. And it works great in Squeeze, Bitvice or Compressor. And it saves Disc space.
Olof Ekbergh
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You may want to consider a small Jib, they are fairly inexpensive and work with most sticks.
Not only do they give you added hight, but some really nice movements as well.
Just a thought.
Olof Ekbergh
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1/2″ chip is a lot smaller (5.5 times) than a full 35mm imager. This means lenses made for 35mm imagers (Chips) will be much longer.
A 24mm Canon or Nikon slr lens is very wide on a slr. But on a 1/2″ chip camera it is actually about a 135mm telephoto’.
The standard EX3 lens is 5.5mm to 85mm I think. That is roughly equivalent to 30mm to 460mm in 35mm slr terms.
You get the Idea.
Olof Ekbergh
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Above is a link to PHU-60 specs.
It has a SxS type card attached, it fits really well on an EX3, there is a rear hotshoe for it on the handle, where an EX1 has the vf. There also is a slot in the EX3 door for the wire, but not on the EX1.
It actually is a USB connection so you can’t overcrank just like SDHC cards. As a matter of fact it is because of the PHU that Sony implemented USB interface that allowed 3rd party SDHC cards to be used with EX line.
All EX3’s can use it. You need latest FW installed on an EX1, if you buy one make sure it has the latest FW.
Olof Ekbergh
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Above is a link to PHU-60 specs.
It has a SxS type card attached, it fits really well on an EX3, there is a rear hotshoe for it on the handle, where an EX1 has the vf. There also is a slot in the EX3 door for the wire, but not on the EX1.
It actually is a USB connection so you can’t overcrank just like SDHC cards. As a matter of fact it is because of the PHU that Sony implemented USB interface that allowed 3rd party SDHC cards to be used with EX line.
All EX3’s can use it. You need latest FirmWare installed on an EX1, if you buy one make sure it has the latest FW.
Olof Ekbergh
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Jim,
I use a LaCie bluray burner, I don’t think brand matters. Mine is a FireWire external.
Discs come 25 and 50 GB. The 50’s are dual layer, like 9GB DVD’s, not double sided.
They come 4x and 2x. 4x is almost twice as fast to burn.
50’s hold 43GB, 25’s 23GB approx.
The nice thing is I can also make Bluray discs for clients to watch on their TV’s. I still sometimes make HD-DVD’s as well (regular DVD 5 or 9 media but HD content). I use Toast for this.
I may get an internal for one of my Mac Pros soon. And I have been thinking about putting one in my MBP, I think they may be available now, though not from Apple. If not yet soon I think.
I have reused my SDHC cards, no problem so far. I would sell them to a client if they wanted to take them with them after the shoot. You can actually transfer in camera from card to card.
Olof Ekbergh
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I use Lacie Ruggeds and WD Passports for portables. I have had no problems with either, they come up to 500GB.
I also have a Sony PHU-60 hard drive that fits on my EX3, you get almost 4 hrs on that drive.
I use both SxS and SDHC cards with M&R adapter. I have had no trouble with older Sandisk cards, but I don’t trust them as much as SxS (no real reason just my gut), make sure red light is not on before ejecting any card, SDHC’s tend to stay red longer.
I have enough cards and the PHU-60 to shoot all day, so offloading in the field is not an issue. I use the SxS first then the PHU then SDHC. As I said I have never had a problem with any of them.
I use G-raid for faster FW drives, they are fast and seem reliable and I have a couple 2TB’s. Even though I have a 12TB RAID level 5 Promise system in my suites, I often edit on the G-raids.
I also archive on two WD 1 TB mybooks, and on BluRay discs, both 25 and 50’s. I keep redundant drives in 2 buildings. We also keep a database of all the Blurays and Folder names and Drive ID’s complete with thumbnails comments and descriptions that are searchable.
When in the field I back up to two portable drives every night, I have even been known to ship them to my studio FEDEX as they fill up, keeping second one with me. I have a large selection of portables 60GB to 500GB that sometimes go to a client or whatever, they are cheap and very handy.
Olof Ekbergh
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Correction:
Try using cinegamma 4 in picture profiles, turn down the detail in picture profiles try 20 0r 30. If light is very contrasty try cinegamma 1.
Olof Ekbergh