Olof Ekbergh
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I would use Uncompressed or Prores, but to be sure contact and ask the facility you plan to use.
If I was to do lets say a BetaSP NTSC, you would have to export as Prores SD or uncompressed SD 1080i with pulldown. There are a lot of choices letterbox, cropped or anamorphic.
Or you could let the facility do the conversion for you. Just give them the specs you want and send the HD file.
Olof Ekbergh
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If you don’t have the deck and a card with component and/or SDI out, or will to rent borrow or whatever.
You could send an external drive with a .mov to a place like Video Transfers in Boston, or an editing suite with formats you need. And have the put it on format of your choice, and even scope it to make sure it is legal.
Olof Ekbergh
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I have not tried my Canon 18X from the 500 on the EX3 yet.
It would fit if I got the 2/3″ adapter (a 1/2″ adapter comes with the EX3), and I may end up getting it, but not for the SD 18X.
I will probably get a wider lens 4.5mm, or wider if they become available. I love the idea of not using a add on wide lens. It will be interesting to see what comes out in the next year or so.
The stock lens is wider than my 18x on the 500, but I want something equal to a 20-24mm (35mm) lens.
What I would love to see is an adapter so I can use my Canon M series 35mm lenses. I have 3 of them for my still cameras and the would be great for long wildlife shots.
And frankly even at 14X for my purposes it is long enough. I use a Miller Solo tripod, witch I like a lot, it is light and very smooth. But even at only 14 X it is very touchy, even wind will vibrate the image. I can get smooth pans even at 14X if I use a rubber band to pull handle. Any longer setting really only works locked down, and in calm wind situations. I found that using image stabilization produces worse results, I always leave that off on sticks.
There is lot of discussion on these forums about SD lenses for HD. If I do get the 2/3″ adapter I will certanly try any lenses I have and I will publish my results here. I will bet that the stock lens is better than most SD lenses for this cam.
If I was doing a lot of long shots I would have to invest in a much heavier duty tripod. I know I could use the DIAWA I have for the 500, it would probably be smoother. But the EX3 feels much better on the Miller Solo.
Maybe someone out there has a suggestion for good sticks for long lens on a light camera. I think hanging sandbags on the sticks will help. I have shot on top of Mt. Washington in 100mph wind with both Beta and DSR500’s, and there it took two of us to hold down the camera and sticks.
Also I think the plate mount on the EX3 is not very heavy duty, and apt to make camera shaky. I plan to work on a solution for this. I think with a much heavier lens this may be a big issue.
So I would say if you do a lot of really long shots a bigger camera would be much better solution, unless there is some sort of revolution is support systems.
Olof Ekbergh
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I find the EX3 with chinplate installed and slideout shoulder pad quite easy to use. The Steady feature in the stock lens helps as well.
My experience is that it is far less tiering than shooting with a full size (in my case a DSR500).
I have also adopted my seadi-cam™ mini to the EX3. This works really great and is 20 lbs lighter now.
Below is a link to a quick and dirty video about a Rock Band, shot in about an hour. Some steadi-cam™ some handheld. This was shot after a 12hr run and gun day, 250 miles of driving 5 locations and 2 hrs on tape (SxS that is). We then shot this after dinner. I don’t think I could have done it with my 500, I would have been too tired to do an hour of stedi after toting the 500 around all day, not to mention the stedi shoot. I also shot 2 of those locations with stedi-cam™. The Harley shot was just hanging out the window with EX3 hand held low for dramatic angle.
I love this camera, plan to get another and sell the 500’s.
https://www.westsideav.com/wot/TPband.html
Olof Ekbergh
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I think those are Solid State Drives, for Laptops.
https://www.engadget.com/2008/07/15/ridata-ultra-s-plus-mlc-ssds-arrive-in-32-64-128gb-flavors-star/
Olof Ekbergh
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My PHU-60 seems to work flawlessly.
I recorded a total f about 5 hrs some long clips, 1hr 55min was the longest.
One of them spanned to my A card.
No problems playing back.
At this point I have confidence in the drive. I will post if I have any problems or comments.
Olof Ekbergh
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I am now doing a test on my PHU-60. So far so good.
I have recorded about 2 hrs to it so far stopping now and then switching EX3 to clip view, and everything seems fine.
I will leave it on for 3 hours or so to use the whole HD up and see if it switches to SxS card OK.
Are some other people out there using this unit with no problems?
I am recording in 1080i HQ. I will try other formats as well.
Olof Ekbergh
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Back in 1998 I think it was.
I had a Museum as a client and we had a video the wanted to run in 30 seat theatre.
Back then Beta SP was about the only way to do it for component output. Pretty expensive and all the problems of tape transport etc.
DVD’s had just come out. It would have cost about $15,000.00 to have a DVD made back then. So I looked into buying an authoring setup.
First I bought a system for a Wintel machine. It meant using 4 different programs, kind of a nightmare, as I remember 2 of them were DOS. We also bought a $4,500.00 Pioneer DVD burner (I still use that for authoring DVD’s). DVD blanks back then cost $50.00 ea. I went through more than a dozen of them over 2 months trying to burn 1 20 minute DVD that was play once then stop, I had over 100 hrs of tech support and the company never could get it to work, they wanted to charge me . Eventually I got my money back from the company. This was quite a battle.
Well to make a long story short. I Bought the Sonic solutions hardware system for Mac, expensive! But the very first disc I burned was perfect, and the second third forth etc. were too.
I used that system, until a few years ago (I still have it in a box PCI cards and all) when DVDsp came out. And as much as I hate to say it the then $500.00 program was better than the $20,000.00 hardware system.
My point is, you bleed if you try to lead.
So far I have only made standard DVD-R’s, that play in Bluray set-tops, using Toast.
I will probably play some with Encore, but I will not tell clients I can make interactive Blurays other than extremely simple Toast versions. Luckily most of our DVD’s run in KIOSK’s simply looping.
I bet in a year or 2 we will have great BD solutions. I still also use HD-DVD in a few interactive KIOSK projects, they work just like standard DVD’s, made in DVDsp.
I do feel you pain. I still have the scars.
Olof Ekbergh
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I use m Macbook Pro to do the transfer to a FW800 HD from SxS card. This is faster than USB connection about 6X real time.
Then I hook FW drive to m main M100 system and transfer to my main raid.
I then open the clips in QT and decide what clips to import into M100 12.7.1.
I then drag import into a bin, I use ProRes 422 HQ. This is slower than 1:1 about 1.5:1 (5 minute clip takes 7-8 minutes) this may be a lot faster in an 8 core Mac (mine is 4 core 2.66 5GB ram).
I have only just started with this system, m approach may change.
If you are not in a rush when you use the XDcam transfer program ou could speed up the process b selecting shorter clips there.
I am off on another shoot today, so I will do more transfers this week.
So far I like the way tis works a lot.
Olof Ekbergh
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That is how interlaced footage looks on a progressive computer monitor.
View it on a NTSC monitor to be sure.
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