Paul Humphrey
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Hi,
I am now experiencing a very annoying problem with my Sony HDR-SR12. I am in a rock band and have recorded several concerts with this camera, as I love its ability to record long stretches of footage at a time (e.g. 4+ hours of HD). However, the past few shows I have attempted to record have ended with me walking up the camera after the show only to find it has somehow turned itself over to “DEMO MODE” (this appears on the LCD screen) and after reviewing the footage on the hard drive only about 1 minute of the concert was recorded. I have tried different mic level settings (I wish this camera had a manual audio level adjustment!), the 5.1 vs 2 channel audio option… I was wondering if the loud sound levels were causing this? Anyone else had this issue? Please advise.
many thanks,
Paul
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Yes this is right exactly – I was confused earlier. With the HDR-SR12 you will see both the P2 card slot and the internal hard drive options. Next to these is a little tiny icon with two carrot symbols in it – if you click this you will see two drop down options, Apple Intermediate Codec and also Apple Pro Res 422. I have found that Apple Intermediate Codec works the best – it preserves the aspect ratio and also uses 20 percent hard drive space. I tested importing a 1 min clip and AIC was about 800MB and the Pro Res was about 1GB
So when you create a new project, select the Apple Intermediate Codec in your Easy Setup dialogue. At least this works the best for me. FCP 6.0.3
Paul
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These are determined by whatever “Easy Setup” option you chose for your project. You must create a project first, save it, then open Log & Transfer. All tranferred clips will then be associated with the project and saved into whatever scratch capture location you have set up.
I believe… I am not sure if using the Apple Intermediate Codec is a better option for AVCHD?
Paul
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I have actually had some more success since I posted. The SR12 only hooks up via USB 2.0. I have Final Cut 6.0.3 and use Log and Transfer with the Apple Pro Res 422 setting. I find this eats up about 1 GB per minute of transferred footage. Since I shoot lots of live concert footage, my “clips” sometimes are 3 hours long! So I have found that the In/Out cursor will freak out on clips longer than 2 hours. I found a workaround by clicking and holding down the left mouse button in the scrub window, then marking the In and Out points manually by noting them while scrubbing and typing them into the In/Out windows below.
however, now I am having issues trying to use compressor to create an 800K H.264 quicktime for website use. Sometimes I get a full 16×9 frame, sometimes I get a letterboxed clip…. sometimes a 60min clip takes 10 hours to encode, sometimes after 10 hours it tells me I still have 15 hours left!
I use a MacBook Pro with sucky slow external USB drives – obviously I need more horsepower to work with HDV.
Paul