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Paul Zwicker
December 7, 2014 at 11:59 pm in reply to: Split clips on one card

You may want to start a new thread-this one’s 2 years old.

Never remove files from or rename BPAV folder-all the data within it in needed together. If you try to open one of the files within the folder, you will get nowhere fast.

Use Sony’s XDCam Transfer Software or XDCam Browser software to convert the BPAV folder into useable files.

Not exactly sure why files are split up-they are when you run out of room on one card and the files continue on the 2nd card in the camera.
Good luck.

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Wisconsin, US
Sony PMW EX3
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Final Cut Pro 6.6
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Paul Zwicker
September 27, 2013 at 8:45 pm in reply to: Shaving mb’s off video…

Rich,

I’ve not been in the office to check my latest settings.
I usually use 640 x 360, but cannot seem to set the settings to break that 100 mg barrier.

Thanks,
Paul

ZwickFlicks LLC
Wisconsin, US
Sony PMW EX3
MacPro
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Paul Zwicker
September 25, 2013 at 8:45 pm in reply to: Shaving mb’s off video…

Hi Rich,

16×9…I’ll keep trying. I just got so close with that last setting.
I’ll try going your route one more time.
I have not tried restricting the kbs that far as yet.

Thanks for the help.

Paul

ZwickFlicks LLC
Wisconsin, US
Sony PMW EX3
MacPro
Final Cut Pro 6.6
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Paul Zwicker
February 18, 2013 at 8:05 pm in reply to: EX3 Survey: Sticky Zoom on stock lens

Frank,

Keep us posted if you figure out an alternative solution to this motor issue. Thank you for investigating it and posting.

Paul Zwicker

ZwickFlicks LLC
Wisconsin, US
Sony PMW EX3
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Paul Zwicker
May 15, 2012 at 7:04 pm in reply to: Compressor failed”-Quicktime movie file with issues.

Steve, Thought of that although I am running 10.5.8 OS X…have to figure out how to do that.

ZwickFlicks LLC
Wisconsin, US
Sony PMW EX3
MacPro
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Paul Zwicker
April 13, 2012 at 11:12 am in reply to: Split clips on one card

Thanks for the reply Ian.
I’ll check my firmware and do some more testing.
Paul

ZwickFlicks LLC
Wisconsin, US
Sony PMW EX3
MacPro
Final Cut Pro 6.6
http://www.zwickflicks.com
Paul Zwicker
April 12, 2012 at 1:11 pm in reply to: Split clips on one card

Ian,

I recently suffered a “media needs to be restored” message on a 32 Gb Transcend Class 10 card with a Hoodman adapter.

I was nearly 30 minutes into recording a single clip when the error message occurred. I had to quickly switch to a 2nd card to finish the job. (Shooting 1080/24.)

I powered down, copied the card to hard drive, then put it back in the EX3 and restored the card.
Only the 1st subclip was restored(13 minutes)

From my initial transfer of data to hard drive, 3 subclips show up under the main clip but were unreadable by any Sony software or VLC, or other convertor I had.

I copied the corrupt BPAV folder back to another Transcend card and restored that card. The 1st 2 subclips were restored!
I now had another 13+ minutes of video once again.

I do not think I lost anything in this process. The last subclip did not restore but my timecode showed only 40 seconds missing-most likely the time it took me to react and switch over cards. It is possible that the last(3rd) subclip had a small amount of data on it, but I recovered the majority of the information.

So, what if anything could I have done differently?
(besides using Sony brand cards)?

ZwickFlicks LLC
Wisconsin, US
Sony PMW EX3
MacPro
Final Cut Pro 6.6
http://www.zwickflicks.com
Paul Zwicker
December 14, 2011 at 2:39 pm in reply to: EX3 Unable to update Firmware

Thanks Ian,

Just now got a call back telling me my early version camera (serial #100110), needs to go in for firmware. What I don’t get was why the early versions were unable to be user updated from 1.03.

If only they could fix the sticky lens issue…..

ZwickFlicks LLC
Wisconsin, US
Sony PMW EX3
MacPro
Final Cut Pro 6.6
http://www.zwickflicks.com
Paul Zwicker
December 14, 2011 at 2:22 pm in reply to: EX3 Unable to update Firmware

Well, I seem to have allowed time to pass me by.
My EX3 is still on V1.03.

How does one go about upgrading from here?
Do I want to upgrade the firmware?
What do I really get with this?

Sony Tech phone support goes right into voicemail.

ZwickFlicks LLC
Wisconsin, US
Sony PMW EX3
MacPro
Final Cut Pro 6.6
http://www.zwickflicks.com
Paul Zwicker
July 22, 2011 at 2:43 pm in reply to: Matching EX1 & EX3

Thanks for the confirmation Michael.

I knew I could copy the Profile onto a SxS card and read it into the 2nd camera-I just wanted to be sure there weren’t any other surprises coming my way.

BTW-Thank you for the many years of your helpful insights and assistance here on the Cow.

Paul

ZwickFlicks LLC
Wisconsin, US
Sony PMW EX3
MacPro
Final Cut Pro 6.6
http://www.zwickflicks.com

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