[Robert Semeniuk]

Nope- I use this type of camera at work, with no need for such adaptor yet.

I have looked into purshasing a couple, but you know, my head starts to swim when I read the “He said- she said” on the reliability of the aftermarket cards, the “I wouldn’t trust those in the field” kind of comments, etc.

I haven’t got the firmware update either, to accept the 32GB and aftermarket card.

What I have works well for me until i get into this type of stuff- doing favors for a friend that has issues not seen in the tape world.

I know that’s why tape still lives. For old schoolers like me it’s just easier to hand over a consumable that you trust and are familiar with.

I know tape has issues but lots of advantages too, the ability to hand it off being one of them.

[Robert Semeniuk]

Aha! I wondered about that, if increasing that number was related to the stuttery video!

So jacking up that data rate will potentially improve video quality without affecting speed of plaback, then.

Thanks!

[Robert Semeniuk]

Thanks for that. When you say double the data rate, is that in the encode to 264? Or is there something that I’m missing when I export to self-contained movie?

I’m not sure about the washout, I have to address one thing at a time. I exported out of Streamclip, so it might be suffering from the much talked-about “gamma shift”.

I looked at this vid at home and it still looks crappy, so I’ve got my work cut out for me.

Thanks,

Semi

[Robert Semeniuk]

Thanks Dennis. I was reluctant to de-interlace because of the crazy render times. I had to leave something else cook overnight because it seems to take so long thru Compressor.

I agree about the camera pans. I will live with them in this instance if I can get the rest of my videos loaded with exceptional quality. Any advice on the file size being 121 MB? Since I have a Gig to use, can I increase the quality/filesize somewhere without having something else suffer? Or it is what it is?

[Robert Semeniuk]

Thanks for the help guys. If this works, it will help when we hire an outside edit house to do work for us with stuff I shot. Otherwise, there’ll be big trouble. It still doesn’t help with the stuff already ingested into FCP but I’m working on something for that too.

My only other option is to output to tape to move video from Final Cut Pro but we haven’t the money to invest in any kind of HD machine.

Many thanks!

[Robert Semeniuk]

Well, now my cover is blown. You now know I’m merely posing as computer literate. I never even got the acronym straight (BPAV vs BVAP.

I was trying to leave the house and clearly should have vetted that post more thoroughly. What I wrote was not exactly what I was thinking.

Of course “FlipforMac” is for the Mac. What I meant is, is there not a program that allows a PC to read a Mac formatted drive? If so, the BPAV folder containing the un-molested/altered/wrapped media, should be transferable to a PC, where the Sony clipbrowse software would take care of converting the it to something Avid could see.

Whaddya think?

[Robert Semeniuk]

Greg, I have quite a few questions- could we chat on the phone?

Email your # to semis57@gmail.com, or if you prefer email only, shoot me a note to the noted account and I’ll get you my work account.

Thanks,

Rob Semeniuk

[Robert Semeniuk]

Is this my answer to get already-ingested XDCam EX1 footage out of FCP, and into the Avid down the street?

There will be times when I need to bring footage over to an Avid Nitris. I never thought it would be so complex.

[Robert Semeniuk]

Curious to know how things turned out? Were you able to get the media out of Final Cut and into the Avid?

[Robert Semeniuk]

I use an EX1 and do things the same way you do. My system suffers no delay, but I’ve got a quad core MacPro so that might be the difference. Someone smarter than me might have the lowdown on whether the problem may be your laptop not keeping up.

That’s my experience, anyway.