[Tom David]

This is good feedback, thank you.

Cheers,
Tom

Camera Operator – Editor – Motion Graphics
(https://www.tomdavid.com.au)

[Tom David]

This might sound like a stupid suggestion at this point, but have you checked that your not shooting with the FULL AUTO button on (left side of camera)? If you are shooting at f8, and the camera thinks that this is underexposed, it will crank the gain automatically to compensate which might suggest your high gain in picture.

I haven’t had grain issues yet with this camera, so keep fighting the good fight!

Cheers,
Tom

Camera Operator – Editor – Motion Graphics
(https://www.tomdavid.com.au)

[Tom David]

I’ve was tricked up by a menu item where in ATW settings, preset B (the physical switch) can be set to ATW (automatic), and thus even though I could balance with Preset B, the white balance was shifting into green and purple spaces. Check that this is set to manual – otherwise, I haven’t come across this yet, and I shoot regularly with these.

Cheers,
Tom

Camera Operator – Editor – Motion Graphics
(https://www.tomdavid.com.au)

[Tom David]

I don’t own “Episode Pro” and don’t fancy buying it to complete this task if necessary – will FCP do the job transcoding to XDCam with the output from FFMPEGX? Good comments regarding data wrangler – I definately agree.

Cheers,
Tom

Camera Operator – Editor – Motion Graphics
(https://www.tomdavid.com.au)

[Tom David]

Thanks very much – I will follow this up now. As for charging more, I hired my gear out to these chaps. Perhaps I should have told them to copy the whole BPAV folder?? Their first time using gear, so for the interests return business, this ones on me.
Cheers.

Cheers,
Tom

Camera Operator – Editor – Motion Graphics
(https://www.tomdavid.com.au)

[Tom David]

To edit multicam clips, and view ALL clips at the one time whilst making your edits, do the following:

1) create your multi-clip and place on timeline, and select it so it appears in the viewer.
2) switch your options (middle pull down button above screen) in the VIEWER window to ‘OPEN’ as opposed to ‘SYNC OFF’ or any other selections.

Now you should be able to scroll along (or play) your multi-clip on the timeline and see the CANVAS window play the current selected clip and the VIEWER play all the synced clips.

Cheers.

Cheers,
Tom

Camera Operator – Editor – Motion Graphics
(https://www.tomdavid.com.au)

[Tom David]

“If you’re going to be using a lot of motion graphics integration with your footage, it might be a good idea to work (or batch transcode) in a smoother 4:2:2 codec (uncompressed, ProRes, etc.) rather than stay in the native 4:2:0 XDCAM format like most highly sub-sampled codecs work.”

I have noticed something odd in Final Cut re down conversion to SD from the XDCam 1080p25 codec shot on the EX1:

– if I batch convert clips to SD (DV Pal or 8 Bit Uncompressed) I get an unsubtle venetian-blind effect on clean lines (like shelves or car grills etc).

– however if I render clips manually from FCP sequences using the same settings (from what I can tell), I get a clean down conversion with NO venetian-blind effect – and the picture looks great.

Does anybody know why this would be so?

Primarily, I want to be able to do high-quality mass down conversions off all my shots to SD after a days shooting on the EX1 1080p25 format, but as above, the FCP batch conversion feature isn’t cutting it – and manual export of each clip off the sequence is not practical.

Does anybody have any solutions for mass export HD to quality SD clips?

Cheers,
Tom

Camera Operator – Editor – Motion Graphics
(https://www.tomdavid.com.au)

[Tom David]

I use a 2TB Taurus 3.5″ Dual Bay SATA Enclosure. This is basically a portable dual hard drive enclosure. It operates in two modes:

RAID 0 – Hard drive appears as one single 2GB drive on your desktop, or you can ‘stripe’ the drives for data transfer speeds (ie: split data across two drives, thus becomes a 1TB drive). Though if one drive fails when striping, the data on other drive can often be left useless – though again, suits high speed transfers and data rates.

RAID 1 – Mirrors info on two drives. If error on one, replace with identical make and model for unit to rebuild and sync up the drives again.

This uses firewire 800 / 400 / USB2 – so will leave your SxS slot for card transfers.

Hope this helps. If looking for info on the web, it has a silver enclosure to fit in with MAC design.

Cheers,
Tom

Camera Operator – Editor – Motion Graphics
(https://www.tomdavid.com.au)

[Tom David]

Definately get yourself some sort of external RAID 1 drive – you’ll need the extra space (I think we shot eight hours of 35M/Bit XDCam to total around 350MB), but also you’ll need the extra data reliability those drives provide.

Cheers,
Tom

Camera Operator – Editor – Motion Graphics
(https://www.tomdavid.com.au)