[William Urschel]

Gentlemen! Gratefully, I stand corrected!

[William Urschel]

Question? Why just the EX3? Isn’t there a BIG market out there for EX1 and EX1r? I have an EX1, and would be VERY interested for your products suited to that!

[William Urschel]

Gentlemen: Thank you ALL for your thoughtful responses! I’ve been away ill, and am now sort of back, after purchasing the Nano last week after my last post.

To Michael Slowe – Thanks, if I had an Apple, I’d purchase the Bitvice then in a millisecond, but several years ago the cult at Apple really messed with me, and I swore off Apple forever (by the way, I’m SO happy with Boxx and Vista Professional 64k and (even!) Adobe PP CS4 I could bust!

To Tim, and thanks to you…..as I’ve posted elsewhere, I’m an expert home theater builder for myself and others for just short of a quarter of a century, and the blasted twitter shows up on all of my very carefully calibrated equipment, AND every one of my customers, without exception, unless they have a very low resolution piece of junk, and then, of course, other issues appear. Also, with HDV, I’ve used only interlaced. Also, the 1,700 hours I spent last year trying EVERYTHING included setting the EX1 at at least 5 different detail levels, and on at least two of them, the twitter on fine detail was pretty much taken care of and the pictures were smush.

And to Alister – yes, 720 makes for great SD renditions, but I hate loosing the beautiful detail possible with 1080 (even with the slight detail reduction after rendering out Adobe’s anti-flicker. And for shots in 720 involving a lot of momement, my absolute preference would be for 60p, but unfortunately, the BDrs I make (always using Verbatim) – too many of them will not playback reliably on customer’s machines, same machines which have no problem with anything else I make!

[William Urschel]

Rafael

Thank you – good point re selling! Probably get less than $400 a card (very poor return on investment!), but every little bit helps, doesn’t it!

Thanks again.

Bill Urschel

[William Urschel]

Thanks, Bill (Ravens)! Am NOT using in camera sharpening – spent 1,700 hours (!) last year, after hours, according to my time reports, doing everything I could think of to get rid of BD exhibited interline twitter and abomination of down rezzed DVDs. Finally gave up on DVDs entirely, except the beauties produced in downrezzing those resulting from HD on all my Sony HDV cameras!

Amoung my “experiements”, under very carefully controlled and documented conditions: 1)tried 5 different settings in PP for “detail” on the camera – finally removed twitter, but the pictures were so badly smeared that one of my old, 1991 Sony cameras
produced far, far better pictures (in SD, of course). And I purchased Vegas Pro (to try out versus Adobe Production Permium CS-3 and CS-4), and SEVEN other apps (darn, some were quite expensive!) for downrezzing from HD to SD and encoding for BD and DVD, all to NO avail. I have been using Cineform (last, Prospect 4k) for years, and to GREAT advantage in handling HDV editing enhancement and backup. But, absolutely surprising to me, going to Premier, Adobe Encoder, and Encore in CS-4, without Cineform, produced the least artifacting and interline twitter.

And by the way, I have had other editors check out my work flow, etc. to no avail.

I have come so close to getting rid of the EX-1, until I went to CS-4 without Cineform (Cineform wil not work with appropriate functionality on Premier Pro CS-4, though it will probably come back with CS-5!)- I’m still getting some interline twitter, but nothing like what I had before, and I am now partly satisfied with the results.

In any event, Bill, your comment about going to 100k with nano as a method of avoiding interline twitter – QUESTION – is this opinion based upon your or one of your compatriot’s actual experience? If so, then I don’t care what it costs, I’ll go for it, to end over a year of total grief and frustration for this otherwise absolutely superb camera!

Thanking you or any others for your informed response, I remain your humble servant,

Bill Urshel

[William Urschel]

How about cable runs up to 150!! With no repeaters or other possible signal corruptwers?

Please go to https://www.bluejeanscables.com and the page that opens should give you baskic info.

I didn’t believe it either, but they are awesom! I am running 75 foot Blue jeans Cable between receiver and projector in my largest home theater – NO issues. Its like the chicken soup – try it, you’ll like it!

Bill Urschel

[William Urschel]

I’ve been running Adobe CS3 and more recently, CS4 on Boxx computers built to run these and similar programs well, and have had very few problems, and none whatsoever, no crashes, etc., on the most recent Boxx 4850. They are designed for these applications, are highly reliable, and run like a good dream!

Of course they cost a LOT more than what you may be talking about – but no more, and probably less than comparable Apples.

I’m running Vista 64k with NVidia CX card, plenty of RAM, and Cineform, the latter, by the way, which I have had for years and would never be without.

My own experience, after many, many machines, for video editing,
has been exceedingly positive with Boxx, followed by Apple (yes, I did utilize them for several years until I was too frustrated by the non availability of certain applications and programs with which I was familiar), followed by HP. After many Dells, I just refuse ever to purchase another.

Good luck to you in your future choices, don’t give up, perfection with PCs is quite possible.

[William Urschel]

I have tried 6 devices, some shoulder, some shoulder waist, some waist, and the one short of a tripod or a good monopod that I like best is the Davis and Sanford by Tiffen Steady Stick – a great, non debilitating waist support, and I’ve steadily and cvery comfortably held the camera for four or five hours at a time – and I’m not htat strong! And it offers the greatest flexibility for vertical and horizontal pans while providing a solid platform. By the way, that CVP really attracted me until I found out that UK company evidently wanted hundreds of dollars to ship it – no way! Another really disappointing one for me was “The Gliders”, which has a myriad of adjustments, and potentially good support, but there is no way I can tighten up one critial fulcrum to keep the whole thing from flopping forward on its lower chest support – I may just have a defective product – I really would have liked to have seen it work. since it has both a lower chest support as well as the shoulder hook similar to the CVP, at a considerably lesser price, many more adjustments, and much more substantial construction – if only I could tighten up a “Pull and Turn” knob on it – and by the way, it was recommended VERY highly by a prominately respected videographer on this site!

[William Urschel]

To all of those who provided your expert experience, insights and advice, above, my many thanks again. But I am totally shut down at the moment, as I made the mistake of uninstalling CS3 and installing CS4, with the result that I now can transfer nothing from the timeline on Premiere, and Encore will not recognize ANY of my Blu-Ray burners. So after better than 12 years with Adobe, I am now going to attempt Sony’s Vegas installation – if and when I EVER manage to get ANYTHING to work, I will be back. I wish you all a Happy New Year, and greater success than I am having at the moment!

[William Urschel]

Noah:

Thanks much for your thoughts. My post was probably way too long, because I had mentioned that I purchased and tried out Vegas (actually, Vegas Pro 8), and one of the many other programs I purchased and tried out was Nero 8 Ultra – still, all the DVD’s on the EX-1 downrez to SD for DVD were garbage, when exactly the same
workflow out of the FX-1 to DVD looked great!

But I was not acquainted with Cinema Craft – sometime in the next week I’ll try the $2,000 version trial download, and post the results here of how that performed. Thanks again.