Thanks Chris I'll search for that.

Sorry about posting in the wrong forum. I think my dyslexia is rearing its ugly head again.

Dear Stuart,

Go to post 78 in the following link:

http://www.dvinfo.net/conf/canon-xh-series-hdv-camcorders/126811-xh-custom-presets-download-library-copy-6.html

Thanks Dan!

That's just what I was looking for :)

Excellente!

I highly recommend that you initialize your SD card in the camera.

This is preferred over initializing it in your computer as the SD card will be properly formatted. Your computer may (or may not) initialize the card in the proper format.

This is described on page 128 of the XL H1 manual (English Version).

This process will erase any and all data on your SD Card.

1. Turn on your XL H1, by setting the Power Wheel to "VCR/Play".

2. Set the Tape\Card Swith to "Card".

3. Open the Menu (by pressing the Menu Button).

4. Select "Card Operations".

5. Select "Initialize".

6. Select "Execute".

7. Select "Yes" in the confirmation screen.

8. Wait for the initialization to complete.

9. Then remove your SD card and insert it into your computers SD Card Reader's slot.

10. Then, using standard computer procedures, access the SD Card, create a new Directory named "PRESET".

(I will be happy to describe the "standard computer procedures", if requested.)

11. Then copy your Custom Presets to the "PRESET folder.

12. When the flashing light stops, you can then remove your SD Card and re-insert it into your camera.

13. You may then choose to copy up to 6 of your favorite Custom Presets into the internal memory positions of your XL H1.

14. When done, be sure to restore the "Tape\Card" switch to "Tape" for normal camera operation.


Dan,

Could you please describe the “standard computer procedures” that are required to create and copy the Custom Presets to the PRESET folder. (# 10 & #11 in your 14 step procedure). I want to make sure I do this correctly.

Thanks

I Have made a movie on Custom Presets. In this movie you can see the difference between 18 Custom Presets for the Canon XL-H1. Yo can find the movie at :Canon XL-H1 Custom Presets Movie on Vimeo (http://vimeo.com/2063462)

Freddie

Thanks so much for your help.

Denny

You are most welcome.

Freddie.

Freddie,

Could you tell me please when you recorded all your clips for each pre-set did you use a manual white balance, auto or bright sunlight 5,600k setting?

Regards

Mick

The setting was 5,600k

Freddie

Many thanks for that


Mick

Can someone please be so kind of pointing me to the panavison preset ? I can´t find it. Thanks.

Can someone please be so kind of pointing me to the panavison preset ? I can´t find it. Thanks.

Preset 10 - it is named Disjecta

On the first page of this thread

I'm no expert with Excel, but here's a spreadsheet covering all of the user-submitted XL H1 custom preset files that I've been able to dig up around here. So far there are seven from Alister Chapman; two each from Luis de la Cerda, Steven Dempsey and Lauri Kettunen; and one each from Oleg Kalyan, Daniel Epstein and Bill Taka. The sheet is called "v.20060604" in order to keep track of its date. I hope it grows up to be a lot bigger!

The actual .CPF files to follow in other posts below.

*updated 2006 / 05 / 20 -- added B&WJECTA and OLEGWARM*
*updated 2006 / 05 / 30 -- added DVXMATCH, EOSPHOTO, NATURALO and OUTSIDEN*
*updated 2006 / 06 / 04 -- added PANALOOK

This post (and the Excel file) is 3 years old. Is there an updated one floating around somewhere?

Hey all,

Just got my XH A1S today--I'm stoked.

I loaded all 18 presets onto the Canon-provided SD card into a PRESETS folder. The camera shows "DATA ERR" for 1-7, but 8-18 are fine. Any ideas?

The camera's quite sensitive to anything out of the ordinary on the SD card, I think that includes the archive and read only attributes.

If it helps, there's a tasty video here that shows 18 presets in action : Canon XL-H1 Custom Presets Movie on Vimeo
and there's a whitepaper on Canon's website describing the different options available in custom presets : http://downloads.canon.com/cpr/software/video/XLH1_OverallImageSetup.pdf .

:)

I have an HVX200 preset I created for my XHA1. Since the settings adjustments are different and the presets are incompatible I cant use it with my newly purchased XLH1. The way I set up the HVX preset was on multi-camera shoot. The production company I mainly freelance for has an HVX and we had it and my XHA1 hooked up to a calibrate-able production monitor. We aimed both cameras at the same scene and tweaked settings while swapping back an fourth between the two cameras on the monitor until they reasonably matched. It worked out pretty well. I can probably do the same thing with my boss's HVX at the office on a test pattern. Is this a good method for creating a preset? Does anyone know if there is an HVX200 setting around for download for the XLH1?

Stephen,

According to the Excel Spreadsheets for each camera's presets a general rule for the color settings is that the XH A1 is 4x's higher than the XL H1. As an example:

XH Custom Preset
PANALOOK NAME
CINE2 GAMMA
LOW KNEE
MIDDLE BLACK
-7 MASTER PED.
-1 SETUP LEVEL
1 SHARPNESS
MIDDLE H DTL FREQ
0 DTL HV BAL
0 CORING
OFF NR
OFF NR2
CINE2 COLOR MAT.
4 COLOR GAIN
0 COLOR PHASE
8 R GAIN
8 G GAIN
12 B GAIN
0 RG MATRIX
0 RB MATRIX
0 GR MATRIX
0 GB MATRIX
0 BR MATRIX
0 BG MATRIX

XLH1 Custom Preset
PANALOOK NAME
CINE2 GAMMA
LOW KNEE
MIDDLE BLACK
-7 MASTER PED.
-1 SETUP LEVEL
1 SHARPNESS
MIDDLE H DTL FREQ
0 DTL HV BAL
0 CORING
OFF NR
OFF NR2
CINE2 COLOR MAT.
1 COLOR GAIN
0 COLOR PHASE
2 R GAIN
2 G GAIN
3 B GAIN
0 RG MATRIX
0 RB MATRIX
0 GR MATRIX
0 GB MATRIX
0 BR MATRIX
0 BG MATRIX

You can download the Excel Spreadsheets to compare them yourself. XH A1 here: http://www.dvinfo.net/forum/canon-xh-series-hdv-camcorders/126811-xh-custom-presets-download-library-copy.html
It's the first attached file in the first post.

XL H1 here: http://www.dvinfo.net/forum/canon-xl-h-series-hdv-camcorders/66776-xl-h1-custom-presets-download-library.html
Same deal.

OpenOffice.org - The Free and Open Productivity Suite (http://www.openoffice.org/) is a free program that'll allow you to view these.

Could you please post your HVX200 preset for the XH A1? Did you use the Cinelike D gamma & Cine-like color matrix on the HVX? Thanks.

Hi,

so I downloaded all the Custom Preset files, which I would like to thank for.
But the first 7 01-07 seem to have some kind of a issue. When I try access the files I receive a Data Error.
Now the rest work fine! Any advice? Thanks