Various XDCAM EX posts from 2008

[Oyvind Stokkan]

Hey guys

We are working with 24p and 25p together with 50p. Is there a way without using Cinema Tools to convert the files that are 720p50 to 720p25 at half speed? The sound doesn't matter..

In Adobe Premiere you can just right click and select interpret footage, and select 25p on the 50p clips and boom, they are slow motion 25p..

This is missing from Final Cut.. Any tips?

[Dan Wells]

I shoot with the EX1, and I edit in FCP 6, but I'm working on a project that someone else is editing, and the other editor uses FCP 5.1.4. I am thinking that I'll load all the clips into FCP 6 on my machine and transcode them to a codec that the older version can handle... My thought is Apple Intermediate Codec - is that a good way to go? Uncompressed HD is too big to send, even though we're mailing hard drives around - we're mailing portable drives, not XServe RAIDs... As I understand it, old Final Cut doesn't like ProRes 422 any better than it does XDCam EX - is that true, or can I just go to ProRes?

-Dan

[Michael C. Williams]

I'm currently searching for freelance cameramen in Isreal to shoot some footage for a program I'm bidding on. Please feel free to email me directly from my profile page.

Thanks,
Michael C. Williams
VP - InstructoVision
Kent, WA

[Sebastian Linda]

without rendering.

I have a Mac Book Pro and i can put both kind of files in one timeline without rendering.
But 25p and 50p together on a power mac does not work.

One format must be rendered and it take yeeeaars...

so any suggestions how i can work with both formats in one sequence without rendering?

[Sebastien Thomas]

Hi,

I work as a DJ in a party on a boat (peniche) in Paris on saturday night. I want to have some views on the seine when the boat is moving but I will not have much time to do that.
I'm looking for someone who could help me. Boat runs from 23:00 to 0:00.
I will have my EX1 with tripod.
Then the help is welcome to stay for the party all night. I can provide alcool too and few people on the guestlist :)
The boat is in the 16th sector in front of the "maison de la radio".

Please mail/call me at +33 6 8232 1437
Thanks.

Pour les francophones :
J'ai besoin d'aide pour tourner des plan sur une peniche samedi soir.
La peniche est dans le 16eme face a la maison de la radio et partira de 23h a minuit. rien de compliqué, des plan de la seine et des passages sous les pont.
J'aurais ma EX1 et un pieds. Merci de me contacter au 0682321437
ps : je peux offrire quelques guestlist pour la soirée si vous voullez pas venir seul :)

[Ray Bell]

Gates, the underwater housing maker, has just posted a video test of
the EX1 underwater ( ~70 feet + )

This was a test of the new housing, the low light capability and white balance of the EX1 camera....

Looks like it passed ...

http://www.gateshousings.com/EX1videotest.html

[Torv Carlsen]

I'm not sure how many of you are aware that Sony offers an extended warranty for the EX1 (and other cameras that cost less than $10K), and I was a bit late myself to find out about this. The product is similar to AppleCare and costs only $160. Here's the Sony link:

http://pro.sony.com/bbsc/ssr/micro-x...SPSCAM10RSEW3/

I know a lot of dealers sell the Mack extended warranty which costs a bloody fortune and has questionable integrity, in my opinion. Given the price of the EX1 this Sony extended warranty is a no-brainer!

[Gints Klimanis]

I've been exploring a number of portable cheap monitor solutions (portable DVD players with A/V in) using the composite video output. Has anyone noticed that the video is flipped horizontally on the composite output but not on the component output? For the composite output, the menu overlay is not flipped - only the video from the lens. Weird.

Would anyone have a contact at Sony for bug submissions?

[Alessandro Zumstein]

From Film Tv Video

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[Leonard Levy]

I seem to have lost the plastic case for my 16G SxS card . Does anyone know if you can get an extra from Sony or anyone else?

- Lenny Levy

[Ruben Torrejon]

Hi,

In a couple of weeks I'll be filming with my EX1 some Blue screen shots. I'd like to have some advice about best setup and PP settings for Blue Screen. We'll be filming in a dedicated Chroma Key Studio (only blue screen, not green). Also, as I'll be using the uncompressed HD-SDI out (to PC with Xena LHe and Cineform), is it possible to use the live HD-SDI output and, at the same, record to the internal cards (as a backup)?.

Thank you, any advice is most welcome.

Ruben

[Paul Dhadialla]

Hi all,
Is anyone shooting 30P and outputting to 60i for BD Disk and 30P for DVD

How are your results with rapid motion
Thanks! :)
Paul

[J. Wilbur]

I remember reading a thread a few months back about someone experiencing one side of the image rather soft but i cannot find it.
Anyone else experience this problem?

[Ray Bell]

Here's a nice site that will let you examine the EX3 up close...

Best I've seen of the camera...

enjoy

http://www.sony.ca/xdcamex/rot_xdcam_ex_2/index.html

[Craig Hollenback]

Has anyone come up with an delicate method to remove the sunshade from the Sony .8WA adapter so that it can be used with a mattebox?
About to get out the saw,
Craig