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July 27th, 2005, 10:15 AM | #16 | |
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July 27th, 2005, 12:26 PM | #17 |
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Hallelujah!
Wow, what a time/brain saver!
Hats off to the developers. This reminds me of the MIDI sysex programs I used to use to store my complex synth settings. It's great to take a process that's cumbersome and slow, and make it very useful and practical. Before, I had to go to the trouble of re-working Matt Cherry's template into a portable form (business card size) to carry a ton of settings with me. Now it's academic, but feel free to use it if you want: http://www.geocities.com/amjoyce2004
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July 27th, 2005, 01:39 PM | #20 | |
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July 27th, 2005, 06:12 PM | #21 |
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Hi guys,
I glad your all enjoying the application. I'll let you know why I decided with the standard presets only. Inside the camera is a processor which handles all the operation instructions. Imagine all the external functions you see on the camera as a computer keyboard. The keys are not directly connected with the function they perform, but rather, send a signal to the processor to perform the action. When you move the dial to a particular setting, the processor will react to the key sequence sent to it. Thats why in green box mode, a lot of the 'key' functions dont work. When you select Ext. Cont. mode, the processor ignores ALL the keys and expects direction from the firewire cable. Consider each time you change the dial position as hitting the reset switch on your PC. I can set anything in the camera, however, when you move the dial, you reset the camera processor, and it will look at the dial position to ascertain the correct startup controls and settings. There are a few resident features that do not get reset, primarily, the presets. I hope this helps. steve |
July 27th, 2005, 06:24 PM | #22 |
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Dear Booth Monkey,
I just had a fun time using your program, XL2 Presets Manager, and Canon's program, DV-PC. In about twenty minutes time I was able to capture footage of the same scene with 6 presets applied. I loaded the first three with XL2 Preset Manager, close the program and turned the Power Dial to a record mode, opened DV-PC, and recorded a 30 second clip directly to disk. I then invoked another of the presets downloaded in the cam, and recorded another 30 second clip. After recording the third preset's clip, I rotated the Power Dial back to EXT CONT, launched your program, downloaded three more presets and repeated the capture process to acquire clips for each. Then I could evaluate them all at the same time in Vegas by just placing them on tracks named for the preset and muting all but the track I wanted to view. Great fun and way easier than doing it all manually. Thanks again Steve! And how about telling us how you got that tag-line below your name, is there a story there?
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>And how about telling us how you got that tag-line below your name, is there a story there?
And pictures too! steve |
July 28th, 2005, 11:35 AM | #24 |
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Steve,
I just occured to me that from yesterdays multi-preset capture, I think I'm going to create a Presets Smartbook. I'm going to select a screen grab from each of the Preset video files, and then do an "ALT/PrintScreen" on your XL2 Presets Manager program showing the same preset, then place both in a Word document and print on 8x10 photo paper, whole punch, and place them all in a binder. That way I have not only a name for the Preset, but an example I can relate to of what the preset looks like. Just an idea.
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No problemo, Greg.
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July 30th, 2005, 02:08 AM | #26 | |
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August 1st, 2005, 01:26 PM | #27 |
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I have been insanely busy but this is what I have always wanted. I prolly have 50+ presets I use for different things. I havent had a chance to mess around with the software but are the preset files something that can be posted and downloaded? If not, that is the next step. As always, I will share all my settings openly and for FREE....
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Thanks Ash, and drop Steve a line and tell him and Blue Barn how much you like the XL2 Presets Manager.
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Hey Ash, see this thread:
http://www.dvinfo.net/conf/showthread.php?t=48287 As Patrick has pointed out, several of those are indeed your settings. You should probably contact me by email! |
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