New EX3 promotional Video from Sony
 

New EX3 promotional Video from Sony

http://pro.sony.com/bbsc/ssr/micro-x...ideo0417.shtml

Ex Seminar At Birns This Sat 5/17
 

If you are in LA,this Saturday, Sony will be here talking about the EX-1 and post production work flow. It's from 9 to about 1pm, food and drinks, free parking here at the ArcLight. You can sign up on the web site www.birnsandsawyer.com or call us at 323-466-8211

Yes, it's FREE

Jim Martin
Birns & Sawyer

Is there Raylight-type OSX app that creates ref movies from EX1 .mp4 files?
 

I am about to do my first project with an EX1 and had a question about workflow. When I've worked with the HVX, I always copy the contents of the P2 cards to an external drive and then use Raylight to create reference movies that can be used in FCP. I'd like to do the same sort of thing with the EX1 but was wondering whether this is currently possible. I want to avoid doubling up my footage, i.e. having both the SxS card contents and imported, self-contained Quicktime movies on my hard drive. From what I understand, the XDCAM FCP transfer tool turns the EX1's .mp4 files into self-contained .mov files and does not have the capability to produce reference files like Raylight does with P2 .mxf files. If I'm correct about this, is there an OSX app out there that can generate reference movies from EX1 .mp4 files (and, while I'm on the subject, can, like Raylight, export an edited movie back out to a card)?

Red Rock M2 with EX1 ?
 

I just tried my Red Rock M2 with my Sony EX1. Today, I received the 77->72mm step down ring that mounts the 72mm HD macro lens to the EX1. There is a lot of vignetting, but I assume this is normal. After I acheive backfocus on the unmotored glass, it seems there is about 1/4" space between the rubber hood (which I have not been able to fit over the 72mm lens). Will I need a longer hood or a spacer tube?

Also, the camera seems to line up, but it could be a little off vertically? Is a shim kit needed?

removal of Sony WA sunshade
 

I will very soon need to remove the permanently attached sunshade from my Sony .8x WA adapter. When asked, a Sony factory tech said that people are cutting it off. Has anyone here done this? I used to own an fx shop so I do some thoughts and tools to do it, but haven't yet taken the plunge until the redrock mattebox arrives.
It would be nice if there was a less barbaric method other than cutting.
Thoughts? Thanks, Craig

Image quality difference HDSDI <-> captured SxS content
 

Hi there,

I know the HDSDI output is full 10bit 4:2:2 quality, while the SxS card content is HD in 35Mbit long GOP compressed.

Here is my question:
How big is the visual picture quality difference really ?
Considering HQ 1080p25 recording mode of the EX1 can you actually see any difference ?
I find the content coming off from the SxS cards already very good...

Is there anyone who can tell from experience ?

I don't have any grade-1 HDSDI monitoring equipment to test it myself - that's the reason for my question.

Thanks,
Ulli

Sony QC now on the ball
 

Famous last words but have just had a new EX1 sent to me for a particular project and it is A1 first class. Firmware 1.05 seemingly no vignette/backfocus issues etc it seems to be a good one straight out of the box. Will now compare with present February model firmware 1.03. Sony can deliver the goods.

Still July for EX3?
 

Just curious if anyone in or around the industry has heard the latest.

Does the EX1 fit the Porter case?
 

I am trying to find out if the standard Porter Case will carry a stripped down EX1. Ideally I could fit my EX1 and a 17 inch Mac Book Pro but this seems like a tight fit. If any has any knowledge on this please let me know.

Thanks
Dasher

Archiving For Avid Symphony
 

Dear EX1 Users,

Firstly what an amazing camera you have. I'd really love to buy the camera, but I work freelance a lot for a major broadcaster, which edits on AVID Symphony. I work in the field and send them back tapes. They then digitise the footage in at a lower resolution and do 100% resolution conform when everything is edited and signed off.

I just spoke to the guys in the machine room and they felt that they EX1 would be a problem, as conforming from blu-ray or XDCAM optical disks would be a problem, it has to be done visually. He seemed to think that there was no timecode on the disks?? It a real shame, as it would be great to buy this camera, but I need to be able to use it on productions to justify the cost. Any suggestions would be warmly welcome.

All the best.

JJB

XDCAM Frame rate converter
 

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?

Need to send EX1 footage to someone with Final Cut 5.1.4
 

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

EX1 users in Isreal
 

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

25p and 50p not in one sequence in fcp...
 

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?

need little help in Paris, Saturday the 7th night
 

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 :)

EX1 for underwater work...
 

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

Extended Warranty for EX1
 

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!

Component out flipped?
 

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?

Some translated PMW-EX3 german rewievs
 

From Film Tv Video

http://translate.google.ch/translate...hl=en&ie=UTF-8


And Slashcam

http://translate.google.ch/translate...hl=en&ie=UTF-8

http://translate.google.ch/translate...hl=en&ie=UTF-8

need plastic case for SxS card
 

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

Advice for Blue Screen and HD-SDI recording
 

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

Anyone shooting 30P --> 60i BD/30P DVD
 

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

Half image blur
 

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?

EX3, Get up close and personal...
 

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

Sony .8WA adapter sunshade removal
 

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

Samples using LitePanels Micro and diffusion filter
 

this short 1080i video used the litepanels micro led light on hotshoe from about 4 feet from table with the micro's diffusion filter attached to led light.

the effect is what some on forum wanted with a medium level of softening.
similar to the effect between a zeiss softar 1 and 2 filter.

for products shots, this diffusion filter maybe too much.

http://www.vimeo.com/1196896

paul

EX1 Tips From Sony UK
 

I'm sure this link has already been listed somewhere herein before, but in case it's not, now it is.

http://www.sony.co.uk/biz/view/ShowC...=1205831217039

Zylight Z90 runtime on battery at full blast
 

Just got a Zylight Z90 and a Tekkeon MP3450 battery friday and ran it at daylight and full power on a fully charged battery.

after about 100-105 minutes at near full power, the lights went out. poofed!
lucky for me, i had the litepanels micro as backup, although the light from Zylight Z90 with the anton bauer softbox was so much more pleasing.

anyone has this battery and can share you run time?

paul

FCP audio synch
 

shot 720/25p, editing native, changed audio in some sequences to stereo pair, pulled all sequences into a new master seq, added some text graphics on top, when unrendered, audio goes out of synch after a graphic - just like a DV sequence..... but unlike a DV seq, where the audio is synched once rendered, this audio remains OOS in exported FCP ref file, and thus in WMV transcode in Episode.

Exported sequences' audio was not set to dual mono - would this have been the problem? Any other checks to ensure synch?

Do you have EX1 in NY/Northern NJ? Lets' jam!
 

:)

OK, I'm taking a delivery (probably one of the first?) of this Decklink HD Extreme capture card on Fri Jun 27th:

http://blackmagic-design.com/products/hd/

Will test it with Sony V1U over HDMI, as well as analog in.

If you have Sony EX1, join in and we'll test the HD-SDI route as well.

Green screen set up is ready, it'll be especially interesting to see how EX1's footage stands against V1U for keying.

Email me from this forum, or from here:

http://primehd.net/contact.htm

Cheers!

Ex3 Hotshoe Adaptors
 

Hi,
Would anybody have any ups on hotshoe 2 x extenders for the EX3 to increase zoom?
Cheers, Mick

Does P+S Mini work correctly with EX-1?
 

Does anyone know if the P+S mini adapter will work with an Ex-1?

By work - I mean does it have an achromat that is designed for the EX-1 lens and will stay sharp at wide open apertures.

Lenny Levy

green-screen plus wobble board test promo
 

I'm loving this cam at the moment.
http://www.vimeo.com/1274572

New Picture Profile in Recipes
 

Just posted a new balanced and saturated PP in the Recipes sticky, for those that might want to give it a try.

Real Color 1 and Real Color 2 are color matrix settings to raise saturation to or near maximum while holding all vector angle as much as possible.

These settings give a fully saturated look without color shifts on my EX1. YMMV. Let me know how it works for you.

(It does not, unfortunately, address the reddish black problem)

New User Questions
 

I am finally starting to use my new EX1 and I noticed that the first 30 minutes contained a lot of wavy footage when panning. I set everything to default and auto mode and noticed that the images waved when panning - even slow panning produced this. It happens sometimes when tilting but not as bad. Anyone know why.

I also noticed it here on this person's video:

http://hawaiigoesfishing.com/videos/hgf_103_ulua.mov

and this one's:

http://www.vimeo.com/1230454

Is it normal for the image to wave when you pan? Is there any way to set the camera to avoid it?

Could it be normal when OIS is on?

Also, when using Clip Browser, I can't find a setting to play all the clips in the preview window. Every time I start and stop the camera it creates a new clip folder that can only be played one at a time in Clip Browser as far as I can tell. That is really annoying.

John

Sony WA pics
 

Can someone with the Sony WA please post a screen gram of the EX1 full wide with and without the attached Sony WA...I have searched and have not found this, lots of discussion but no direct compare pics...If there is a thread I missed by all means just point me the right way.


Thanks!

Rycote Softie Mount versus Rode SM5
 

XDCAM EX Capture and Back-ups
 

might be of some interest....

http://www.sony.co.uk/biz/view/ShowC...=1209376196252

EX1 LCD settings
 

I thought for sure I'd read some recipes for improved LCD settings on this board but can't seem to find them anywhere. Can anyone point me the right direction and/or repost?

Thanks.

SXS Media Dump TO SATA Drives Through MBP Via USB 2.0 or Firewire?
 

I'm not sure how this goes but I started another thread here:

http://dvinfo.net/conf/showthread.php?t=126358

and I need to get it sorted ASAP

Anyone want to take a shot at it?