Great news for Sony Xdcam EX1 and EX3 users, Apple Mac’s Snow Leopard Sony SxS express card bug now fixed and is available for download from Sony site. Previously the SxS card caused a kernal panic on both the Macbook pro laptops with the express slot.

Now users who have upgraded to Snow Leopard and Final Cut Studio can now use this application with less of a concern and worry prior to this fix.

Download link for updated Sony SxS driver can be found here:

http://www.sony.ca/promedia/drivers.htm

Matt Davis has found that Apple Mac’s Snow Leopard doesn’t like the official Sony SxS express cards and its use can lead to a kernal panic on both the Macbook pro laptops and it maybe replicated on the Macpro desktops as well.

As for what to do please follow the information I have given or e-mailed you to work around this.

More information can be found at http://mattdavis.wordpress.com/2009/08/28/how-to-kill-a-snow-leopard/

The new release of Final Cut Pro 7 part of the Final Cut Studio. While FCP 7 has updated the log and transfer interface to work directly with P2, RED and AVCintra, plus an automated import mode as soon as the card/drive mounts.

This is not the same for the Sony Xdcam EX cameras, the workflow for FCP 6 is identical to FCP 7 and will consist of installing the called Clip Browser software from Sony and the SxS card drivers. In addition you will need XDCAM Transfer utility to playback the video clips, read/amend the clip metadata, create subclips, and re-wrap them into MOV files for editing with Final Cut Pro.

More information about our Sony EX1/ EX3 training courses can be found at:

http://www.hd-productions.biz/wp/sony-ex1ex3-xdcamex-hd-camera-training-updated/

Today I had a look at the new Final Çut Studio as it now simply called, not version 3 as expected. I was invited courtesy of MacVideo to have a look at the new features demonstrated by Apple Staff, specialising in Video market.

Whilst it boasts over a 100 new features native transfer support in Final Cut Pro 7, one of them is log and transfers for XDcam Ex,you still have to use Sony’s own Log and Transfer Utility. But if you are using Panasonic P2, AVCintra or RED no problem and can be set to locate and ingest a mounted card.

We had a brief overview of the new Pro Res Codecs of which there are three including
Pro Res 4444 that carries an alpha channel as well another for multicam use and proxy version of suitable for offline laptop editing.

New speed change or time remapping features, plus i Chat theatre integration, background transcoding with ability to cluster or network distributed encoding in the background whilst you still edit.

Motion 3 supports shadows, multiple light reflections as well plus loads of other stuff already featured online or commented about. But a reminder this version is only Intel compatible and will not run on a G5 or G4 processor.

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Ted Schilowitz of Red, former AJA employee discusses the impact and form factor of the 4K resolution beyond HD camera. The Red ONE as it is known shoot up to ten times normally 720p, five and half times 1080 and 4 times 2K resolution. Ted is known as the leader of the Digital Rebellion or in the case of Red, Leader of Digital Revolution.

This camera is seen to be a digital replacement for 35mm film and can shoot to frame size approximately 65mm of image per frame.

See Ted talking at NAB 2007

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