Re: THE definitive EX1 & EX3 training videos?

Brain,

I'm glad you are not only using your EX1 camcorders, but able to work with them and enjoying the experience.

Until NAB 2009, I have been under the impression, from those at Apple(I won't mention names to protect the guilty!), that FCP would first have to transcode a clip shot with an EX1/3 to quicktime BEFORE you could edit with that file! That is what I mean by "editing natively"... FCP didn't allow the editing of MXF files or EX1/3 files without a transcode to QT first. Now, I do know from several of my buddies using the system, and my own VERY limited use, that the trancode process went fairly quickly, but the fact that it had to happen at all didn't sit well with me...

Sony now has a third party vendor/partner that has a program called (please forgive me if this is inaccurate, again, I migrated AWAY from FCP for various reasons 4 years ago!) "CineMon." It is a "plug in" that runs "invisibly," that allows FCP users to use and edit MXF files and those created by EX1/3 cameras WITHOUT having to transcode to a Quicktime file. In fact CineMon works with other formats inside FCP too! Now, FCP users won't have to create or transcode MOST common file acquisition types to QT to edit them! That's fantastic.

I too often wonder why one would take a recorded file, inflate it to "ProRes" and then work with that file. If it was shot 4:2:0, how on Earth is ProRes making it better, really? Material is only as good as it is caputred... you can't make it better by transcoding it! Now, CAPTURING material with the ProRes codec, is a different story, that I get. If you go out of your EX camera with the HD SDI, and CAPTURE it into FCP and use that codec, than I "get" the value of that.

Curt Pair
Picture This Productions
Sony ICE Team
F900/F350/700/EX1/EX3/D790/D600
Adobe Premiere Pro CS3 HD/Matrox
Phoenix, AZ