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Boiler Manuals. Cable Box Manuals. With due care and attention the F handles many jobs very well; in controlled environments it is capable of recording beautiful images. In the photographs seen here, shooting in sunny France at an industrial complex, the sun had created a band of light causing blown highlights on surface areas.

Unable to move the subject we erected poly sheeting to diffuse the sun, bringing the contrast back to a more acceptable level.

Travelling :. With documentary and commercial work, traveling can be a challenge and depending on the job, we try to travel as light as possible. Traveling by aircraft, we will not put any expensive small items in the hold, using Flight Cases for the big jobs and a range of Pelican cases with padlocks for general carriage. Breaking the camera down into lens, viewfinder, and body wrapped in bubble wrap, I would sometimes use a non-descript over-the-shoulder bag, as branded models can attract unwanted attention.

Fortunately we usually have at least three people on our trips so we decant plenty equipment between us. Our audio engineer, Keith, favors a roll-on backpack, although he did get a bit of hassle for over packing it once.

In regards to batteries, we carry the printed literature that comes with IDX products, proving that they are cleared for air transportation. Audio :. There are various options, including four channels, but most of our work means we mix down through a field mixer, such as the Sound Devices , plugged into the two XLR inputs at the rear of the camera.

Occasionally I would use the on-board 5 pin stereo mic to record ambient sound. Protection during use :. In one situation we were underground in a cave system of Lime, while dumper trucks were tipping lime rocks onto the conveyor system. That whole section of the cave became enshrouded in Lime dust lime can etch glass but the Storm Jacket kept the camera protected.

For other working conditions I did occasionally keep the camera with lens attached, but viewfinder removed in a Pelican case. Colour space arguments regarding v aside, we do a fair deal of chromakey work for all kinds of projects and in general, we were able to get pretty good keys using the F Following the usual practice for small format limitations, every effort is made to control what the background foreground relationship will be, with tinting, grading and other applications helping along the way.

At the end of the day, if we were required to shoot a complex piece of chromakey work for a larger budget commission, then we would not use the F In a nutshell, if we could get away with it… then we used it, if not… we would hire the appropriate tool for the job.

Editing :. While you can connect the camera via firewire FAM to the computer, the very handy Sony U1 drive makes life much easier as transfer times are twice the speed of FAM. Our work flow took on a whole new dimension and life became so much more enjoyable. At this present time our commercial work still ends up on standard definition DVDs, TV commercials or the web.

Sony Disc :. This increase in efficiency will result in shorter production times leading to higher profitability. An auto-focus function is built-in. In addition, both camcorder and decks incorporate a down-conversion capability that allows material recorded in the MPEG HD format to be converted to DV signals and output via the i.

Page Connecting Connecting Note Production of some of the peripherals and related devices described in this chapter has been discontinued. For advice about choosing devices, please contact your Sony dealer or a Sony sales representative. Connecting an External Video Monitor When using a Sony liquid crystal display monitor, make the connections as follows. Note To insert the disc correctly, make sure that the camcorder is in the upright position the grip upside, the bottom downside.

Unloading a disc With the power supply on, press the EJECT button to open the disc compartment lid and eject the disc, then remove the disc. For details of menu operations, see page Page Basic Procedure For Shooting Salvage is still required to recover the clips for which recording did not end normally.

The salvage message will appear again when that disc is inserted again, or when the camcorder is powered on again. Note If salvage processing is not done, sections which were recorded normally can be played back, but no new recording can be done on the disc.

To do this, you must first set up the VDR section to enable manual adjustment of the audio recording level see page Note There are restrictions on the recording formats that can be combined on a single disc.

If the error message occurs repeatedly, contact your Sony dealer. To adjust the white balance It is necessary to adjust the white balance each time the principal lighting source changes. Page 56 If any of the above error messages is displayed, retry the white balance adjustment. Contact your Sony dealer if this message continues to appear even after the white balance has been adjusted again.

Page Adjusting The Iris 1. Even if the reference value is changed, it reverts to the standard value every time the power is turned on. To change the reference value, make sure the camcorder is not in the process of setting the shutter speed.

Page 62 To lock the timecode to an external source You can synchronize the internal timecode generator of this camcorder with an external generator for the regeneration of an external timecode. Wait until the reference camcorder becomes stable a state where a normal picture appears on the viewfinder screen or the LCD monitor , and then connect the other camcorders. Deleting Clips With this camcorder you can delete clips one at a time, in sequence from the last recorded clip, or you can delete all clips in a single operation.

To delete the last recorded clip Proceed as follows. The light switch must also be set to ON. With these settings, the light turns on and off automatically. Recording in Interval Rec mode stops. The menu disappears, and the display indicating the current status of the camcorder appears along the top and bottom of the screen. Settings made in Picture Cache mode are maintained until changed. MXF to C For this reason, two discs can contain clips with the same names.

The automatic title generation function allows you to assign titles to all of the clips on several discs, which facilitates clip management. To set the initial value of the clip title serial Do not create this folder yourself on a computer. Page Thumbnail Search Thumbnail Search Searching Using Thumbnails To display the thumbnail images of all clips on the disc, and cue up a desired clip, proceed as follows.

At any point in the procedure you can return to the previous screen with this operation. Note The factory default setting is to use the first frame of a clip as its thumbnail image. This switches to the screen for selecting a clip for changing the index frame. Page Clip List Playback and display a new thumbnail screen showing the first frame in each segment. This function allows rapid searching of the scenes within a particular clip.

The expand function can be applied up to three times 12 divisions, divisions, and divisions. Name of loaded clip list Sub clip information date and time of creation, initial timecode, playback time Currently selected sub clip Recording date and time Total playback time of of selected sub clip sub clips in a clip list a If the clip list has a title page 71 , the title is displayed enclosed in You return to the thumbnail screen, and a lock icon appears on the thumbnail of the selected clip to show that it is locked.

Scene selection is a function which allows you to select material clips from the material recorded on a disc and perform cut editing. You can do this by operating on this unit only. A clip contains the material between a recording start point and a recording end point. Clips have numbers beginning with C, for example C Recording start point of Recording end clip 2 point of clip



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