how to load scene files from SD card

[nixondave@mac.com]

Is there any rhyme or reason to where the scene files go when you load them from an SD card. Everytime I load one, it goes into a different scene setting. If i'm on scene 1, and load a new scene from the SD card, it goes into scene 5...if I'm on scene 5 and load one, it goes into scene 1. And if it goes into scene 1, it won't rename the scene file with the correct name. Any ideas?

[THoff]

First off, I hate the name "Scene File" because it is confusing in this context, since you can't load them individually from the SD card. You always load a set of six of these "Scene Files" from a single text file on the SD card. The card can store up to four of these text files.

Each of the "Scene Files" that are loaded from the SD card file are always assigned to "Scene File" setting corresponding to the dial positions.

The thing that baffles people the most when they first start playing with "Scene Files" is that the settings are lost when the camera is turned off -- always save the "Scene File", or you'll wonder why half your shoot has a different look. When you save the "Scene File", it is written into the camera's non-volatile memory and this does not overwrite what is on the SD card. Writing to/reading from the SD card is a separate operation.

[Barry_Green]

To further clarify -- the position of the scene file dial has no bearing on when you save to or load from the SD card. As THoff is explaining, you can't save just one scene file to the card, it always saves (or loads) all six.

You can save one scene file to the internal camera memory, and in that case the position of the scene file dial is of course relevant. But to the SD card it always saves and loads *all* the scene files.

[nixondave@mac.com]

Well I think we're talking 2 different languages. Because I have saved scene settings to SD cards (each card hold 4 settings) and then I can load individual scene settings into the camera. It doesn't save all six scenes to the card, but one at a time, and it doesn't load all the settings on the card (4) to the scene files. It loads just the one you have selected in the menu. The problem is it doesn't always load it to the same setting number. It's quite random.

[Barry_Green]

Ah, I see the confusion now. There are four text files savable on the SD card, but each one consists of a full package of all six scene files. For the purposes of our discussion, a "scene file" is not a text file on the disk, it's all the settings in the scene file menu for any given position of the scene file dial.

The scene file dial has six positions, and that's what we're talking about. When you save on the SD card, all six of those scene files get saved at once, into a single text file. And they all get loaded back in again, every time. So when you have certain settings in F5, for example, when you save the scene files on the SD card they'll all be saved, and when you load them back in then whatever you saved from F5 will be loaded back into F5.

[Jason Ramsey]

What you have on an SD card are 4 sets of scene files. Each one contains 6 individual scene files. One for F1, F2, and so on, on the dial on the back of the HVX.

The way to load your scene file set into the camera is to go into MCR mode (where you would view your p2 clips that you have recorded. In there, click file, then operation (I think. I'm going from memory here) and then you choose SD card. You can then choose to Write or Read scene files to/from the SD card. Read them if you want them to go onto your cam. If you have them on the SD card properly, you should see 4 different "sets" of scene files to choose from. You choose one of those, and it will save the 6 scene files within that "set" to your camera.

Is that what you are asking?

Then, you can individually save changes made to a scene file within the actual scene file menu where you make the changes. You go down to were you have the save/init option and choose save. That will save it to the cameras internal memory.

If you want to save any changes to the SD card, you have to follow the first process I described, and I believe that you will have tosave the entire set. You can't save just one of the six to the SD card. You can't read just one of the six from the SD card

Hope that helps
Jason

[Jason Ramsey]

Nevermind. Barry beat me to it

Jason

[nixondave@mac.com]

Thanks so much

[Lindquist]

so it is possible to have atleast 4-5 scene files that have different looks?

im going to try this tonight see if i can get it to work, im going out to get a 6pin to 6pin FW cord.

[David Saraceno]

Lindquist:

i sent you a link on this issue in a separate thread you started:

http://www.dvxuser.com/V6/showthread.php?t=81847