We got them

I've downloaded but am having trouble viewing the files with Quicktime. What codec am I missing? (Sorry if this is a pedestrian question.)

BTW, thanks for posting the files!
 
So I don't have to put the httpdocs in the link....THANK YOU.

They work for me. They are just exported from FCP using HDV 60i and HDV 24p. About 60 to 80 MB each.

I will be posting much better footage soon. These shots were very quick with not much setup.
 
My Quicktime wants to search for additional software to view the footage. This might be because you're compressing using in HDV which is a specific codec. I guess HDV isn't currently supported with quicktime? How about compressing them in H.264?

To answer your FCP question earlier: If you started and stopped your recording while shooting (stopped, not paused) that would explain why FCP chopped your footage into different clips. You probably have your capture settings set to "create new clilp on timecode break" in your user preferences. When you start and stop recording the footage, it creates a break in the timecode read by the NLE. You can change that in your user preferences, but I wouldn't if you're going to use the log and capture and not just use capture now.
 
The 24p .mov looks wrong. First of all, the V1U's 24p is actually carried in a 29.97 60i stream, and this clip appears to drop frames and show interlace (pulldown frames) artifacts.

My guess is that it was captured with FCP's 1080 24p HDV capture preset (24F support) instead of the normal 1080i 29.97 fps HDV preset.

So far, all I've seen from the V1U seems to indicate that Sony's choice of carrying 24p within 60i is a waste of precious bandwidth. I would imagine that 25p mode should actually have less artifacts because of the lower frame rate recorded.

I'm sure better material will come along though, and then we can see how good their encoder is.
 
Can I make another suggestion? Give us high contrast, no gain, 24p (captured as 60i), m2t's.

And another with low contrast, low light, high gain, 24p as 60i, m2t's.

And with both 24p clips, 1/48th of a second shutter speed.
 
Elton you are right! How am I supposed to capture the 24p clips? Not 1080 24p????

Is the Sony camera not supported by FCP yet?

AuditoryVisuals how do I get m2t files? Capture from the tape in a different way?

I don't know why the clips are not working....they work fine for me via QT 7.1.3
 
I'm not sure what program you could use to capture m2t's on a mac... I'm a PC user. But I know enough about FCP to know they are automatically converted to Quick Time MPEG-2's... Sorry if I'm no help.
 
MLCinema said:
How am I supposed to capture the 24p clips? Not 1080 24p????
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If you have the full Mac OSX 10.4 installed, just use DVHSCap which will simply capture the raw m2t, which is located in the developer folder in your main disk directory.

The path should look like this: Developer/FireWireSDK20/Applications/DVHSCap
 
It's not a joke, it's 24P, but there is something funky about it. Here is my experience with the V1U. I had a b- roll camera running at a recent shoot, and the operator brought his new V1U, so I thought we would try it out for B roll. Everything went fine and I captured the footage as I normally would in Vegas 7. Upon looking at the footage I noticed something immediatly wrong with it. Frames were blending, stuttery, crappy, yuk. THen I noticed that all the clips were being read as 29.97 within vegas. What, Sony can't capture it's own footage right but can get the canon footage with no problem. No problem I figured, I went into the properties of the first clip and clicked the enabable 2:3 pulldown. Went back played the clip, still bad. Finially figured out that I had to tell vegas what frame to start the pulldown removal. Well, I said, I guess it isn't that bad I'll just apply this to all the clips. NOpe, each clip started the pulldown on a different frame, what a pain in the ass. So basically you have to tell your NLE exactly where to remove pulldown in order to get the true 24P footage. After that it looks pretty decent, but it's such a pain, especially if you have alot of clips. If sony's own software can't handle the V1U correctly, what are the other NLE's doing?
 
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