Comments on: Smallest HD Digital Camcorder: Sony HDR-CX7 http://www.mydigitallife.info/2007/07/11/smallest-hd-digital-camcorder-sony-hdr-cx7/ Living Digitally and Electronically Wed, 23 Dec 2009 08:15:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 hourly 1 By: Orso http://www.mydigitallife.info/2007/07/11/smallest-hd-digital-camcorder-sony-hdr-cx7/comment-page-1/#comment-526043 Orso Thu, 31 Jul 2008 05:55:44 +0000 http://www.mydigitallife.info/2007/07/11/smallest-hd-digital-camcorder-sony-hdr-cx7/#comment-526043 When I end shooting a scene, the camcorder keeps recording for half a second or so. So if I do not pay attention to keep the camera perfectly steady during the shutdown (difficult in any case as some movement occurs just by pressing the record/end button) I end up with some undesirable footage at the end of almost any scene. I have attempted to clean up these scenes using the "DIVIDE" function on the CX7 and deleting the sub-divided undesirable portion of the scene. The problem is that a brief pause then shows up at the end of every divided scene both on my computer and on a burnt DVD. Irritant #2: My editing needs are limited since most of my shooting is family or travel scenes. I just want to remove or trim undesirable scenes.I have attempted to do this with the Motion Picture Browser software using the "MEDIA FILE IMPORT" feature in oreder to do a scene selection. The problem is that 3 or 4 scenes out of every hundred do not show up as thumbnail but rather as an empty thumbnail with an X at the center. The problem is not related to those specific scenes as a second or third attempt shows them up but with 3 or 4 other scenes missing. The missing scenes appear due to a random processing error. I have tried to do a patch by doing a second "MEDIA FILE IMPORT" of the missing scenes, which works fine, except that I have not found a way to integrate them in the same media file. I love the astonishing picture quality, random access and compactness of the CX7 but I am starting to miss the flying erase heads and the simplicity of MiniDV. When I end shooting a scene, the camcorder keeps recording for half a second or so. So if I do not pay attention to keep the camera perfectly steady during the shutdown (difficult in any case as some movement occurs just by pressing the record/end button) I end up with some undesirable footage at the end of almost any scene. I have attempted to clean up these scenes using the “DIVIDE” function on the CX7 and deleting the sub-divided undesirable portion of the scene. The problem is that a brief pause then shows up at the end of every divided scene both on my computer and on a burnt DVD.
Irritant #2:
My editing needs are limited since most of my shooting is family or travel scenes. I just want to remove or trim undesirable scenes.I have attempted to do this with the Motion Picture Browser software using the “MEDIA FILE IMPORT” feature in oreder to do a scene selection.
The problem is that 3 or 4 scenes out of every hundred do not show up as thumbnail but rather as an empty thumbnail with an X at the center.
The problem is not related to those specific scenes as a second or third attempt shows them up but with 3 or 4 other scenes missing. The missing scenes appear due to a random processing error.
I have tried to do a patch by doing a second “MEDIA FILE IMPORT” of the missing scenes, which works fine, except that I have not found a way to integrate them in the same media file.

I love the astonishing picture quality, random access and compactness of the CX7 but I am starting to miss the flying erase heads and the simplicity of MiniDV.

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