Looking at buying Sony NEX 7

The specs below are confusing to this video neophyte. Will I be able to connect camera and expect to see camera in iMovie or iPhoto?
"The NEX-7's Full HD video is recorded using AVCHD Version 2.0 compression, with Dolby Digital (AC-3) audio, and a wide range of progressive-scan and interlaced frame rates are available. When set to NTSC mode, the available progressive-scan rate are 60 fps (28 Mbps) or 24 fps (24 Mbps or 17 Mbps), and you can also opt for an interlaced 60 fps (24 Mbps or 17 Mbps). If you switch to PAL mode, the options are the same, except that the 60 fps rates are replaced by 50 fps equivalents, and the 24 fps rates by 25 fps ones.
It's also possible to record at a reduced bitrate resolution of 1,440 x 1,080 pixels (12 Mbps) that's still 16:9 aspect ratio (using rectangular pixels), or a standard-definition 4:3 VGA (640 x 480 pixel, 3 Mbps) resolution. 1,440 x 1,080 mode is available at 30 fps for NTSC, or 25 fps for PAL, while 640 x 480 mode is 30 fps regardless of region. All are captured using MPEG-4 AVC (H.264) compression with MPEG-4 AAC-LC audio. Note that no 720p recording mode is available on the NEX-7."

I have a Sony NEX-5N so not quite the same but may be close enought.
I could not get Appature to touch the AVCHD files (think there may have been an update since) so I have been using the MP4 setting on in 1080 mode. Results look fine for my needs and iMove will import them from my Apature libary. (I assume this means iPhoto will work as well)
I am however having an issue:
When I output from iMovie on the 720p (iPhone / Apple TV) setting the colour rendition is shocking. It must be rendered in 8bits. I have a few throries as to what it can be:
Could iMovie '11 does not like the master files They play fine in Apature so I doubt it.
iMovie using a stupidly low bit rate on the rendering for apple devicesChife suspect
My Mac (core 2 duo / 4G Ram) is to old and it drops the bit rate to get the rendering time down?
is iMovie really that clever?
My old G4 mac with iMovie HD could render HD content just fine.
I get the same effect when editing the files which make me think it's this.

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Sony NEX-7 colour problems in LR 3.6 and 4 beta

Hi everyone,
I've recently started shooting with a Sony NEX-7, using Sony's e-mount lenses.
Though the NEX-7 is supported since LR 3.6, I am getting really poor results. The colours are off and you can really see this when you increase vibrance or saturation - it just looks terrible and any incease in saturation results in bad yellows and greens. Blues seem okay. Have had no probs with my Nikon D700 and Fuji X100 files, and my monitor is calibrated.
Playing with the Camera calibration panel on a case-by-case basis fixes the colours, but I was wondering whether anybody had created a DNG colour profile for the NEX-7 camera (I've scoured the net without success) or whether it's possible that Adobe will improve the NEX-7 rendering in subsequent releases?
Using the Sony software helps identify how the file should look but it's very slow as a RAW converter and I'm a big Lightroom fan so would rather stay in Lightroom.
I would buy an X-rite kit and create my own profile but I don't think I have the right light sources to make a good profile.
Any help or pointers appreciated - it's a great camera but the current raw conversion isn't doing it justice.
B.
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I have a Sony NEX-VG10, edit with Prem Pro and am having serious capturing issues.

I recently purchased the Sony NEX-VG10 and am really excited about it. I have run into some serious problems capturing the footage, though. I have a 2010 iMac, am running OSX 10.8.2 Mountain Lion and use Adobe Premiere Pro CS6 to edit. I've discovered that the files on the camera are .MTS, a file format with which I am unfamiliar (not surprising, I'm not exactly a newb, but the past few months is the first time I've started editing seriously - I am more a writer/director/producer and could do basic stuff with FC7 and Prem Pro - now I own my own production company and am getting down to the nitty gritty).
But I have found that
1. I can't capture using bridge, it doesn't recognize the file format.
2. When I plug the camera into the computer and go straight to the files, I don't even get individual files. All the information is contained in what looks like a Quicktime movie, but isn't recognized by Quicktime or any other program as anything.
3. When I go into the camera files using the import function in Premiere Pro, I find the individual .MTS files - which say they are Unix Executable files (no idea what that means), I can import them into PP, but the quality is atrocious. Grainy and pixely. Even when viewing them in full res playback mode.
4. I bought Bigasoft Total Video converter (wicked cool program). I import the files using PP, then go find them in this program, and convert them into .mov files - the quality is still atrocious (not surprised, as the .mts files look cruddy, what could I expect when I converted them - but was worth a try).
I need to capture these files in full quality (oh - the file information says they are in 1920 x 1080 (1.0), so it's not like I filmed in a low res.
The software that came with the camera is for PCs, I've searched for answers to these problems, and although I've found similar, I can't find anything that actually helps me. Can anyone out there tell me exactly what to do?!? I would be most appreciative. My new company's success depends on it!

If you'll type mts into the search field for these communities, you will see a plethora of threads on the subject - I was going to link to one, but there are so many, it'd be best for you to read through several. In any case, of note is the fact that you might be able to import into iMovie directly as long as you do not shoot in 50/60 fps - in order to be able to read it, it has to be either 30fps for NTSC or 24 for PAL.
Not sure if the frames per second problem has anything to do with your lousy quality problem, but it might. The other concern is that Sony has not and does not really play nice with anything Apple - that was one of the reasons I chose a Canon.

Sony NEX-5N AVCHD 2.0 1080p50 and Premiere Pro/After Effects CS5.5

Hi all,
I have a new Sony NEX-5N and have shot some test 1080p50 video using it.
On my quest for some new editing/production software to close the loop I have just downloaded and installed a Trial Version of CS5.5 Production Premium.
I am able to load my video files into Premiere Pro.
However, when I attempt to open the Video File in After Effects, I recieve the following Error message:
   After Effects error: '00023.MTS' cannot be imported - this '.mts' file is damaged or unsupported.
I have tried renaming the extension to .MPG, .M4V, .M2TS all with exactly the same result.
Perhaps this is a limitation of the Trial Version or perhaps a limitation of After Effects CS5.5. Is anyone able to advise?
As extra information I include below the TEXT output from MediaInfo for the file I am able to load into Premiere Pro CS5.5 but not After Effects.
Thanks.
General
ID                               : 0 (0x0)
Complete name                    : F:\AVI\Video\SourceMedia\00023.MTS
Format                           : BDAV
Format/Info                      : Blu-ray Video
File size                        : 61.8 MiB
Duration                         : 19s 616ms
Overall bit rate mode            : Variable
Overall bit rate                 : 26.4 Mbps
Maximum Overall bit rate         : 28.0 Mbps
Video
ID                               : 4113 (0x1011)
Menu ID                          : 1 (0x1)
Format                           : AVC
Format/Info                      : Advanced Video Codec
Format profile                   : [email protected]
Format settings, CABAC           : Yes
Format settings, ReFrames        : 2 frames
Format settings, GOP             : M=1, N=12
Codec ID                         : 27
Duration                         : 19s 680ms
Bit rate mode                    : Variable
Bit rate                         : 25.1 Mbps
Maximum bit rate                 : 26.0 Mbps
Width                            : 1 920 pixels
Height                           : 1 080 pixels
Display aspect ratio             : 16:9
Frame rate                       : 50.000 fps
Color space                      : YUV
Chroma subsampling               : 4:2:0
Bit depth                        : 8 bits
Scan type                        : Progressive
Bits/(Pixel*Frame)               : 0.242
Stream size                      : 58.8 MiB (95%)
Audio
ID                               : 4352 (0x1100)
Menu ID                          : 1 (0x1)
Format                           : AC-3
Format/Info                      : Audio Coding 3
Mode extension                   : CM (complete main)
Codec ID                         : 129
Duration                         : 19s 680ms
Bit rate mode                    : Constant
Bit rate                         : 256 Kbps
Channel(s)                       : 2 channels
Channel positions                : Front: L R
Sampling rate                    : 48.0 KHz
Bit depth                        : 16 bits
Compression mode                 : Lossy
Stream size                      : 615 KiB (1%)
Text
ID                               : 4608 (0x1200)
Menu ID                          : 1 (0x1)
Format                           : PGS
Codec ID                         : 144
Duration                         : 19s 135ms

Hi and thanks, this is exactly what I am looking for :-)
Tim Kurkoski wrote:
Other question: Is it just this one file that fails to import or is it all files from that camera?
All of the clips I have recorded fail to import to AE but work in PPro
Tim Kurkoski wrote:
Can you post a sample file that exhibits the problem so that I could try the clip on my machine?
I just recorded 4 seconds of a clock pendulum swinging, surprisingly the file was 20Mb!?!? Anyway, I have made the file available for download at the following location:
http://andrew.net.au/~rowan/avchd/00032.MTS
You can browse the directory at http://andrew.net.au/~rowan/avchd/ if you need to "right-click" and save as.
I am hoping it is a limitation of the trial as I have noticed a few other "gotchas" with the trial version.
Thanks for the advice about video format, I have noticed that my computer (Core 2 Duo) is very slow to process the H.264 stream, PremierePro cannot play the 30sec stream in realtime (starts to stutter around 23sec) and After Effects starts its stutter almost immediately (both just playing the stream with no effects) - that said WindowsMediaPlayer has no problem playing the same stream at full speed. I am however reluctant to do any transcoding except to a lossless format as it seems counter intuitive - but this will be the subject of another post, as I don't want to clutter this one.
Thanks again.

Use Camera RAW with Sony Nex-3

Hey Guys!
I want to get out more details from my photos.
Im using Adobe Photoshop CS5
Sony NEX-3 Compact Camera (listed in the camera raw compatibility list)
First i changed the cameras picture format from jpg to RAW & made some photos.
At home i tried to open the files with Camera Raw. Doesnt work. The sony camera saved the pictures as an ARW File.
So i downloaded Adobe DNG Converter. I converted the ARW into a RAW file and opened it with camera raw.
So far so good! I opended the RAW picture with Photoshop. Just for testing with 8 & also 16 bit. Does my camera support 16bit?
I compared the RAW File with the new created jpg.
Normaly the quality of the raw file should be much better than the compressed jpg i think.
I took a look at some other jpg pictures (i shot them in JPG Mode) & compared them with the RAW Images (RAW Mode).
I saw absolutely no difference between RAW & JPG.
I also tried a exact tonal value correction at both images.
Same with other picture corrections. Details, Noise, Sharpness.... same.
With the Sony NEX-3 there also was a RAW Program included which opens the ARW Files.
I cant see some differences between RAW & jpg here too.
What I am doing wrong?
I have to say that i am an camera raw beginner. I tried this for the first time. I thought this would be easier!
At the screenshot below you see a JPG picture on the left & a 16bit DNG on the right.
I found no differences!
I would be very happy about your help and some good advices.
Best regards Andi

Andi265 wrote:
Basicly i understand how RAW works. But im still wondering why i cant see just only a very little difference to my jpg Images.
The image of the Mountain Railway Station i postet has a lot of dark shadow areas & details.
I´m also wondering why these chromatic aberrations are shown in the RAW file? I thought its only in the jpg images because of the compression.
Your raw file may be 12 or 14 bit, and have no output colour space - it is only limited by its physical characteristics and analogue-to-digital converters. You should set Camera Raw for the biggest workspace necessary, which in my case is 16 bit AdobeRGB. Others work in ProPhotoRGB—it's a personal choice. This has the effect of constraining the raw data, and you will learn to use the sliders to work within those constraints.
Using normal processing settings there will only be subtle differences between the conversion preview and the camera JPEG. The tonal response will be slightly different, seeming slightly lighter or darker, and the colours' hue/saturation will be slightly different too. Also, depending on the camera, automatic distortion/vignette/aberration correction will be missing. This is all to be expected, and your expectations have been misplaced.
However, this is only a starting point. Whilst JPEG shooters can go on to process their images, the resulting quality will be inferior; JPEG is a finished image format. Raw shooters have much more to play with, and can manipulate the conversion's parameters to boost shadows, recover highlights, adjust mean exposure, increase/reduce/localise sharpening and noise control, apply processing gradients and masks, apply local contrast and selective saturation boosts, and correct your camera's colour response, as well as apply lens defect corrections—all before the conversion to JPEG.
So, you won't start to see the difference until you start to push these adjustments. You have been given a second (and a third and a fourth...) chance to create your JPEG using your own set of picture parameters, and the ability to change these parameters for each photo after taking the photo.
In your photo above, you can bring out detail in the shadows by boosting Fill and Blacks. As you shot in Raw, you will have a good amount of tonal resolution recorded in the shadows (assuming you didn't underexpose in the first place), which would be absent from a JPEG. You also have the ability to change the sharpening to suit the image, and even apply local sharpening where it's needed most (and less where it's not needed).
You also have the ability to modify Camera Raw's default settings how you like it. You can enable automatic lens defect corrections (like chromatic aberration—make sure you're on ACR 6.7). You can change the default camera profile (which dictates how tone, hue and saturation is translated) to a preset, or make your own using a calibrator. Do this and your starting point will be how you want it, not how Sony wants it.
I could go on, but I think you have probably heard much of this before. The main point I'm making is that you shouldn't expect to see a big difference straight away, but the possibilities you have created are much greater.
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Problem for import picture of sony nex-5 with lightroom 5

I have Lr 5 on os X and I don't understand when I import picture of Sony NEX-5, my pixel size is 4592 x 2576 instead of 4592 x 3056.
So the picture render is cut only on lightroom and is good on mode preview on Mac
Thanks for your help

Thank you e2photo.
Yesterday I found a similar post about the same issue with a new Canon camera. They fixed the problem by copying the files from the camera to a folder on the computer. Then they loaded the files into AP3 from the folder. Great news; it worked!!
Thank you for your thoughts on iMovie as I had not tried to download movie content yet. You prompted me to do a little trial. No problem. iMovie 08 read the ACVHD movie and it looks great.
Kind regards,
Karl McC

LR4 and Sony NEX-7 video files?

I just installed LR4 and imported files from my Sony NEX-7, including raw files and video (.mts) files. The thumbnail of the file has a little video camera icon in the bottom left, but no time lenth of video as I exprected. And when I try to open a video file, the starting frame appears but there is no control bar under the video to allow me to "play" it and using the Spacebar doesn't start it either. What am I missing in this process?

I had a similar issue with a Sony RX100. It was not supported by ACR (Adobe Camera Raw) until version 7.2. Version 7.2 includes the NEX 7 too. It may have been included in earlier versions, but I'm not sure.
ACR is the free Adobe plug in that has all the camera and lens correstions and adjustments. The camera makers create there RAW formats and Adobe then, one at a time, turns that into conversion data in ACR. At least I think that's how it works!
PSE 10 will only go to ACR 6.7. It won't upgrade ACR past 6.7. You have to buy PSE 11 to get functionality with ACR 7.2
The way it works it that you have PSE search for updates under the Help menu. When PSE 10 was new, it allowed me to update the ACR to 6.7. In fact it insisted I do it. The same was true with PSE 11. It alerted me that an upgrade was available.
A similar situation exists with Lightroom. My Sony camera would not work with LR 4. It had to upgrade itself to 4.2
If you don't want to deal with the Adobe details, Sony provides "Image Data Converter" that can make files from the Sony RAW images that PSE10 can work with.
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Photos imported from Sony NEX-3N disappear from iPhoto

I recently imported a series of photos from several different sources (pentax camera, iPhone, USB key and a Sony NEX-3N camera) and all the photos appeared to be imported correctly. I was able to edit the photos and put them in various events in the library manager.
Now, a few hours later, all the photos from the Sony camera have disappeared from the library manager but none of the other photos. They were briefly visible in the photo stream but are disappearing in front of me! When I click on one in the photo stream, it tells me that it has already been imported. Then when I try to display it in the album, it's not there. I've tried using the research function, sorting by date and even the intelligent album function (to find all photos from the Sony NEX-3N) with no success.
When I manage to grab a sony photo from the photo stream before it disappears, and copy it into an album, the information about the source disappears and appears empty. But the photo remains (unfortunately only about 10 out of 200!!)
When I view the event in the library where they should be, the other photos seem to move around on their own, as if the sony photos are there and then disappearing but I can't actually see the missing photos. I've also tried showing hidden photos and looking in the finder library files, to no success.
Help??

Back up your iPhoto library, Depress and hold the option (alt) and command keys and launch iPhoto - from the resulting first aid window repair permissions and if necessary rebuild your database
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Support for RAW (ARW) from Sony NEX-7

I have iPhoto 9.2.3 (629.52) on my macBook Air running OS X 10.6.8. I successfully imported Raw photos from my Sony NEX-7 (ARW).
I have iPhoto 9.2.3 (629.52) on my iMac running OS X 10.6.8. When I try to import these same Sony Raw files, I get the message that the format is not supported (or whatever that message is).
I downloaded the RAW camera update 3.9 and installed it on my iMac. Still no go.
What gives? Any ideas? Suggestions?

Ah, wouldn't you know it. Found the answer right after I posted my question (I looked before . . . I swear I did).
I needed and have downloaded the RAW Camera Update 3.13 (I think the specific update I needed was in the RAW Camera update 3.10).
Thanks . . . um . . . to me
Cheers.

Why i can't import a clip of AVCHD format from iPhoto originaly from my Sony NEX-5N

why i can't import a clip of AVCHD format from iPhoto originaly from my Sony NEX-5N?

Hi there. For anyone searching, here are the results of my research and corresponding advice back to Sony...
Thanks, your comments looked correct but did not solve my problem. You may be interested to know after much testing and research, I was able to ascertain that some of the camera's AVCHD settings iMovie cannot see at all (only some, which made it even harder to figure out!). Plus, if you have recorded movie clips in more than one format to the memory card (MP4 or any one of the AVCHD's), iMovie cannot see any of the AVCHD's.
Bottom line - forgo the benefits of AVCHD on the Sony NEX-5N and just use MP4 until Apple makes it easier.

Sony NEX-5n Image Quality: Jaggies

Hi,
it occured to me that I see a pretty hefty amount of jagged edges in slanted lines with Sony NEX-5n .arw raw files. Not in all, but in several. Now, when I open or convert such raw files with the Sony Image Data Converter or with Apple Aperture, there are no jaggies.
In LR, even when setting sharpness from default 25% all the way down to 0%, a sort of jaggie pattern still can be observed, allthoug very very minor.
This leads me to the "hope" that the just introduced capability for Sony NEX-5n files in LR 3.5 was kind of rushed and in the next version a better demosaicing algorithm will be provided.
At least the way it is now the image quality for NEX-5n files not 100% there where it should be expected from LR.

Thank you for your response. Oh, I'm glad that for once it's "you have to view the images at 100%" and not "don't pixelpeep, it's the print that counts" ;-)
Why yes, of course, it's the 100% view where it's most visible and what I would only refer to when commenting on image quality issues regarding possible problems.
And while I certainly can't pinpoint it the fact that until now I only encountered this problem on some images in LR only and not when looking at or converting the very same raw file with another software as the above mentioned I'm pretty sure it's not the camera which delivered the artifacts in the first time.
I have 2 examples which I converted to Jpg and saved at 100%.
First a red deer. Look closely in the neck fur: can you see the jaggies? You can access the 100% view via the loupe or icon: https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/ihj4B27L6M5inWXt9yk5-w?feat=directlink
I have a comparison of a conversion between LR at default, LR at zero sharpening and the Sony Converter (which btw doesn't look that good to me, I prefer Aperture which I tested also and which also don't show Jaggies, regardless how high I set the sharpening into it). Also this image can and should be looked at 100% in Picasa: https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/N58Xc0Ag7zBA_ymIvRDc2w?feat=directlink
The second example shows a cross bike. Look for the jaggies at the rear rim and seat stay area. Interestingly, those jaggies are clearly there but in the same time a little less pronounced then in LR itself.: https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/5vpwZ1cZ8hpTVodn3siGxA?feat=directlink

Sony nex-5n camera and macbook

I want to buy the new Sony NEX-5N camera but have heard I would not be able to upload my video onto my macbook. If this is true is there another way to do it, with maybe some other software?

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Welcome to the Sony Community!
From what you've described and from the troubleshooting that you did, I would agree with bitsnpieces that the camera may need service.
You can set up repair for your NEX5N camera at http://www.precisioncamera.com/.
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I am about ready to buy a Sony NEX-5N, but I don't want to upgrade to FCP-X just yet. Will I be able to import or open HD files from the camera into FCP6, and how?

Shane,
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Also, using ClipWrap2, would I "rewrap" the files and then log and transfer?
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I am thinking about purchasing a Sony NEX 7 but understand that my Lightroom 4 will nit download the raw files from this camera. Will this situation be changed in the near future?

Looking at the list, the NEX-7 has been supported since LR 3.6.
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But I'm waiting for NEX-6 support!

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Just got my Sony NEX 7, but the RAW files are unsupported. The camera has been around for a while, so when will Aperture provide an update?

Looks like it's supported as of today. Check software update:
This update adds RAW image compatibility for the following cameras to Aperture 3 and iPhoto '11:
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