Some of you may recall that a few weeks ago I shut down my quad core editing workstation as an energy-saving measure one Monday night. The following Tuesday, I started it up and Windows XP loaded up to a BSOD. After investigating the cause, I discovered all of the RAID devices were offline.

 

Fast

This is a story of grief and struggle. Last Monday, I decided to power down the big editing workstation at the end of the day, rather than leave it running overnight, as I usually did for the past 12 months since I built it. It's really amazing, but leaving a few workstations running 24/7 results

On Tuesday, I drove to Waterbury-Oxford Airport to see the Experimental Aircraft Association's restored B-17 Aluminum Overcast bomber plane and to hopefully get some excellent footage of an interesting subject.

 

 

A couple of weekends ago, I attended a horse show, mainly as a spectator and to get a feel for equestrian events. I brought my trusty XDCam EX with me and recorded about 2-1/2 hours of footage over the course of the morning and part of the afternoon.

 

I shot some footage

For the ultimate run & gun audio, a good X-Y stereo condenser mic is a wonderful thing.

I presently use a Rode NT4 on my primary EX1. If you've seen/heard my videos here on XR, then you already know it's a great-sounding mic with superb front-to-back ratio and imaging.

But

This was a decision long in coming. Back in February, we got the first PMW-EX1 and I found myself an unwitting beta tester for Sony. Two trips to Sony service later, all the bugs are pretty much worked out (the battery drainage issue is 95% improved, but not down to zero) and the camera is doing