ProMax's XDCAM EX Workflow Video

ProMax is proud to offer its second video on Sony's new XDCAM EX technology. We covered the camera's features here, and now we offer an insight into the post-production workflow when working with the camera. Check it out and let us know what you think!

A Night with PVN

ProMax had the opportunity to spend an evening with PVN (Professional Videographer's Network) last night in Irvine, CA. We were pleased to see the enthusiastic standing room-only crowd. The Sony PMW-EX1 is a very hot item right now, and it and the subsequent post-production workflow were featured once again. Val Reynolds and Paul Lee were on hand from Sony, Val from the Sales side and Paul from the technical side.

It was a standing room-only crowd at Wednesday's monthly PVN meeting.

The PVN meetings are great as they start out with a meet-and-greet at 6:30. They also feature a free or for sale table where members can bring in video equipment and offer it for sale or as a giveaway. At 7:00, Petr Hasa, the current President of PVN, went over the current issues of PVN, then introduced Val Reynolds and Sony. Val covered the specifics of the camera and took a lot of questions about it and how it was different, how it compared to some of their previous cameras, as well as how it compared to some of the competitor's camera.

Several PMW-EX1 cameras were available for the PVN members to get their hands on.

Following Val, Curtis Harris and Rob Brambila, both System Engineers from ProMax, discussed the file-based tapeless workflow with Final Cut Pro and touched on other NLEs such as Premiere and Avid. Also covered was the importance of having a physical back-up for your footage when working with a file-based workflow. We also had a nice prizes we gave away all night, including ProMax t-shirts and coffee mugs and Sony had a few giveaways as well. For the raffle, we gave away a FireMax 250GB Combo Drive, a SteadyTracker Ultralite, a Sony CyberShot camera, and a Vortex Media DVD for the PMW-EX1.

PVN President Petr Hasa was a gracious host for Sony and ProMax.

Thanks again to PVN and to Sony for helping us put together a great evening.