[Elijah Lynn]

Ok, the verdict is in!

I was at location yesterday and while setting up BOOM! teh, teh, teh, teh I hear in the phones. Long shorter. I tried everything, and then I noticed that unconnecting the microphone and leaving the XLR connected gave the same noise. Using the Canon XLZ factory stereo mic it did the same thing too!

I have shot with this camera well over 100 hours and have never heard this before. I walk outside and the noise is still there although not as loud. I decide to just go with the EW100 and it’s lavalier and forgo the NTG-2. Later I am driving down the road to try and find some Mini DV tapes and I hear the car speaker, front right, stereo system is 100% off, start making the EXACT same noise. Teh, teh, teh, teh. Once I arrive at the store I shut the car off and it was still doing it. It still didn’t click at that point but I realized that whatever the problem was it must be some super wide band interference or me!

Shorten it up here. It was my Sprint/Nextel IC902 cell/walkie phone!

If the phone was in my pocket it would randomly cause this problem. If it was away from me yet still on (so I could see missed calls and texts) it would cure the problem!

I am so happy to have figured this out! Hopefully it helps some other folks out in the future!

[Elijah Lynn]

Ok,

Here is a small sample of the noise. I am not sure it wasn’t. I look forward to hearing some opinions!

https://dl-client.getdropbox.com/u/26576/xl2-ntg2-bad-audio-sample_1-2.aif

Thanks Ty and Randy!

[Elijah Lynn]

I checked out your website (very nice studio btw) and it appears you are pretty credible and I am happily/confidently going to take your advice!

I like it most because they can match the screen perfectly!

There is a Benjamin Moore paint store nearby.

[Elijah Lynn]

I just shot for about 4 hours today and it appeared to be fine.

I will try and upload a sample of the problem though because I would love to figure out what happened. It scares me to think it may happen again. I will be shooting Thursday in the same place so we may see it happen again.

Thanks

[Elijah Lynn]

You rock!

Thanks so much!

[Elijah Lynn]

Thanks Jeremy.

I have got this working by setting the scale attribute to 50% center attribute of the motion tab to -180 and 180. Where did you learn this. I would like to learn more about this style of multicam editing abd the tricks that go along with it.

Thanks

[Elijah Lynn]

Thanks for clarifying that Jeremy. I will play with that and see what happens. I was able to get multi-clip working (had to set sync).

I am interested in trying your method, does this playback both clips at the same time as well?

[Elijah Lynn]

Thanks Jeremy!

That may make this way easier. I am trying now (for 5 minutes). I am not entirely following what you are saying, if you have a moment more can you be more detailed.

I will probably eventually figure it out but how long that takes is yet to be known!

Cheers,

Elijah

[Elijah Lynn]

Hi there,

I would think it may matter if you plan on doing many different HD streams and some more advanced editing.

However, if you are thinking of getting a raid card then you may likely have the budget for what I am about to suggest. Plan for growth right?!

Get a Caldigit Raid Card for $550. Get 4 drives and put them in raid 5. I used the WD640’s from newegg and they give me a standalone speed of over 100 MB/s read/write and they are only 7200! Using the Apple raid card I get a Raid 5 array that does 200 MB/s. The arraid totals 1.5 GB of usable space and the drives are about $80 each.

Then, I installed a velociraptor in the second optical bay and used 1 of the 2 internal SATA ports to hook it up. You can’t use boot camp with it like this but you can select it as your boot drive. We use Carbon Copy Cloner to copy the current install of the os to the velociraptor, however we did this when it was fresh and you may have more than 300 GB already. I am sure you can figure that part out.

Now you have a Raid 5 array with a Velociraptor drive.

To do this you need the following:

Velociraptor – $300
Drive bay adapter – $40
Right angle sata cable (normal works to but it bends at a right angle in the end) – $??
Molex power adapter to Sata power (not sure of the proper name) – $??

We just installed the Caldigit raid card on another graphics computer that will probably be doing video in the future. I am using that apple card on the main computer, good enough for my SD stuff right now, but when we upgrade to a Panasonic HD then I may change it over.

We then use a BlacX hardrive dock (usb 2.0+eSata) to do time machine backups of what we want. That way you can disconnect the HD from the dock at the end of the day and put it in a mediasafe (protection from fire) or take it offsite in your backpack.

Hope this helps.

[Elijah Lynn]

The reason to multi clip is so I can see both angles playback simultaneously and pick best cuts.

Unless I am missing something obvious.