Mark Smith
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It took me a while to find that FW800 to FW400 cable and its way too long for the situation, but I bought it anyway just to squash the need for another adapter in the chain. If you check around you still might be able to find that cable- i’ve long since lost the link to the place I bought it .
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I do this all the time . TB to FW 800 then there are 800 to 400 cables which still can be found in case you need that mini FW 400 connector to connect to either a camera or a DSR machine. A visual summation of the scheme.
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Mac Purchase decision depends on your budget. An iMac 27 with upper pecs and plenty of ram>32 gb would give you years of useful life. I just upgraded a 2105 5K iMac to Ssd drive and that gave the computer a good boost. This machine works well for my editing purposes which is a mix of 4K and hd material, Black magic raw in different flavors. I am alway surprised by the years of usage I get out of my Macs.
I say determine your top budget, decide which machine suits you and then stretch for a little more for the max ram or larger SSD. I’m sure you;’ll get your use out of it. -
There are thunderbolt breakout boxes that have Esata ports- I have 2 of those on my desk so that could get you over 1 hump. I use mine with a drive dock and it works perfectly with either a 2012 imac or a 2015 imac so that’s one solution.
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I have used MASV.IO for large file transfers. Think of it like a Fedex when the physical Fedex wont work. I did a shoot in Jackson Hole with tight turn around over 3 days. There were editors working in Brooklyn and in Denver so files had to go to 3 places. There was no chance that fedex would work so I used MASV for camera file transfers which were Canon 4K XF AVC. The MASV portal was great at saturating what ever connection I had at max rate, notifying recipients on the distribution list that they had files to download and notifying me that the files were being downloaded. MASV costs- they charge by the GBs downloaded, so it is not a comparable to DB or Box. That said there is no file size limit and over the 3 days I was pounding it hard with 4k files. We had done a test with DB, but it just wasnt going to cut it for the parameters of this project ( too slow) and MASV made it possible.
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We are in the after- time now vis a vis Covid which is having huge impact on the industry. I am in the NYC area and production is basically zero. While editors may be chopping up zoom and face time sessions for corporate clients or broadcasters, the location, studio end of originating content is over for the time being. Maybe Apple need to put out a laptop with a S35 size sensor and swappable lens mount and 16 stops of DR to make those zoom sessions look better? So while NAB is fundamentally a huge marketing event , right now the market that NAB sells into is stalled. Rental houses in NYC are closed for the duration. Some of the smaller or mid sized rental house have had fire sales and closed.
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There is something else going on with VO recording. I use my Mix pre 6 as an interface, limiters are off. I can be right on top of my schoeps mic and yell and barely get 0 db on the X meters meanwhile the mix pre is all in the red. I think there is some built in limiter in X for which there is no on- off switch.
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I had to go dumpster diving in some DV archives today. These are DV tapes that I captured in X using “create tape archive” function. Here is a screen shot of media import from one tape archive :
You’ll notice that there Is a long list of clips which are camera starts and stops. So going through the exercise of creating a tape archive as a first step while seeming to be a drag, will actually give you much better access to you tape material inside X than if you go about a manual crash and capture technique.
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There is also the “censor effect” which you can apply to a clip blur out specific info.
