[Michael Mcswain]

I’ve looked at the tascam but I read somewhere that when dialing the gain up and down you got a notched increase or decrease. Not a smooth level change. that would be kind of a deal breaker for me because you would not be able to ride the levels while recording. Does anybody know this to be true or not?

[Michael Mcswain]

Yea $70 is just enough to make me think about it. I do think the quality of the preamp would be my main concern though. 99.9% of my audio recording time is sit down interviews so I don’t need the camera mount option to be perfect. My main thought was that the versatility may prove useful in the future.

[Michael Mcswain]

Can’t say I’m the most up to date guru on codecs.
Our other camera is an EX3. Between the smaller file sizes and the would be matching formats it seems like a somewhat logical choice. Is ProRes going to look that much better? This is sort of our secondary travel cam. Mostly used for web marketing type videos and such.

[Michael Mcswain]

This may be old news but I talked to Bob at Hoodman, very cool guy -very helpful. I was struggling with restore media errors while using his adapter in my ex3 with transcend 16gig sdhc cards. He explained that there are basically two limitations with the sdhc cards. the inability to overcrank all the way up to 60fps (widely known), and the fact that sdhc is just plain slower than the sxs cards and it takes about 8 seconds for the card/camera to finish writing the file after you hit stop. I was pressing record again before the card was officially ready. If you watch the red light on the card bay on the side, it’ll take almost exactly 8 seconds for it to go out after you hit stop. If you never hit record until after this light goes out or turns green (i forget), you’ll never get restore media errors. He told me this would be the case wether you use hoodman raw, transcend, or sandisk.. Just a limitation of sdhc. Still a small price to pay to avoid buying $1k SxS cards.. like I said, mabye old news but I struggled with it for a while.

[Michael Mcswain]

I’ve looked into shooting 60p with the HD110 and all I found was some sketchy information about using the composite out and or shooting in HDV SD60p/DV, which FCP does not support.
I guess the best answer is to get a new camera..

[Michael Mcswain]

thanks for the input.. I’ve been getting this message for some time now in FCP and never knew exactly what was going on. It has never proved to be a problem before and we do very little broadcast work so.. Now Im just annoyed with not knowing and so i’m digging around a little. My main frustration is not knowing why my two almost identical cameras are being recognized as two different things in FCP. And why can’t I change the camera from non drop-frame to drop-frame. Is there something about DV NTSC that is natively non drop frame?? I’m still not terribly clear on the whole thing.

[Michael Mcswain]

Thanks so much for helping out a green horn!

[Michael Mcswain]

Thanks so much.. I must have accidently hit shift s.