Paul Harper
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At the other end of the spectrum from the Edirol and Sony recorders—If you were planning to add professional gear, such as wireless mics, you might consider something like the Zaxcom wireless transmitter which can come with recording to memory card built in. Very small, plus time code, plus you get to choose the type of mic you want to use.
Paul Harper
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As soon as you get the helicopter down low where the interesting shots are, the bugs start to be a problem!
No offense, but I have to ask: Are you tilting the camera down when you’re not rolling?
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It does not uprez, AFAIK. I have one (a Multibridge Extreme), but I’ve never installed it. In fact, if you are interested, I will sell it cheap in the box. The cross converting was very appealing to me, as well as the monitoring using the DVI connector, but I ended up re-using the Decklink card and HD Link that we already had in another computer. Then ( two years ago) it made a lot of sense to use the Apple 23 inch monitor as an HD monitor. Now that HD monitors have come down in price, I don’t think it looks so appealing. I believe there are JVC monitors at around 24″ that will give you HD-SDI, SD-SDI, component and composite, all for less than $2500.
If you are interested in the Mult Extreme, give me a call at area code Four Zero Eight 387 X 3226.Paul
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That’s XDCAM, not XDCAM HD? If HD, would you finish in HD just to protect for the future, and only transcode your master?
Paul Harper
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Great ideas for you to consider. As far as accurately maintaining sync, the ‘old school’ way to do that was with a Denecke slate connected to an audio recorder playing back the original recording of the music (often dubbed directly from CD to a Nagra recorder). Every time you rolled tape (film), you would pan the camera to record the slate, which would be displaying the time code from your original music. During editing, your editor would be able to match every shot to the correct place in the music. Now how to do that without renting expensive equipment? Make a recording from the CD to your best quality video file. Then, make a VHS window burn of that recording. Get an old TV/VCR combo and bring it on set with your window burned tape. At the beginning of every take, roll the appropriate part of the VHS tape. and then roll your camera. Pan over to the TV set and capture the time code in the window burn. You now have a reference point between your on-set footage and the original recording. You may need to ampllify the V
HS audio so the performers can hear it in order to lip sync. *Just as effective as the “pro” technique, and almost no cost.