[Ray Palmer]

I take a small pocket digital audio recorder with me. When I am in a booth and the vendor tells me what software version I should be running or what telephone number I need to call to talk to an Engineer, I have them talk directly into my recorder. Out of their mouth and onto digital storage. I don’t even attemp to remember or write it all down.
On the flight home, I playback and write up my notes.
It works great for expenses too. Takes away a lot of stress from trying to remember it all.

Ray Palmer, Engineer
Salt River Project
Phoenix, AZ
602-236-8224 office
Violence may not be the answer but it sure cuts down on the questions.

[Ray Palmer]

Does your local monitor have an SD video loop (output)? If so, camera to local jib monitor, loop out to the projector.

Ray Palmer, Engineer
Salt River Project
Phoenix, AZ
602-236-8224 office
Violence may not be the answer but it sure cuts down on the questions.

[Ray Palmer]

Jeff,
What a great list of the 2700 improvements over our original 27F.
It would have taken me while comparing spec sheets to come up with what you gave me.
Thank you.
Ray

Ray Palmer, Engineer
Salt River Project
Phoenix, AZ
602-236-8224 office
Violence may not be the answer but it sure cuts down on the questions.

[Ray Palmer]

We do the whole production. We write, shoot, edit and archive.

We edit non-linear and have our six FCPs on a common server, so i feel that it is time to loose the tape decks.

I do appreciate the feedback and advice.

Ray Palmer, Engineer
Salt River Project
Phoenix, AZ
602-236-8224 office
Violence may not be the answer but it sure cuts down on the questions.

[Ray Palmer]

Thanks Emre.

The soon to expire trade in on the 2700 is pushing us towards P2 and I know that we don’t want to buy another tape camera anyway.
I do appreciate any feedback regarding the 2700 and P2. We bought one of the very first Varicam tape based cameras many years ago and still have it.

Ray Palmer, Engineer
Salt River Project
Phoenix, AZ
602-236-8224 office
Violence may not be the answer but it sure cuts down on the questions.

[Ray Palmer]

I agree with everything you are saying.
I am interested in asking the Vaircam users if their life is better or worse since migrating to P2 from tape.

BTW Noah, I am enjoying your RED book. Nice job.

Ray Palmer, Engineer
Salt River Project
Phoenix, AZ
602-236-8224 office
Violence may not be the answer but it sure cuts down on the questions.

[Ray Palmer]

The testing I did was with a keyboard sampler.
I plugged in a wired headphone and when I pressed a key, the sound was immediate.
When I plugged in my Bluetooth headset in the same jack, there was a delay.
The “half second” was just a guess and not “clocked”.

I could listen to my Ipod all day but I couldn’t compose new music using my Bluetooth combination.
Bluetooth-
Sony DR-BT101 headset and
Sony TMR-BT10 transmitter.

Ray Palmer, Engineer
Salt River Project
Phoenix, AZ
602-236-8224 office
Violence may not be the answer but it sure cuts down on the questions.

[Ray Palmer]

[Richard Crowley] “There was even a vendor at NAB a couple weeks ago showing a dongle that plugs into a standard Clear-Com (4-pin XLR) intercom headset jack to allow use of a common Bluetooth headset (like used for cell-phones.)”

I saw that vendor at NAB too. It worked ok but not as great as I had hoped.

Ray Palmer, Engineer
Salt River Project
Phoenix, AZ
602-236-8224 office
Violence may not be the answer but it sure cuts down on the questions.

[Ray Palmer]

We just used its big brother, HDX unit, for a week of aerials. We ran a Sony 1500 HD camera into the HDX and a Pannasonic 1400 deck at the same time.
The HDX recorder performed great.

Ray Palmer, Engineer
Salt River Project
Phoenix, AZ
602-236-8224 office
Violence may not be the answer but it sure cuts down on the questions.

[Ray Palmer]

Mark,
Are you aware that the Geo Stamp Plus will super the GPS on video?
It is limited to NTSC standard def.
https://www.icircuits.com/store/prod_osd_gpsoverlays.html

Suggestion-
Shoot in HD in the air with GPS through geo stamp and place GPS on the audio track.
Dub the tapes to SD through the Geo Stamp and record the GPS super on that video. Same Time code.
Let the client view the SD on any format he wants.
The time code should carefully be the same on all formats.

At any time he wants to view the footage in HD, use the same time code to locate that footage in HD.

Ray Palmer, Engineer
Salt River Project
Phoenix, AZ
602-236-8224 office
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