Cameras... love them, hate them
- either way, we are doing "sound for picture"
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not really a sound focused topic, however i find the promo video for this camera fun to watch https://www.lily.camera
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Starting a feature with this camera end of the month. Anyone have any advice with regards timecode etc? We have some test days coming up but would be good to go into them with some idea of how it operates so far thinking Deneke sync box on the camera as experience says Sony is normally no good at holding time. Shame we're not using alexa...
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I know this is not a camera that we have to worry about hooking up sound to but I'm really impressed with the design and feature set of this new entry into the amazing world of GoPro. I could have fun with this!
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I am curious what happened to the 5D sticky? I can't seem to find it.
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Am shooting on an XF305 with Zax links and an Atomos Samurai reorder. Getting totally boned by ground loops around the battery pinch. Basically, I cannot power the camera and the links from the battery pinch at the same time without hearing hideous noise in the audio. Ground loop is so bad that it makes the Atomos drop-out periodically. Am presently working on a solution that bypasses the battery pinch and simply powers the solution from one of the D-TAPS's on the V-Lock. Unfortunately, I can't work a camera power solution in at this point. Have tried a DCDC converter to bypass the pinch and power the camera, but this is too noisy. Will probably grab a rectifier …
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Hi all, Have a show with loads of shooter directors running around with canon c-305 cameras on boats but need to mount a lectro 411a on each one. Have ppl had any ingenious mounting ideas. Have done some stuff with these sorts of cams before but just looking to see if other ideas are kicking about out there. The Cam's have fairly heavy bags on them and also I don't really want to mount them underneath but it's an option. All ideas welcome.
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f55 tc issue
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hey all. Currently shooting on an f55 at 24 fps. jamming from a 664 (on 24hr run) via an acl 203 lockit. camera tc settings are: ext preset, free run and external source pops as soon as the lockit is connected. post says that my separately recorded sound is ahead of 1 frame on every clip. am I missing anything here? Thanks.
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I've worked on Amirs before and haven't run into this problem. It is embedding 5 tracks of audio in every clip. I have been through every setting on the camera, and made sure to turn off channels 3 and 4 and still there are blank channels being recorded. So the merges in Da Vinci are crashing. While The BM folks have actually acknowledged that they have a merge/crash problem, we don't know if the above "5 tracks" problem is the cause. However, I'm guessing it is. They said they will get back to me...eventually...after the 5 day shoot is over I'm sure... I have confirmed the 5 track in each clip issue in multiple programs (Premiere, Da Vinci and FCP-X). It happ…
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Hi all, This is my first topic post after a long while of lurking and a few replies. I'm glad I finally have something worth posting about! I worked on my first shoot using a RED Dragon this past weekend. (Location was a small New York apartment for reference.) The camera had the 2.0 fan installed. I agreed with the 1st AC to set the fans to 35% for recording, as that has always been a happy position on all the RED Epic shoots I have worked on. During recording I noticed an awful high pitch whine, not loud but not pleasant either. At first I thought it was the result of the electronic HMI ballasts being used. The next lighting setup used all tungsten unit…
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYWiv_55kvE It looks like they changed the whole fan path, finger crossed it will be better. The sound inputs will be made with different modules. From the Tyniest one (stereo minijack) to full XLRs. Prores internal recording is also poken and Vista vision (as an option?). More infos
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Hey all, First for everything but I ran into a situation a few weeks ago where for the life of me could not jam the Red Epic. We tried two different sync boxes and two different cables. One of the cables was the 3 coloured BNC deal (yes we used the yellow one for timecode sync) and one was made by a reputable company that deals with Location Audio Products. Nothing. No green light on the TC . Someone else been running into this? The guy who owned the camera just shrugged and said he had just updated the software.. B
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A bmc owner sent me this today:
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I thought I remember seeing this somewhere but I was unable to find it on the forums. Have any of you had trouble with the C300 when it is using something like an external V-lock battery or Anton Bauer to power everything while also powering your camera hop off of it's D-Tap or hirose? The one time I had to do this I remember getting a pretty nasty ground loop and had to power my QRX via its own battery. I thought someone may have posted a solution to this, or maybe not, but I was unable to find anything in a search. Has anyone ran into this and have a solution?
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After a days work is done you can put the gear to good use
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http://www.arri.de/news/arri-amira-unveiled/ Arri announced a new documentary style camera. Wow! There's no specification on the audio inputs yet, but it looks like they could be TA3 connectors. Maybe that's a question for Bash to ask at the IBC? Looks nice! I've always longed for a camera to replace the XDCAMs in the ENG world. Maybe that day finally has come...
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Hi Mixers, Does anyone know about Time Code settings shooting 24p on the Canon XF305 cameras? This camera allegedly only accepts 29.97 TC, even while recording in other frame rates. The camera's manual states: "When other functions (24p) the frames value in the time code runs from 0 to 23" For other settings it runs from 0 to 29" ok I'd like my Audio TC frame rate to match the frame rate of the video files that end up in the editing room. So my plan is to cross jam the camera with a Lockit box set to 29.97ndf , but run my TC on the recorder at 23.98ndf The mystery is that I don't really know what TC the resulting video files will ultimately have. I'm just gue…
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Hi all, I have been asked to do sound on a 5D shoot. - Mk2 or Mk3 (TBD). - Sometimes a pair of 5Ds. - It is documentary. - We will shoot in Armenia. - No post house on board yet. - Editor not yet confirmed. - Likely to stay like that until we return from Armenia. - First production meeting Saturday. I have some obvious concerns about sync. - I have only one Lockit. - My pair of Tentacle Sync boxes might not arrive by then. So plan is: ERX on each 5D; - 5D Left track - scratch mix (for PluralEyes) - 5D Right track - TC (for AuxTC Reader) For the interviews this seems fine (they will be boarded) For the event coverage (marches, concert etc) w…
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Just putting a scratch track down to camera, and finding it's too low at line level, and too hot at mic level - any thoughts? How are most people running there ERX's?
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So I have worked with the Canon C300, and jammed my recorder to the camera. How do I jam with a Canon 1DC? I have a 664 recorder. Is there a timecode input/output on the camera? I know that the C500 has one.
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Site is unreachable right now for me: http://www.arri.com/alexamini Up to 200 framerate and 4K UHD...
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Yep. Dragon does not sync... I tried every voltage from ERX. Hard line from maxx. Denecke jam box...nothing... Good job RED...learning from past mistakes much?
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TC in and TC out. Exchangble PL EF B4 mounts. BIG METERS on the side...
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Just what is the deal with the menus in the Sony F55? Why do they make time slow to a crawl when accessing them? What is the point of a wheel-driven menu system that is so latent that you overshoot the line you want EVERY time? Why when you are trying to trim audio sensitivity does it show you some arbitrary scale only, and not the actual camera audio input levels as well? I really dislike having to get way into menus to set audio levels in and out. I could live with the menu thing if I didn't always feel history passing me by as I SLOWLY cycle through the menus to do what I need to do... philp
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Sony has introduced two new models in their Cine Alta-series of cameras, F5 and F55. F5 is a significant upgrade over F3. F55 is positioned below F65 in the product line. The audio inputs and timecode are on separate modules. IMHO, they really did their homework on this one. I think that these will sell like hot cakes. To quote: "The connections you need The camera offers vital connections, including four HD-SDI jacks, HDMI®, USB, DC IN connection, a removable XLR audio module and a removable time code/genlock module. The XLR inputs accept balanced analog signals, provide 48-Volt phantom power and will accept four channels of AES/EBU digital audio wi…
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Just caught a column on the website 4KShooters.net on how some people are jury-rigging the Sony A7S -- which is a very fine still camera -- to shoot "4K" shorts and other projects. The only problem is, by the time you add all the crap to it in order to make the camera workable for timecode, monitoring, sound, follow-focus, batteries, etc., what you wind up with is this: As opposed to, say, the Arri Amira: Tell me which one makes more sense!
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