Bruce Allen

I have pre-ordered several GH4s (without YAGH add-ons). If anyone from jwsound wants to play with them when they arrive, give me a shout. This site is a goldmine of information for me (not primarily an audio guy, just a normal filmmaker) so I'd love to pay it back a bit. I took one look at the YAGH and thought "hmm... I'd rather put that $2K towards something from Sound Devices or Zaxcom..." Maybe Sound Devices will announce a 4K HDMI recorder that works with it (Atomos already have - and they have 2 channels of XLR with pre-amps, plus 8 channels of digital, presumably from the HD-SDI option - http://www.atomos.com/shogun/) My other thought was instead of the YAGH, get a Zaxcom QRX200 wireless receiver and plug that in to the GH4's minijack audio input. Monitor that feed via headphones plugged into the GH4. Send audio to it from TRX742 and / or TRXLA2 / TRXLT2, recording backup to SD card. Most of the time the audio feed from the QRX200 should be good... but in case of emergency or if you want better quality, go to the SD card backups and sync via Pluraleyes. Is that an utterly crazy idea? Otherwise, could run around with my 702T... but somehow the light weight setup of the GH4 kinda inspired me. Bruce Allen www.boacinema.com

That's a good point - I'm used to timecode tracks as audio thanks to Avid but most folks and many software packages don't seem to even know it exists. And yes, this pretty much explains why anyone shooting something with a production below the "we can rent a TC slate" level just gives me PluralEyes stuff. I wish that weren't the case but thanks for confirming. Bruce Allen www.boacinema.com

Thank you for this thread. I am usually on the post-production editing side of things and was amazed at all of this PluralEyes nonsense. "Why don't they just shoot dual system and send timecode as audio on one track, and a mono mix on the other track?" I thought. Then I tried to actually set this up and it dawned on me that this isn't exactly plug and play. L channel = mix from SD702T R channel = timecode as analog audio (with pad) So I need to do this: 1. TC out from SD702T -> 5-pin Lemo -> XLR -> pad? (-10db? -30db?) -> minijack (left) 2. Tape out or XLR out from SD702T -> -pad? (-10db? -30db?) -> somehow combine L+R signals -> minijack (right) Oh boy. It's not like you can get a nice kit for that - and the cables wouldn't be cheap either. No wonder all of the DSLR folks (who are often a bit new and also lack money for fancy $100 lemo cables) don't do things properly. At the end of the day, it might be a better investment just to get a Lockit box and / or a wireless setup? Am I missing something really simple here? Thank you. Bruce Allen www.boacinema.com