Pedro Van der Eecken Posted July 28, 2013 Report Share Posted July 28, 2013 Hello all, has anyone experience with the F55? We are going to shoot a TV series with 2 of those cameras for the first time. In the last few years we worked a lot with the Arri Alexa and this camera has a stable timecode generator (build by Ambient) Our workflow with the Arri is to sync them regularly (2 to 4 times a day or when there is a TC drop after a battery change) with our Aaton Cantar recorder that runs as TC-Master. The sync is done using a Denecke Syncbox. The Camera than runs in free-run synced on the incoming TC. This works very good and is really stable. I was wondering if the internal generator of the F55 is that stable. Or do we have to provide a Denecke Syncbox on every camera permanently connected to them? We know these sync-boxes do the job, but does the F55 it? Thank you in advance for the input! Kind regards from Belgium, Pedro Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TimPitot Posted July 28, 2013 Report Share Posted July 28, 2013 I have been a on job using one since early this year. I have not done any tests re stability but assumed its probably about as solid as the F800 etc - ie not massively stable. Syncing a few times a day, or if I'm feeling diligent ill slap on an SB-T. No complaints from post as yet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RadoStefanov Posted July 28, 2013 Report Share Posted July 28, 2013 As stable as ex3 I use jamboxes to be sure . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Blankenship Posted July 29, 2013 Report Share Posted July 29, 2013 I just put a sync box on both F55s. See page 62 of the F55 manual for settings: 1 Set “Timecode” in the TC/UB menu as follows: Mode: Preset Run: Free Run 2 Confirm that the TC IN/OUT switch (page 13) is set to IN, then supply an HD or SD reference video signal to the GENLOCK IN connector (page 13) and the reference timecode to the TC connector (page 13). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
studiomprd Posted July 29, 2013 Report Share Posted July 29, 2013 " Thank you in advance for the input! " you could do some testing... or just be 'safe'... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pedro Van der Eecken Posted July 31, 2013 Author Report Share Posted July 31, 2013 Thank you all for the replies! We will do some testing, but to be safe we'll provide 2 sync-boxes on this shoot... please do not hesitate to post your personal experiences here... Kind regards from Belgium Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
studiomprd Posted July 31, 2013 Report Share Posted July 31, 2013 " Kind regards from Belgium " send chocolates... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Blankenship Posted July 31, 2013 Report Share Posted July 31, 2013 " Kind regards from Belgium " send chocolates... Only to those who actually helped. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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