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ERX2TCD v1.33


JonG

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Any news on whether this version will allow the red dragon to operate on 23.98? I haven't found any documentation on it (not here nor the Zaxcom web site, and nobody on the phone in the tech dept at zax knew either).

Thanks in advance!

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Curious to know if transmitting 23.98, 29.97 at the erx and driving the dragon set at 23.98 is a valid work around? Burned clips with a slate to check. I still cant get an editor to confirm this for me unfortunately. But this has been the only way i have been able to get the green tc to light up. To the naked eye it appears to be i sync at full seconds. I called zaxcom to discuss this a while back and at the time it was believed to be the case but yet to be proven. I am going with it in the meantime because it appeared to work on several jobs thus far

Ken

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After making the update, I found that some settings were changed, while others remained. The only setting I saw changed so far was that the TC output level was reset to minimum, which had me stumped when my Denecke slate wouldn't jam or read TC. But that was a quick fix, and no time was lost on set.

 

It did not jam the Dragon however, but I was able to jam it from my Denecke slate, so time was kept after all, it just required a little extra effort.

 

I don't know if it matters, but I am using a Denecke TS-2sb with the 23.98 update. Rado said he couldn't jam a Dragon with his slate, which I am assuming is a more recent model than my own, but I think it is possible that since the 4-pin lemo on the camera is finicky, a proper re insertion and a jiggle may allow some of his devices to work, though I wouldn't put it past him to have already tried :)

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I don't know if it matters, but I am using a Denecke TS-2sb with the 23.98 update. Rado said he couldn't jam a Dragon with his slate, which I am assuming is a more recent model than my own, but I think it is possible that since the 4-pin lemo on the camera is finicky, a proper re insertion and a jiggle may allow some of his devices to work, though I wouldn't put it past him to have already tried :)

Jon I don't think this is the case. I have a TS3 and it sometimes jams the dragon and not others. To recap from a previous post of mine. Red have emailed me to say they have located the problem within the camera and are working on a fix and will have new firmware in 3-4 weeks. It is not the lemo as we have a rig with BNC as well and the same thing. We can get external timecode into the Dragon reliably with a Tig and Lockits but not Denecke or Zax.

Tony

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