IronFilm Posted July 15, 2018 Report Share Posted July 15, 2018 Am shooting a feature film at the moment with 2x Sony PMW-F3, and yesterday I couldn't get timecode working at all with A Cam. Because they're F3 cameras which only do 8 bit internal but have 10 bit external, we were only using external recording with them. I had no problem at all having correct timecode on B Cam's recorder, but we were using an SDI recorder on that one. However was impossible for me to get it working on the day with the A Cam recorder which was an HDMI one. Has any one else encountered issues before with timecode from a Sony PMW-F3 over HDMI? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IronFilm Posted July 17, 2018 Author Report Share Posted July 17, 2018 Well, after digging into this it seems to be the consensus that the F3 is "too old" and didn't have TC as part of its HDMI output (as the original HDMI specs for the standard didn't initially support TC) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Blankenship Posted July 17, 2018 Report Share Posted July 17, 2018 Sony doesn't always adhere to standards anyway. They have current cameras with (so-called) AES inputs designed to work with their wireless receivers, but not all others. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IronFilm Posted July 20, 2018 Author Report Share Posted July 20, 2018 Got a 2nd SDI recorder for the next day of shooting, an Atomos Shogun Inferno: On 7/18/2018 at 2:30 AM, John Blankenship said: Sony doesn't always adhere to standards anyway. They have current cameras with (so-called) AES inputs designed to work with their wireless receivers, but not all others. Oh, that is not good to hear. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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