Michael McQueen

NP1 battery with a BDS. its a heavy investment but well worth it. bds kit http://www.trewaudio.com/store/product.php?productid=762&cat=120&page=1 np1 kit http://www.trewaudio.com/store/product.php?productid=745&cat=2&page=1 will run your mixer for daaaaays and power any other devices in your bag.

i saw another photo recently of someone sticking a dslr on a light stand as a tripod.

i picked up a used one last week and did a shoot this weekend, really love it. but yeah, getting used to the menu is kinda wonky, but just gota learn it.

i too am looking forward to this recorder. i never need TC on my shoots so its not a big deal. and if i needed TC then i could just get a jammer and stick it in an input panned right, with everything else left. a lot of my shoots will have multiple subjects mic'd so that would be very convenient.

here's a recent blog post i did using the 7d and my external run n gun/1 man band setup. This isn't the best audio setup, but for my 9-5'er it does what i need it to. its mostly targeted to dslr/audio n00bs. http://manglervision.com/post/428426204/hdslrworkflow

i heard that on NPR this afternoon, was going to post on here if any wilmywood crew are still using 700-800 range wireless and would see how this was affecting their signals.

while doing my 9-5 job(video producer at a news paper) i was covering the opening of a museum and smithsonian had a crew there. after the ribbon cutting their soundie got tripped and fell smack on his face. it was coooold as can be out there too. i hated it for him.

is the camera man supposed to man all 3 cameras too?

that new firmware you're hearing about is the magic lantern hack, but its far far from being in existence. the guy who does it has created a hack for the 5d that disables the auto gain control on the audio and adds 1 vu meter. but it is a hack, not canon certified. but a lot of user do rely on it professionally. here's the link to the wiki of it http://magiclantern.wikia.com/wiki/Magic_Lantern_Firmware_Wiki

one thing i love about my psc mixer is the 1/8" mic out. i just use a 1/8" to 1/8" cable. but for the 302 i think you'd have to incorporate either a custom cable out of the tape out/mix out(will that even work? or is it too hot of a level?) or run xlr's into a beachtek or a juicedlink box

John, how did you end up sending "best-quality" feed to camera? a lot of times when i'm doing a one man band deal with my 7D my setup will be this: wireless on talent(b6 on sennheiser g2) boom/mic on c-stand sent to psc m4 mkII mixer(boom left, lav right) xlr's to recorer(zoom h4) mic out calbe to 7D(i also have a splitter when i'm shooting with 2 7Ds) i've done that setup a few times and ended up using the "tape" audio probably 90% of the time.

put the receiver at -18db if you're going that route with the g2/g3, it will be a lot less noisier. i've actually used camera audio a few times that route and its worked(but only as a rushed edit). plural eyes is the best thing ever invented. just throw all the clips on a fcp timeline named "pluraleyes" along with the audio tracks, open 'er up and hit sync. go take a nap/eat dinner/play video games while it works for you. come back and boom, everything is synced and will have its own sequence. http://www.singularsoftware.com/pluraleyes.html and as far as syncing audio with the 5D, its mainly all about setting up the timeline properly, which most users fail to do and thats why you hear every talking about having to adjust the speed of the audio to 99.99%. here's a tut for it,

trew said they should be getting the 680 in a couple of weeks so it might be a good month or so before we hear anything about it. but on paper it looks pretty decent for a 6/8? track recorder. i'd def want a mixer in front of it.

let these dslr shooters do a film or two and then realize how bad their sound sucks trying to do it "1 man band" and then they'll hire a sound guy(hopefully....) and then realize how important sound really is to a film, next to the story of course... i shoot quite often with a 7d. a lot of sit down interview type of stuff, real simple for dual system/1 man band, but anything more than that you need dedicated person. i think these dslr rigs could help the sound industry by creating more of a need for our work on set. lets hope so!