Christopher Mills

Just worked with an F5 yesterday.. despite both input channels being set to mic... they required radically different ammounts of gain on the internal settings to avoid clipping.. Operator advised me not to try line in. as it "was even worse" I will be working with them again in a couple weeks, and will have more time to explore.. And yes... I did send a test tone in line level from a 442... results were bizzare, and the switches on all devices were double checked.. Again.. will test more in a couple weeks.

have seen a couple mixers using this on tv series work in town.. and another with their CL wifi for controlling an SD recorder The cart had three Ipads on brackets. seemed to work well

look.. You are seeing why this is in its price point.. to create a tc lock, you will need actual master clocks on both devices.. the ones I have experience with are made by Denecke and Ambient. I suggest either one. this will increase the price of your setup, and will make it more reliable and professional project frinedly. there are some design characteristics that will always keep this off my list of primary recorders, but I can see how many people could make do with it. However, I think that the price of accessories needed to make it inter operable in a shoot with the SD and Zax portable recorders in this track range will end up making the price identical, and be much more cumbersome. Now, on to the C-300 shoot I did.. the single camera shoot, where I had a lockit on the camera yielded substantially matching time code on audio files and picture files.. and I don't care what the readout looks like... (many cameras, including the Alexa, have the display lagging behind the internal files). When we resorted to periodic re-jaming a B-Cam C-300 without a lockit, our results were spotty.. apparently pulling and reinstalling media can introduce drift as well as powering down the camera, and possibly touching other controls on the camera than record..

More congratulations from Atlanta! Great Work! CM

I guess I should reconsider the biz card.. haven't had one this millennium Obviously, from my posts today I have had too much spare time..

No.. A video of you telling someone to plug in a light, and then back to Angry Birds

"it depends" I'm sticking with lavs muted when talent is not rehearshing or shooting, however.

I furnish a list, and have production buy them. I wonder if some productions might consider the lav mics for specific leads to be a show purchase that would be a company asset at end of shoot. This is because some talent do not want to wear a mic someone else wears.

well.. on one shooting day he did have me rejam the b cam every 40 minutes or so.. when it was needed for an alternate angle on interviews. He's an experienced editor, but the client would only pay for one lockit.

The C300 is so inaccurate that... I didn't bother measuring it editor producer on a shoot I did late spring told me his test showed it to be hopeless, and we applied a lockit box immediately..

While I am sure I would prefer to deal with this camera on EPK gigs, my clients have already sunk below xdcam.. to the fs100 and fs700 (yes, these are for dvd extras and EPK interviews for real studios and real networks). On the other hand , that has solidified a recordist/mixer rate for me.

so.. no problem! just get yourself some dish antennae for each client.. I am thinking they'd make nifty hats!

+1 my BST units are 50mw, and I can remote the antennae for better range. My main concern on the anchor system is the permanent antennae on tx unit.. do they make a Base Station at higher wattage? if so..then some shoots may see these.. though I have no idea where to rent the inevitable extras I might need..

Around here, some folks consider "Scripty" to be a belittling term on its own....

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Well... I would be using the note space in the metadata... and am likely to say "slated as" in the notes for my 2nd, 3rd, etc files until we get to the next letter.. then my notes to post would reflect this. so.. my files for that scene number would disagree with scripty... sorry... editor might find a use for part of either sound or picture on that, esp since camera isn't going to delete that file..

I find it low end for pro jobs (and yes, I have used an R4PRo in the past, which is clearly in the development history of this machine) because: 1)Workflow required by this machine to mesh with what studios/networks/pros houses want is compromises and workarounds. pro gear can let you hand over a media storage unit and walk away at wrap. 2)It has a plastic case and controls. the pro competitors have metal casing. 3)timecode stability is not yet proven. until it is (and eventually it may be) it will be percieved as low end 4)Battery life. You must use an external BDS to get decent run times out of this. Not a deal killer, as most pro setups do this anyway, even with good internal power run times. kudos to Roland for using one of the standard external power plugs (again) 5) There are no reviews yet praising the sound of the pre-amps. you will find many such reviews of the two higher end competitors (SD and Zax). If such reviews emerge, provided by trusted reviewers, the industry perception of this recorder will improve. 6) the lack of ability to use slate mike as talkback when rolling is a problem for this as a standalone recorder/mixer. HOWEVER its low end pro gear, not high end consumer gear. It's far above zoom and fostex's current offerings.. I have not compared this to Tascam's top of the line (HS82).. It certainly has much better functionally than the Tascam 680. If you are in a smaller market, or the internal AV dept of a company, this may get done what you need. But I think you'll only be happy with it if you are controlling the entire audio post chain. Perhaps time will reveal this to be a bargain in location recording.

September is the new April

In our global economy, all the states in the US are missing out on a very big point: Any country that wishes can afford to put up buildings in which to place the standing sets of a television program. It takes about 30-90 days to train a department 3rd to a basic level of competency for this kind of production. If you just import cast, and at first department heads, it would be very possible to beat every state's tax incentives. The language and ethnicity of the crew are irrelevant to the market of exhibition of entertainment media. As publicly traded companies are obligated to maximize profit, they would then need to send their project out of the country entirely. Runaway production from LA to other states is nothing near what could happen if say, Mainland China and SE Asia wanted the business....

I am the business partner to an experienced entertainment and intellectual property attorney in a development company. I checked with him regarding copyright rules. You are the copyright holder of the sound recording of the performance in question fromthe moment you hit record.

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This is a little lower than most PBS stuf I have seen this year... WGBH was willing to go $650/day for this amount of gear without a "high quality" hop to camera... I say.. you can have a hardline to camera for this price. ($650day for this grade of customer with 2 wires, and a boom, and reference track hop (g2,g3,comtek) or hardline..

Very sorry for your loss.

no, you're not investing in a kickstarter project (at present). You are donating money because you like the project and/or the premiums. thanks to all who donated to the ones I am part of... you are not an investor, and I don't expect my projects to ever make a profit Spike is also able to get private investors.. but they'd likely want to discuss the project content, which may not yet be locked. He polarizes people and I don't always agree with him.... but my concern with his project, that will be commerically offered, is that I will have a smaller chance of a bona fide film industry funding source considering to underwrite my projects. "Hey, if more established pros than you use crowdfunding, why should we fund your movie?"