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Todd Weaver

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  1. These past several days have been hard in the wake of the Connecticut school massacre. I can't remember any single event in the past that has had such an emotional impact on me especially concerning complete strangers. Feeling that something must be done to control such an event from happening again is understandable. However, there is simply no way to control this type of violence with any legislation whatsoever. If some lunatic has it in his heart to do this type of evil, there is no way of preventing it. An assailant armed with any of the murder weapons listed on the cartoon posted by Jaymz could be used in an attack against the public with success. Depending on the intent of the person who wields them, any of those items can be used for good or evil. Clearly anyone shot in the head with an assault rifle would be just as dead as someone shot with a hunting rifle, or a pistol, or a muzzle loading musket. Controlling what specific types of firearms the public is allowed to carry won’t change this fact nor is it what the founding fathers had in mind when they put the second amendment in the bill of rights. Gun control only serves to disarm the peaceful law abiding citizen. Criminals will find a way regardless of what some piece of legislation says. "The laws that forbid the carrying of arms are laws of such a nature. They disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes.... Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man." 
-Thomas Jefferson (quoting 18th century criminologist Cesare Beccaria) In 1995 Timothy McVeigh murdered 168 people, including 19 children with some fertilizer and a bit of Diesel fuel. Weapons control would not have changed this. On September 11, 2001 heartless and cowardly murderers ended 2,977 human lives along with their own employing commercial jetliners. They were armed only with box cutters. Perhaps if some of the passengers or the flight crews were allowed to carry firearms none of the planes would have reached their targets. "A free people ought not only to be armed and disciplined, but they should have sufficient arms and ammunition to maintain a status of independence from any who might attempt to abuse them, which would include their own government." - George Washington The alternate use of the assault rifle is this. These type of weapons are at least some small type of deterrent against a tyrannical government . It seems that so many people these days in the US are completely missing the primary purpose of the second amendment. It is not for hunters. It is not for sports shooters. It is an essential component to maintaining our basic liberties. The very same liberties that made this nation a magnet to such a wide range of immigrants last century. The purpose is to prevent the government from ever again becoming a force of tyranny against it’s own people. If you don’t think it could happen, think again. "To disarm the people is the most effectual way to enslave them." -George Mason
  2. This is my new design for our tshirts. Hopefully everyone will get one for Christmas.
  3. Often I find myself pushing them limits of my recorders and all my wireless (thats quite a few). Definaty need more than 8 tracks for the crowd I've been shooting with lately. Not to hijack the thread too much but, what would the benefits be of upgrading to the 96i from the 96 other than USB connectivity?
  4. These look interesting. The address listed for the manufacturer is very near me. I'll contact them and see if they will bring some out to the studio for testing.
  5. My boom op is always in the shot.
  6. Ever get sick of hearing the DP or Director call out boom in the shot? Especially when getting slates, or amidst the handheld camera framing up to the ceiling as the operator adjusts himself...
  7. Is there any way to recover a false start take that was deleted on the Deva 5? Apparently if you press false start then enter, it deletes the take without further confirmation.
  8. Jeff, I'm using the DV824 as an overkill backup machine. It can record up to 8 tracks with a similar AES signal that is being fed into the Deva. I send wordclock from the Deva which drives the 824 and the O1V96 sample rate clocks. I've always used movie slate in the vertical position, orginally to reduce the footprint of the cart to avoid being smacked by passers-by. Now the verticle posistion also helps me see all active channels when Im running high track counts.
  9. Shot on one yesterday. Was easy to hookup. Timecode on BNC showed a lock as soon as the cable was plugged in. XLR guide track was easy to set up and adjust. Camera was quiet. Never did get headphone out to work on the body, just from the SDI monitor that was onboard.. Oh well... The camera guys seemed a little underimpressed, but the image I saw coming from it looked nice enough.
  10. That's great guys! I was thinking that would probably do the trick, but it (usually) never hurts to ask! Thanks.
  11. I think I still have epoxy stuck under my fingernails.
  12. Does anyone have an expierience recording to a DEVA via the AES inputs being fed from the 01v96? The mixer on my cart provides wordclock to my recorders, however there is no option to set the sample rate to 48048 on the board. Should I be using the DEVA as the master clock and forcing the 01v96 to run off the pulled up sample rate? Will this result in any audio artifacts? Any thoughts or comments?
  13. I bought 10. I'll post my results. Wearing my tinfoil hat in the meantime.
  14. I love my 01V96 BTW. Where are you guys getting your colored fader knobs?
  15. What are the pin outs on the 4pin for bulding a TC input cable for the EPIC?
  16. I use a Y splitter cable for timecode running into the 552. The 552 takes the TA3F and another end has a BNC for connection to a Deneke SB3 (which works great and is affordable). The other end is a five pin lemo for taking timecode from 788,744,71616,etc.. Watch for the blue LED that should light up solid when valid time code is being received by the 552 and eat your veggies.
  17. Yeah! Block 22 is in the sweet spot in the USA. The FCC has stuck HDTV on part of block 27, and all of blocks 28 and 29 in The States forcing me to cry continuously into my 01V. -TW
  18. I've cross bread lectro and sennheisers a few times out of necessity, but I believe that the sound quality suffers due to the fact that the companders are different in each circuit. Also the pilot tone is not recognized when trying to receive lectro broadcast on sennheiser receivers. But, that can be turned off if you don’t mind earsplitting static that is not being squelched should the signal degrade. The emulation on the 400 series and the VRS/VRTs is supposed to be ok for receiving sennheisers. I've seen it in real life.
  19. I’m trying to remote roll a dv-824 and a PD6 simultaneously with one switch. I was reading in the fostex manuals about how when certain pins are grounded the functions are supposed to be activated.. IE RECORD, STOP.. I built a switch with a 3PDT toggle to control a GREEN/RED LED and separate ground to record and stop pins for two machines.. The LED works fabulously, but sadly the devices are not responding.. Does anyone know what I may have done wrong? All the connections are going where they are supposed to according to the manual.
  20. I've got a DV-824 and i'm running a PD6/ex12 for backup and one fostex remote roll switch. Has anyone seen a simple splitter that will work to roll and stop both machines simulatiously?
  21. I'm shooting on an F3 next week. Do I need to use a sync box, or is the camera jammable with a solid onboard clock?
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