Todd Weaver

You can fix that noisy slider with a hacksaw for docs and reality. On bigger budget shows you would use a sawzall.

Is it just me, or is Jimmy Fallon not even anywhere close to being funny?

I had to move my nomad on top to make it easier to get at the CF card slot. In the bottom of the bag it gets a bit tricky.

I did notice that noise on the output, I've noticed it on my MacBook Pro sometimes as well. To remedy without using a separate isolated supply, I just ran all of my audio back out using Dante and out of my mixer. It's super clean and makes for less cables routing everything. It integrates playback audio and LTC perfectly into the cart running a DAW on the mac.

Exactly my thinking. I don't like working with dishonest people and I have to work with myself everyday. Besides, they pay more for my equipment than they do for me. I don't want to throw the kit under the bus. But seriously, your reputation is what you rely on for future work. There really is no point in investing in a ton of equipment and of your time learning a craft if you can't form lasting relationships with the ones who place their trust in you enough to hire you. Respect is not earned by making excuses and blame shifting. If you do a fantastic job consistently and play nice with others, you may find it unnecessary to try to cover up your rare mistake with cheap and transparent excuses.

I'll try to get that from Howy as soon as I wrap on the show I'm on so I can play with it without boning myself.

Sickening.

Yes.

Somehow I think the production company might not think they are getting their monies worth if I did that.

Peeling the wrapper is not a good idea. That's a real quick way to short stuff out inside your expensive gear and don't even think of putting one in your pocket with your keys or another battery. You could burn your man parts! The wrapper is the only thing insulating the ground from the positive voltage if something was to touch across that millimeter gap between the two. Use a sharpie.

I found four and a charger on eBay shipping from US under $40. I may try those lithium 1.5v batts out just to see.

I cracked open an old Mac mini this evening and the power supply is completely different. Looks like most of it is housed in that external brick.

Richard, how is that JoeCo box? I was looking into it, but I didn't see a way to easily enter metadata.

Brilliant!

My new touchscreen monitor for my mac mini on the cart has a USB port on the front, it's like starting your car with keys.

I laughed!

The feed that I send to the video assist is right off my console through his apogee preamp into his software. Way better quality that the audio sections of most cameras. I don't often send scratch tracks, but when I do.. I make em scratchy!

It's the same physical switch I've been using for remote roll for about two years. It has some different wiring and circuitry added now. It's a simple toggle switch that works great, I just failed to activate it properly.

I would have have pulled the zaxcom tracks from the packs, but alas, they roll with the machines. The machines don't roll, nothing gets recorded.

I find some solace when reading the transfer reports and see things like no roll on camera several times a week.. I'm sure the operating was fantastic, but you still have to press that little red button.

I've got that coverage.. It facilitates that temporary license for fire,loss,etc. I used it once and it was a huge pain and took quite some time to implement. Once you use it, you have to buy the coverage again. Not exactly ideal when under the gun on a 15 minute precall when they want playback for the rehearsal 10 minutes before call. It's a good idea to keep a copy of audacity on the machine just in case. I think my point is that I just want to bitch about ilok copy protection and Avid's policies concerning such. That insurance is basically an emergency replacement policy and is only good for a limited time before it deactivates, so I maintain, you break the iLok to the point the serial number is unreadable or lose it.. Tuff luck said the kitty. The license loaded on that cheap, fragile, small, easily lost iLok is what they sell. The software is free. A second ilok with separate licenses loaded is the only way I feel covered if I want to use Pro Tools on set and not have to take a metaphoric fist full of Xanax.

I hate to admit this, but I had a take not record for the first half on a pretty intensive circled take with a 20 minute background and animal reset and only one or two opportunities to shoot it. I didn't quite push the roll switch all the way up and didn't notice it for about 30 seconds. I mixed the take perfectly and it sounded great, but half of the track wasn't on my machines. A world of pain and cross eyed looks could be on its way to me.. Until I remembered that I have a good hard line signal going to my buddy Dan from Videohawks. I walked over to Dan with my hat in my hand and gave him a thumb drive (with my free hand) and politely asked that he give me the playback .mov copy of the take. I exported the audio to a wav file using QuickTime, I dumped the strange .wav file to the proper sample rate as a mono mix in protools, I used an editing program to discover the first frame of time code from the slate, then wave agent to replace time code stamps and metadata on my new backup audio file. Made a note in the report and added the file to the Deva CF and voila. Took about 5 minutes to cover my ass. Dan consoled me and assured me that mixers don't roll on stuff all the time.. I hope that isn't true! I heard not a peep from the dailies dept, so all is well. Im not in the habit of such magnitude of screwup, but I thought I would share a little bit of a fix for such a situation should it happen to you on a shoot with video assist.

I don't see how the 12v supply would be any different than the factory PSU other than that it isn't as well regulated. I was counting on the logic board to have a tolerance range for that. There doesn't appear to be any active control circuitry in the factory power supply that could effect anything adversely in its abscence. I didn't crack it open yet, so I can't be sure. However, it has been working perfectly. The 2014 revision power supply is the same as the 2012 model. As far as boom recorder goes, I've not been using it for anything other than testing, but it has rolled reliably alongside my other machines rolling multiple tracks over Dante VSC for several days now. The only test left to do is give those tracks a good listen to make sure the Schoeps don't sound like Rode and the DPA's don't sound like Trams or anything like that.

Yup. Lithium batteries don't fair much better..

Here is a quick video of the remote roll working with all of this.