Pedro Van der Eecken

Thank you all for the replies! We will do some testing, but to be safe we'll provide 2 sync-boxes on this shoot... please do not hesitate to post your personal experiences here... Kind regards from Belgium

Hello all, has anyone experience with the F55? We are going to shoot a TV series with 2 of those cameras for the first time. In the last few years we worked a lot with the Arri Alexa and this camera has a stable timecode generator (build by Ambient) Our workflow with the Arri is to sync them regularly (2 to 4 times a day or when there is a TC drop after a battery change) with our Aaton Cantar recorder that runs as TC-Master. The sync is done using a Denecke Syncbox. The Camera than runs in free-run synced on the incoming TC. This works very good and is really stable. I was wondering if the internal generator of the F55 is that stable. Or do we have to provide a Denecke Syncbox on every camera permanently connected to them? We know these sync-boxes do the job, but does the F55 it? Thank you in advance for the input! Kind regards from Belgium, Pedro

Geert again on the set of 'Hasta La Vista'

Geert Vlegels my Boomop almost 10 years ago on the set of 'Alias'

I do all the time. All our TC cables are wired with a bridge between pin 2 and pin 5 in the lemo connector. Those cables can act as IN and OUT. The only issue that I have encountered with these cables is on the RED-camera when the TC-out option is on and you put external TC to it, the camera refuses to lock as it 'sees' it's own TC on the Input. Just toggle off the TC-out option in the RED menu and you are set. You just need a really small soldering iron with enough power (e.g 70 - 100W) and a firm hand kind regards from Belgium Pedro