johnpaul215

Philip- that's cool to hear. I rarely hear anything from post. On doc/reality I'll hear if there's some workflow (sync) problems. That's about it. On scripted work I rarely hear anything. I've worked with one producer a few times that keeps me informed to a degree, but bits and pieces of info. I recently got a text about something we did in October/November just telling me that the dialog recorded from a specific free driving scene is staying.

Sounds awesome! Wish I could make it out.

On films, I mix. I mix indies and they usually use my mix for the final product. When I first went from a 2-track recording to a Fostex PD-6, I wondered if my actual mixing days were over and it was just for comteks..... and if I was mixing out of habit. Fortunately a few producers told me they were using my production mix for most everything. Reality TV totally depends on the production company workflow. Some want to use the field mix, some have is mixing for reference on camera and IFB to keep everyone in the loop with what's happening (camera ops, producers, note takers etc). If nobody was going to really use my mix, I wouldn't have spent the cash on a Mix 12 for my Deva Fusion, and I wouldn't have used a Mix8 or Oasis on the latest scripted work I did. Obviously different projects have different workflows. The scripted stuff I do probably doesn't have the budget to remix the whole project, and have been told they didn't need to. I'm sure some projects budget a complete post remix long before the first shot is taken. Some will try to use our dialogue mix as a source for their mix of score and whatever else.

Is not just speed, it's compatibility of the card itself (seems the "standards" are not absolute when cards are made). That also goes for recorders from Zaxcom, Sound Devices, Fostex etc.

Good to hear about the car use. That would be the main reason I get one. They sounded really good when I listened to them (on the Trew Audio Atlanta showroom floor).

Worked fine from my iPhone.

Ah yes! I've also found that plastic piece rattling around, but never found the associated capacitor. Maybe it fell out the battery door.

Agree! Though you can turn it off in the SM series. Very useful to disable it if your SM is a camera hop, or IFB, transmitter

I did a 17 day job with it. I had an audio cable made to feed it a mono mix from my ERX. Worked fine, timecode worked fine as well. Never had any real issues. Maybe 2 or 3 times we had to unplug the TC Lemo and reconnect it to jam. No idea why that happened, but it did. For whatever reason the camera didn't automatically take a jam after a battery change or boot up. Just something to keep an eye on. Usually I left the ERX on at the end of the day and just swapped batteries. Post was syncing audio from my Nomad as we went and said everything worked, except those few times TC didn't take jam, if we rolled before catching it.

Sorry for your loss Jeff. His impact will be timeless.

They look great!

Could it be that their F8 is on a different firmware? That is a possible cause of the issue. Maybe Zoom either added support for more cards, or broke support for those card (that wasn't on their approved list anyway). If the supported cards are readily available, why not just use those and know they'll work as you do firmware updates? I realize you're trying to make sure your unit is 100%, but I don't know how valid that test is with unsupported media.

As far as I know, all current hobby UAVs are 2.4GHz and 5.8GHz, but the range of these Amazon drones implies something else. Those "anti-drone guns" just cause them to lose data connection to the controller. I have a DJI Phantom 3, and if that happens it can't be "remotely brought down". If I throw the controller in a swimming pool, or turned it off, the quadcopter would go to a preset height and return to the "home" location (where it took off from). presumably the authorities could follow it and find the owner. With the Amazon ones, the course would be set before they leave the warehouse, but maybe cellular/LTE in case they need to recall them or change course. Maybe a control tower could talk to them enough to keep up communications. That few mile range is questionable. These things are big, so I wonder how how viable it is for this. That tech is being used to take things like meds to remote places, and that's incredible.

It's currently a felony "to interfere with an aircraft", and as of now they are considered "aircraft". So bringing it down in any way would qualify as that. My understanding is that people have been charged with that.

It'll record MP3s to the CF card. I don't like doing it because it seems to really slow down mirroring. Maybe that's gotten better, I don't know. I actually never tried recording them to an external USB flash drive. Coincidently around the time I upgraded my Nomad to a 12, I stopped working for my one remaining client that always wanted MP3s. The others apparently just make them from the wave files. If you use Nomad Touch, then yes, it would be analog. using an analog output of the Nomad (HP2?) to the tablet's mic jack.

I wonder if they would sign a $500,000 agreement with you if you do not get your check on time.

I live in Philadelphia, so no choke point of a bridge or anything. The one thing you have going for you is that call times are usually before rush-hours anyway. That makes a huge difference. I haven't worked in New York for a while, and when I did it was usually jobs that I could take a train. New Jersey transit wine goes from New York Penn station all the way to Trenton. As a Philadelphian, I would park in Hamilton and take the train into NYC. For jobs with more gear, I am usually staying in Brooklyn and going up the day before it starts. I don't really know what it's like to come from the bridge into Philadelphia during morning rush hour. The Waze GPS nav app is usually fairly accurate. You're also not for from that part of New Jersey where pretty much every single pharmaceutical company has a campus. Again, I don't work up there a lot, but every so often I go up there for corporate stuff. I know some people have pretty much retuned their career to work on those jobs. It's a lot of steady predictable work if you catch the right wave..... If that's your thing.

Wow, glad to hear you're on the road to recovery!

Hey, It's up and down. What kind of work do you do? A lot of NY and LA companies will fly in their crews over hiring locals. They stick with what they know. Same way a company that knows me will send me to NYC or Los Angeles or Utah or Texas or whatever. Big difference versus NYC is that everyone here has a car, so our market is NYC, NJ, this half of PA, Delaware. If you're Union, that's all 52's territory as well. There's a good amount of industrial/corporate work. I usually do that between longer jobs, but I'm not as heavily rooted in that market. I've mostly been doing doc/reality the last few years, so I disappear into that world. Sometimes for long stretches.

The walkie works. I use a Sennheiser G2 because it's smaller and lighter, and I have one around. I tried a consumer grade walkie (small and light), but there was an annoying chirp every time I keyed. With the model I tried, there was no way to turn that off.

That's doable via the transport controls on the FP8 and Oasis. Same here, for bag work. When I'm on a cart, everything is wireless.... so line or AES inputs.

I recently did 17 days with it and I think twice we caught it not taking TC. I left my ERX on the camera the whole show, just swapped batteries in the morning. The times it didn't take TC we just unplugged the cable and reconnected it and it worked right away. who knows. Just something to keep an eye on.

I got my BG-DU from Gotham. I have ordered some other stuff through their eBay store (little stuff like antennas and connectors). I think most of the dealers have them now, or are looking at carrying them, if you have a personal favorite store. If they are not in stock, it might take a while to get it. mine took a long time, but usually they are in stock. If you just need to have the order in by the end of the year, make sure your charge is on the right side of the calendar year. They don't make it clear on the website, but if you want the distro with all the eSmart data, I think you have to order it that way. it uses 2 pins on the input cable for eSmart data and the other 2 for power. Also, I think you can get a version made with BDS style locking DC plugs if you already have a ton of cables. I personally wanted to switch to Hirose, even though they cost a little more.

I'm in Comcast territory. Just getting internet is pretty expensive compared to adding digital cable, but i know a few people that are happy with Hulu+ and Netflix. Sports seems to be the major thing that keeps a lot of people subscribing to cable, but i don't watch any professional sports, so i don't know what the options are. I think ESPN has a direct AppleTV/Roku subscription option though, right?

I wouldn't risk the fines. For curiosity, you can look online and see who owns (or uses, like the emergency channels) what parts of the 700MHz spectrum. When I've scanned it with a RF Explorer, I see there are things operating, and still some big open pieces. I don't know if those gaps are channels people bought and haven't used yet, or something regional. If it's not always occupied, it's possible the new owner is still testing on those blocks. I never cross referenced my observations to the charts of new ownership. It does appear they weren't as desperate to get operating on those 700MHz frequencies as they implied.