Re: New Sony F23 HD Camera and SRW-1/SR PC-1 Recorder
- From: "Courtney Goodin" <technow@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2007 22:05:22 -0700
"Alex Riordan" <riordan_sound@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I'm starting a feature soon that is using this new camera and I was
wondering if anyone can tell me of any pointers or potential problems.
The camera is
coming in from out of town and I won't get much time to play with it
before our first day of shooting (next week). There is no editor or
post super on board yet and might not be till after we start rolling.
I'm planning on feeding camera and recording double system on my 744T
and clapping a TC slate.
This will be my first Sony HD feature since going NL and I'm not sure
if I should crossjam to 29.97 (like I have in the past with DAT) or
use 23.976. I hope to put a lockit box on the camera / deck and do
free run tod. I believe they plan on cutting in Final Cut Pro (latest
greatest release). There will also be a little off speed shooting and
was told then the deck has to be in rec run and it outputs some
weirdess that relates to the camera speed. So far everyone is leaving
tc issues up to me and I want to be sure that editorial or audio post
can sync up my 744T files without any trouble. I know in the past Wolf
and others have said to use 29.97 to avoid problems but I keep
wondering if these haven't been worked out and I should record tc at
23.976.
I also have no experience with this portable recorder. I plan to go in
analog line level and take a return. How is the metering? Are there
hidden menus or switches for limiters? Will there be delay issues on
playback? etc.
Any and all info appreciated.
Thanks,
Alex Riordan
First you should tell the producer that starting a HD production without
having chosen a post prod supervisor or editor is not too good an idea. The
editor may be surprised when the stuff comes in and is not they way he
want's it. There are a lot of crazy workflows out there.
I would probably go with 23.976 on all (if camera is rolling in HD 23.976 )
29.97 is also good for the sound and slate. (use a clockit or SB-T) to
drive the camera at 23.976. Since the 744T always starts each take at an
even second, it is always easy to sync up even if you are using 29.97 on
sound and 23.976 on picture. They both share the same slowed NTSC time base
so will stay in sync at each even second without drift. However I think FCP
is happier if both sound and picture have the same frame rate. Make sure
everything is set to Non-Drop Frame and use 48k as the sample rate. You
should probably try to feed an analog mono mix to the Channel 1 line in of
the SRW-1 recorder if you can. That recorder can record even more tracks
than your 744t and is supposed to be high quality.
Download the Manual for the 744T from the Sonddevices.com website and read
up on it. There are a lot of menus to navigate. Setting Scene # and TC
setup all require traversing menus. There should be no delay issues on
playback as long as there is no downconverted video being recorded on set.
If they are using HD monitors on the set there should be only minimal delay.
---Courtney
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