Hello jeff, Finally had the change to test the 8 figuration. It works great, i am very happy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
One small thing and it is not really very important, just something i noticed. When i push the sync 'Stop' button, the recording time codes indicated by the 8 different decks are not completely the same. It varies but most of the time 4-5 are the same and the others have a frame difference between 1-3. Have you experienced this also?
I have one more favor to ask you and i think it might be a challenge, perhaps you don't, since you are clearly an expert. Would it be possible, that when i click in the sync line on record to have the internal clock of my Mac Mini to be reset to 0:00:00 also and that it starts also running from there as like the decks do?
Let me explain why. In live production, the director and the switching technician choose during a show or concert which camera's they prefer on the recording of the show. To be able to make minor changes afterwards, each camera is recorded separate (as you know, 8 of them). It would be a lot of work re-edit the show again in FCPX since the show has already a primarily edit done in the live setting. To help us in this, we have a software tool from Softron Media called the Multicam logger. I don't know if you know this one but incase you don't, this is what it does. It keeps track in time what camera's angles are chosen by the director during the recordings. Afterwards this log is exported into an XML file. Together with this file and all the camera angles, we are able to reproduce the switching in the timeline in FCPX and like this the show is instantly edited and small time tuning can begin. Now comes the why. Since this logger can be set to follow the timecode supplied by the camera's (which all have to be in sync), or i can choose that the logger follows the internal clock of the PC/Mac. This is the only way to have the edit points in exactly the same places as that the director has chosen. As you can understand, if i use your beautiful piece of software, all the decks start at zero when pushed on record but my camera's don't respond to that. The solution for me would be that the internal clock of my built in Mac Mini would do the same upon starting the sync recording, and all my live editing problems would be solved. Don't worry if this is not possible, i am used to set my clock at 23:59:30, start it, and than manually start the decks when the clock appears to be on 0:00:00. I am curious if you are able to help me in this. Thanks in advance for your efforts reading this and i think you are the man. Kind regards and many thanks, John
Posted: Thu May 08, 2014 4:48 pm
