jallen0 wrote:Gary, thank for the explanation. I guess I completely misunderstood the initial demo video of the rollout of the ISO. I understood that video to show multiple 4k/6k camera feeding into the ISO and creating a resolve file where all of the cameras were timecode synced. It was my impression that because the file was being created inside the ISO that there had to be some type of programmable / synced internal timecode happening. Based on that I have a few questions.
I'm not Gary but I think I know the answers in this case
. The ISO does have a programmable internal timecode that it can send to the 4k/6k cameras so that the camera recordings match the timecode of the recordings that the ISO makes itself on the attached USB-C drive. That timecode is also embedded in the HDMI output so you could extract that to send to other devices like the MixPre. But the ISO has no way of
receiving timecode from a camera or an external device like a Tentacle Sync except to the extent that can record timecode as audio and you could then convert that audio back into timecode in another application like Resolve. In that case as far as the ISO is concerned there would be no difference between the external timecode and your favorite tune from Eric Clapton or The Beatles
1) If all of the external 4k/6k cameras AND a MIxPre 6 II all had Tentacle Sync's on them and they were run through the ISO what timecode would the generated Resolve file have in it, the externally synced timecode, or the manually set / time of day timecode created by the computer attached to the ISO?
The ISO would not recognize the Tentacle Sync's timecode and would simply record its own internal timecode as usual. The best you could do is record the external timecode as a regular audio track and process it later in another application as I mentioned.
2) What happens with timecode if you run the ISO with no computer attached to it?
Nothing is fundamentally any different when a computer is not attached. The ISO would still use its own timecode on ISO recordings and it would send it to the 4k/6k cameras and embed in the HDMI output. It would still ignore any external sources of timecode but you could still record them as audio for later use if you wanted. As far as the specific timecode values, it would use time-of-day which it would get from its internal clock which keeps running even when its not connected to a computer as long as it hasn't been unplugged long enough for the internal backup battery to drain.