Recent content by itsme7g

I bought the Mwave drive last year after reading about it here. Then I never needed it and it sat around waiting for me to get free time to try and figure it out again. Now that I am I see it isn't quite as simple as I would like. To make it worse the 1 search every 60 seconds here is making it...

Used to shoot BetaSP on the regular old ENG setups for a local television station about 10 years ago. Could make anything work as long as we had the camera, tripod, mics, lights, tape, and batteries. In fact that was my little mental checklist as I went out the door. Anything else could be...

I have been capturing to a Powerbook through FCP and and external firewire drive Daisy chained to the one port on the mac. I can easily capture 720 24p for over 2 hours. But I got to thinking about how there is no timecode. Is there a way to find out it there were dropped frames? I know that FCP...

I am interested in capturing to a mac laptop in 720 24p or 30p. I need to shoot for hour long periods. When you have FCP capture the true frame rate is it something that could cause a kink by stressing the system for a long period of time by having it remove frames? THe full 60p frame rate is...