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I bought some 4Tb from CEX - a UK second hand chain. Bit of a risk but they all tested fine - I really wanted a single 16tb - but my van isn't worth the price of one hard drive and is more reliable and useful!

I'm interested in what you all do for storage and backup. I shoot on Cfast 2 cards and the high speed SD cards in my Ursas. The edit computer has an internal 8Tb drive and a 4Tb internal drive. Shorter projects go on the smaller one, and theatre shows go onto the larger one but once they are...

I much prefer forums - especially when the new topic pops up that relates to things that 20 years ago were new products, and the info is still there - including many of the original creators. Facebook groups which I do use I often fall out with people when they post rubbish, or worse, wrong info...

Alphabetical, memorable, easy to spell, distinctive and you of course have to make the decision to have an abstract, or descriptive name. For example, if you did audio, you could have Alpha Audio - which ticks loads of boxes, AA gets you near the top of listings, the Audio bit is a describer...

I got offered the same radios Charles mentions with different branding, but turned them down because I simply don't have any Windows XP computers to program them with - Windows 10 and 11 certainly will not run the software. The sample they sent felt pretty decent in the hand and I would have...

I'm in the UK, but I sell a lot of radios, and hire them out. Motorola are popular, and often 'asked for', but the plain simple fact is that while they are tough and reliable, so are plenty of other brands. Distance is not a manufacturer based feature, but a physics one. Power output is not as...

Today things are coming together - things starting to talk to each other. However - I've filled the space and have lost count of the times I have tripped over cables at knee height.

Thanks Charles - I'm looking at two blackmagic different models, plus the JVCs. They all have versions of output.The ATEM 2M/E is not the constellation version so does not have conversion available on individual inputs. So I am looking at 1080 at 25 and 50 and variations of interlaced and...

Thanks - the price point between what they ant and what is achievable for the budget is always a pain - I think you are right in accepting the short delay - and to be fair it would also allow some edits too? Made some good progress today - both blackmagic cameras can be made very similar to the...

Thanks Peter - internet is not wonderful. One of the venues I work at regularly is running the entire place on service that means facetime, zoom and even watching youtube is impossible - they have a big LED screen, and it uses a web interface to upload new video files and it's really awful. Lots...

I've got some new jobs coming up this year with previously audio only recordings - not really important for this post, but it is choirs and acoustic live performances in churches, and other nice spaces. Can I provide video with the sound recording? Yes - looking at the piles of gear in the...

From the comments I expected to hate it! I thought it was pretty decent, and a good story too. Dark, and murky fitted well - and I liked the sound design.P

I cannot comment on the cameras, but I can on the lighting - we have controls, dimmers and a variety of their lighting kit still on the shelves - but it's sort of very underused. We also have a large lighting heritage collection. The Arri Fresnels tungsten Fresnels are nice, and we still have...

I am going to be different. I have always struggled with material of this kind. Im the sort who cannot watch even a soap on tv where the husband is about to walk in on the dodgy wife. I read the comments all technical, and intended on doing the same thing. I couldn’t. The camera work, the...

Yes! I wonder if he ever got anything done. Oddly, I now have a 6 year old grandson with the same condition, and Ryan has helped me enormously understand (or at least understand a bit) - and develop good strategy for dealing with it. The snag the OP has is sadly, the very common one. A group of...

On another forum, cant remember which one, there was a guy who constantly asked for advice on making his movie. Evreything he posted rang warning bells. I think his name was Ryan. Totally crazy ideas he would not set aside. Always the same story, slightly tweaked and clearly, everybody involved...

I'm a sceptic - I read the article, and all I remember is the half a dozen or so of these that I sold - with a reel to reel video recorder that you dangled over the shoulder. I'm glad they recorded direct to pro res, but we had those cameras on demo plugged into a variety of monitors of all...

Did they really use old tube cameras or was that all simulated to look old? Those old cameras were not just black and wise and low res, they had terrible lag, especially in low light - and i saw no lag or ghosting? Not convinced we are not watching treated modern video, made worse.

The snag with shotguns in reverberant spaces is that anything with an interference tube design is more cardioid than lobar below 500Hz just where the reverberant mess is!

On your tape quest. Remember you are buying old stock. Some VERY old stock. The only difference i ever detected in tapes over the years was quality control, never quality. Oxide shedding, tolerances in the housings, that kind of thing. Never image quality, just preventing it dropping. Some...