CD 7q (not the +) hooked to a roland vr50 hd

Chris Johnston

Chris Johnston

Veteran
Quick question since I don't have access to my 7q for the next couple days.

I have a roland vr 50 hd video switcher that I stream some long boring government meetings with. I had a newtec tricaster hooked up to it to record the stream for personal copy. (official Record, so to speak)
The tricaster blew up just before the meeting so, in a somewhat panic, I just plugged the 7q into the hdmi out of the roland and hit record. 7Q saved the day, but...The resulting file was fairly large compared to the tricaster. As I recall I just set it to record prorez lt 2 k but since the meeting was quite long, (3 hours or so) the ssd on the 7q ended up with a bunch of .MOV files I had to stitch together and ended up being almost 300 gigs.

Here's the question nobody ever asks... Is it possible to get the 7q to record at a much lower data rate? Ideally I would like to get a small .mp4 (or even wmv) version recording that would be small and need no additional post processing to shrink down to a manageable size. (Image quality is not a factor, smaller the better)

I didn't have time to go through the menus at record time but might find this a better option than the tricaster if this is doable.

Help?
 
ProRes Proxy maybe? It would give you 3064 minutes in 1080HD on a TB SSD. Or 2680 minutes if
you need 2k. ProRes Proxy is still a 4.2.2 codec but I think that's the most compressed codec you are
going to get on a Odyssey. I think in rough terms, ProRes Proxy will take up about twice as much space
as the internal AVCHD on the FS700 (this is not exact but just my estimate from a 32GB card holding 180
minutes of AVCHD.....and extrapolating upwards from there.)
 
Dear Chris,

With the Odyssey7Q, Odyssey7Q+, in Apple ProRes, we offer four quality/recording time options.

Apple ProRes HQ (High Quality), regular (also called just 422), LT (Lite), and Proxy.

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You also mentioned that you had to stitch our files together.

If you use our CD ProRes Transfer Tool, to upload your footage to your computer, then we stitch the files together for you, during the file upload process. (Note: some call this "download", both are correct.)

Our CD ProRes Transfer Tool takes the same amount of time as just copying the files to your computer, but we perform the stitching.

And there are other reasons to use this tool.

1. If you set the Project Frame Rate wrong, in the Odyssey, then you can correct this with our CD ProRes Transfer Tool.

For example, if you camera is set to 1080p24, but the real frame rate is 23.976 (23.98), and you set our Project Rate to 24.00, then your audio will get out of sync over a long recording. Just use our tool, and set the Project Frame Rate to 23.98, and we will correct the problem.

As a side note, if you are not recording Slow-Motion, then just leave the Project Rate set to Follows Input, and we will set it properly for you, based on the actual frame rate of the incoming images.

2. During Playback on the Odyssey, you can go into Playback mode, and then flag a clip as "Bad".

Then, using our Tool, you can select an option to put all clips marked as "Bad" into a separate "Bad" Folder.

We still upload the clips, but they are separated for you, and when you are ready, you can just delete the "Bad" folder.

Our CD ProRes Transfer Tool is found on our website, under Support.

Or you may use this link:

https://www.convergent-design.com/all-downloads/category/8-cd-prores-transfer-tool.html

I hope this helps.

Respectfully,


Dan Keaton
Convergent Design
 
Thanks for replying Dan and Alaska... I should say that I did use the CD transfer tool to stitch them together. (worked fine) The real problem for this use is the resulting file for the meeting was something like 300 gigs at the setting I chose.
While that isn't a problem for normal editing, I was just wondering, without having the 7q with me right now, if there were any settings that could give me a really "crappy" recording. lol
When I say crappy, I mean something that would be around 4 gigs for the entire meeting so that I could copy the file to a dvd for distribution to those that needed a copy of the meeting and for permanent storage as "official record" type thing. (IQ is not important)
As it stands now, I have to take the 300 gig file into premiere and render it out at some ridiculous low rate to end up with a lo rez file that will fit on a dvd. (more post processing that I don't have time for...)

I do realize that I'm looking for the 7q to do something it was never intended to do. (who wants a recorder that kills your IQ rather than preserve it?) I was just hoping (without having access to it right now) that there might be a way to skip that post processing re-render in premiere.
 
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