HDSLR sync using Walkie Talkies?

[dave12781]

Anyone ever considered using 3 cheap walkie talkies with a speaker out port to sync a HDSLR with an external audio recorder (like the zoom h4n)?

Zoom has a 1/4" stereo microphone speaker on the front. Split the front mic input with a BeachTek XLR box, use one channel for sync, and you'd still have 3 channels free to record from anything else... say a boom and 2 wireless lavs.

Most consumer 2-way radios have various call sounds which would much easier to locate on an empty waveform in FCP, and a logger could speak the title card to avoid the annoying "wait for slate" moments....

Just a thought... sound stupid? Your thoughts...

 

[dave12781]

I mean just using 1 channel of audio you could sync to an external audio device, or even multiple cameras.

Any thoughts on why that wouldn't work?

Hell a really tech smart person could probably make it into something like a control track... maybe a verbal TOD read out.... someone could even write software that could auto-link everything together...?

 

[Cassius]

It could work, but I don't see the need. Clapping before a take doesn't really slow the shoot down.