Nice article from Dan Brockett: Network TV Pilot with HVX

Niels,

Thanks for posting this link. It confirms much of what we do in PC-centered HVX production - we came to the same RAID conclusion as Dan did for instance.

Duplicate drives, especially in non-RAID situations can easily and effortlessly be written from a single card with P2Genie.

The PC workflow, where a full P2Viewer screenshot is sent to a printer, then named and filed as a JPEG within the appropriate associated hard drive(s) as a reference image is brilliant redundancy. We'll adopt this moving forward.

I would add that P2Genie can automatically or manually erase cards after capture - also allowing an automated name and/or date-based logging utility. Naturally, if you want to confirm your data prior to erasure, you'd opt for manual erase over automatic after download.

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Hi guys:

Thanks for the great feedback on the article.

The pilot is not for the show you mention above, unless they changed the title and didn't tell us ;-)

I do know that the producer and director just had another pilot that was pitched and bought by Sony. They just completed their first order of 6 episodes and it's on a major network right now. So far, have not heard if they sold the pilot that I worked on.

I hope that my experience is helpful to all.

Thanks,

Dan
 
Thanks for sharing your experience, Dan. Good pointers for an upcoming 4 camera shoot of mine. A dedicated Camera PA to dnld cards is a must. I've got to sync TC of 4 cameras at a concert - FW syncing seems impractical since cameras are far apart. Did you ever use electronic TC slates on your pilot ?
 
I gues my mistake. I was basing this sentence "I can tell you that this pilot involves an alien who lands on earth and is discovered by a 20-something loser who has not yet discovered his purpose in life. Their journey leads to a race to save mankind and along the way, hilarity ensues." off of the title. :)
 
monkeyking said:
I've got to sync TC of 4 cameras at a concert - FW syncing seems impractical since cameras are far apart.
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Syncing via Firewire only requires that the cameras be close while you jam sync them. Once they are all runnning the same timecode they can then go to their repective stations. Apart from a visual cue at the beginning of each take this is the only way at present to sync timecode on the HVX and even it is not totally accurate. You should read this article. BTW if you are shooting in 24pn or 30pn mode you will need to change that setting while jam syncing as no information is transmitted out tthe FW port while in native mode. Once you have jammed all cameras you can switch back.

http://www.dvxuser.com/articles/sync/
 
Hi:

If you read the DVX User article on FW TC Sync, you will see that you get slippage immediately when switching the cameras over so I don't really see the point to doing it.

We used a Deneke TC slate that read out the Zaxcom DEVA's TC. Worked perfectly.

Dan
 
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