Sound Devices Pix240 is rolling out into Retail

[truelife]

for those who received their pix240, can you post some pics of how you mounted to your camera please?
thanks in advance!

 

[Matt Gottshalk]

 

[Gnasher]

High frame rates

High frame rates


Question #3: Will the PIX 240 record variable frame rates from cameras in 720 or 1080?
Answer: The PIX will record at the rate of the HDMI or HD-SDI input or up/down scale to a range of other supported frame rates. No off-time recording will be available. This could be considered in a future release.


In layman's terms is that a No to recording high frame rates ?

 

[Gnasher]

Here are some questions I posed to Sound Devices and the answers they emailed me.
Answer: The PIX will record at the rate of the HDMI or HD-SDI input or up/down scale to a range of other supported frame rates. No off-time recording will be available. This could be considered in a future release.

In layman's terms does that mean the recorder is not able to record high frame rates such as 300FPS 2K from Epics?

 

[PaulReam]

I don't know if it helps but the PIX240 will up or down convert any incoming signal in order to record at the following resolution/rates:

1080p30
1080p29.97
1080p25
1080p24
1080p23.976
1080i60
1080i59.94
1080i50
720p60
720p59.94
720p50
720p30
720p29.97
720p25
720p24
720p23.976

I didn't think that a single HD-SDI could transmit 300fps @ 2K... I'm surprised the data rate is up to it? What signal gets transmitted from your Epic at these rates?

 

[nsoltz]

Only the NanoFlash will record variable frame rates. All devices such as Pix and Samurai record what comes out of SDI or HDMI. The NanoFlash implements timelapse and under/overcranking within the unit itself.

Ned Soltz

 

[joshygee]

The Ki Pro mini currently overcranks!