Re: Venting Now!!!!!

I had this issue when I was teching a 3 cam switched to tape show. Wanted to capture to FCP, but couldn't. Had 3 570's all TC synced along with a deck recording the switched feed. Turn around was critical timing, so I rented 4 Firestores ($50 each per day), one for each camera and one for the DVCMA deck. Worked flawlessly. I was an a@@hole about the camera ops all starting their records within 5 sec of each other, and all the TC matched and I had 3 camera iso's and the switched feed when I gathered all the files.

Personally, I don't' trust a computer to do live recording from a camera. I've had too many glitches happen when doing long capture now digitizes from tapes. with the firestores, its a dedicated device that does one thing and one thing only.

Also, saves you an operator for the computer.
Also, cam files and firestore files match start/stops better than capturing to FCP would.
Also TC matches.
Also your camera isn't tethered to a computer.

Logistically it seems a pain in the arse to have to coordinate 2 systems to roll tape(bits?) at (almost) the same time.

I can hear it now in our studio

Director "Talent ready? Yes? OK roll"
cam1 "Rolling"
FCP "wait, spinning ball"
cam1 "stop rolling"
FCP "ok, recording"
cam1 "shite, hang on rolling again"
director "everyone recording?"
cam1 "YES"
fcp "think so"
cam1 "speed"
fcp "uh, spinning ball again, software update just popped to the front"
cam1 " @#$# stopped rolling"
director "WTF?!?!"
fcp "OK rolling again"
cam1 "ROLLING"
talent "wait, ear prompter didn't start..."


I know people on this forum have had their share of issues with the Firestore products, I have as well, but its another option. Only thing is that you can't log and organize and edit your clips until you dump the footage off to a laptop, as you would be able to if you were capturing directly to FCP .

Also, if you have CS4, you should have On Location. Have you tried that? I haven't had the chance to play with it.

Another option is the proxy card for the 3000, we are going to look at getting it for our 2000. That would rock. End of day, hand over an SD card, here's your edit proxies, mr Client, Enjoy! crew is heading to DQ for a Mr Misty!

Matt (who was at work waaaaaaaayyyyy to late last night, can you tell??)

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