Sometimes you need to shoot with two or more cameras and that introduces the need to synchronize them. Some high-end cameras have genlock capability but what happens if you your cameras don’t have it or you work with a mix of different cameras? Slating is always a good idea but there is an easy way to have immediate synch in your NLE, this first tutorial shows you how.
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Hi Paolo, I always love your stuff, your contributions to the world of video especially the camera pre-sets are revolutionary.
Just a little comment though; is there a way that you can make your tutorials downloadable? I use Firefox and all my computers crash every time I try to play your clips on-line so I never get to see them.
All the Best!
Hi Evro. Strange. Can you play QT videos on the web otherwise? What version of Firefox are you using and on which OS? I just tried it on Firefoc 2.x and it worked fine. Do you have QT 7.x installed? I’m sorry but I try to keep the videos linked to the website for now.
Evro, I switched to Flash, see if it works for you.
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Hi! Paolo I am a digital film student at the art Institute of California, I have never worked with a multi camera shoot I have always used my HD100 by itself’ but I will be doing multi camera shoots in the near future. My question is are these camera’s recording to their own tape or source and are they all continually running during the take so that time code remains the same on all. Sorry if my questions a little redundant, but like I’ve said I have never done a multi camera shoot. Thanks in advance. Gary
Hi Gary. Yes, the HD-100 records to tape or it can record to hard disk via the FW output. The issue with timecode is of synchronization. While you can get the cameras to record timecode it will be next to impossible to achieve synch unless the cameras can use a signal to run the same timecode. And I mean EXACTLY the same timecode. If you’re off even just a few frames then it will be very time-consuming to adjust the edits. With the trick that I presented you can have all kind of cameras and you don’t need to worry about cabling, synch signal, etc. Good luck!