TC difference between tape and FS-4Pro

[John Mitchell]

Originally Posted by Sean McHenry

Just thought I would check these issues nearly a year later. Is this still an issue or have others not seen any of this? Perhaps nobody here on the forums is attempting to use these i a true Post House situation or as a solution in Multi-Camera shoots?

We are now looking at the nNovia units as reliable replacements.

Sean McHenry

Hi Sean - I did a basic review of the nNovia QC deck here:

http://www.dvinfo.net/conf/showthread.php?t=78017

I had problems for my use. They may have been solved by now.

I must admit reading your previous post I was confused about your final use. I can understand timecode accuracy from a field unit is critical on ingest, but I'm not sure I understand why you need to dub to the unit. I can see you might want to back up the firestore to tape: did dubbing timecode that work for you? PS - you probably have a very valid reason for going the other way, I'm just too dense today to get it!

PS I take it you can clone from one DSR-45 to another with a firewire stream with broken code with no problem? I always thought timecode over firewire was a bit flaky for frame accurate use?