FINALLY! Timecode for HDDSLRs? And some other new Toys…
I haven’t tested this yet- but I am working on getting a Lockit Buddy unit to test out. This could be REAL interesting. It is small box that allows timecode from a suitable source to be recorded to one of the camera’s audio tracks. I already own a Denecke timecode slate and a sound recording device that can also be jamsynched – so this is incredibly promising… can’t wait to implement this!
To read more go to my friends Dan Chung’s site DSLRNewsShooter.
Also for those who already know about the indispensable software Plural Eyes that I wrote about awhile back but don’t use Final Cut Pro – well now there’s Dual Eyes! And there’s a special intro price of $119 until Feb 22nd - not too shabby for something super useful to any HDDSLR workflow!
Then there’s a marriage made in heaven – Redrock Micro + Really Right Stuff! I use Redrock as the skeleton to all of my rigs. And Really Right Stuff plates are the single best plates for my money – whether you’re shooting stills or video. We mount everything with them – cameras to handheld rigs, tripods, shoulder mounts, technocranes – you name it. Fast, easy, and dead solid.
Lastly – we’re celebrating the 100,000th download of my “Visuals” iApp by giving a pretty deep discount of the collections within – greater than 50% off. The app – a series of collection of my photography that is accompanied by all of the EXIF data and a video of me talking about the process and idea behind each image. The iApp (that runs on iPads, iPhones, and iTouch) is a free download and includes ONE collection from The New York Times – you can then choose to download the additional collections for a fee – either individual collections or all at once at a discount. As mentioned above – those collections are significantly discounted for a short time…. You can read more about it and check it out here.
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isn’t sync’n up one of the easiest things to do? i would never spend extra money on it. Cmon, a bit of manual work should be feasable on any assignment.
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The tech you get to work with makes me jealous.
Not so jealous that I want to leap in myself — but jealous enough to come and read about you doing it. 
Do you lose any audio fidelity using one of the tracks for timecode?
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Dude. pretty soon your DSLR setup is going to look like Medusa with a zillion things plugged into… Canon needs to just get with it and up their audio controls/quality. Or maybe THEY could offer something like a battery grip that gives you all the abilties you need for good audio (like a headphone jack, xlr inputs, levels). I hate all this franken-gear you have to use to make it work.
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Trilevel Lockit works on 5D and 7D.
)… all with timecode.
But you don’t need the Lockit Buddy thing. Yust the Trilevel Lockit Box and adpating to your TRS Connector/Audio Jack.
We using this since 8 months.
Yust adjust the box to your videosettings and sync with your sound device and then … voila… one sound device, a 5D, a 7D, another 5D … and so on … (depends on how much lockit u have
BUT (!) for perfect results, u have to sync every hour.
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