Ok. No excuses. Thursday & Friday of last week had strong potential for blog- fodder. Hacked up cadavers all over the floor (see pic) & more time-codey-goodness. The pix speak for themselves but the timecode…ahhh timecode, the bane of a sound utility’s existence.
After some more tests with the Red cam tech crew the problem with drift was isoated to (guess what) the Nagra. Apparently the timecode crystal needs tuning every, say, 30 years or so. Anyway, it just wasn’t keeping good time and since we’ve been using it as our master clock it was giving our edit / post friend headaches.
Anyway, Friday morning, after deciding I start using the Sound Devices 744T recorder as the master clock we suddenly had a problem with the bloody sync box not jamming the camera (oh god this is a dull post). So there I am huffing and puffing up & down the stairs, back & forth from set to the sound cart triying every combination of device jamming fruitlessly. Finally, I try a new cable & discover the problem. With the new cable I scurry back to set, by now dripping with sweat and get the cameras jammed. By now the actors are on set & I am thrown into the action to second boom a scene I am only periferally familiar with (a boom op’s nightmare). Furthermore, this was the firat time D.M. & G.O. had a scene together so there was a bit of pressure there. Miraculously, it went off without a hitch. Still, it sucks to think you are prepared only to find out in the last minute you are not. At least it made the day interesting.
Enjoy the pix. Btw, first phase of moving began this weekend. Next weekend the real deal. Any interested parties contact me directly.
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