Excellent article on the H1 Bruce.
Couple questions. In the article in reference to master and slave timecode in Free-run mode, you stated that it's wise to re-sych the cameras every few hours due to drift ...
1) if the cameras are hard wired via BNC cable(s) instead of timecode jammed and untethered, why would they lose synch?

2) if BNC cable connected master and slave cameras indeed drift and lose synch, how do you re-synch them?

Thanks again for this and your many other articles.

Posted by John Richard on Tuesday, June 19, 2007 @ 06:25 PM

looking at retirement and setting up for "one-man" video work, should I go canon or sony, and edit with premiere pro or final cut? I have shot sony video for years, but shoot canon digital stills, and have lenses. I have some experience with both premiere and FCP.

Posted by Leon Pratt on Tuesday, January 8, 2008 @ 08:50 AM

does anyone have any good presets they have come up with?

I have 3 or 4 variations set on my camera, but I wanted to know if anyone has found some other good coring/knee/gamma settings on theirs.

Thanks,
Derek

Posted by Derek on Friday, February 15, 2008 @ 12:57 PM

John, the cameras only need to be hadwired for a second or two to establish sync. You can then disconnect and the code will continue even if the camera is turned off. Common practice is to re-sync periodically (lunch break, between acts, 7th inning stretch, etc.) by reconnecting the cable. A complete power-down of the camera by battery exhaustion or losing your AC source often causes a sync loss, so watch for that. If your cameras are close enough to make hardwiring feasible then you're good to go all day. As Bruce mentioned, time of day code is most often used in these situations, but let me offer a further suggestion. If your event might span across midnight, set your code for what would in effect be AM time of day. Let's say your event starts at 9 PM. Set your code for 09:00:00:00 rather than the actual time of 21:00:00:00 (military time). Once you go past midnight, the code will continue on safely, rather than resetting to zero.

Posted by David Schwartz on Thursday, August 7, 2008 @ 09:01 AM

does anyone know how to transfer footage from the xl h1 when its in 24f(F2) HD to FCP?

Posted by JC on Wednesday, February 11, 2009 @ 07:15 PM