rec.arts.movies.production.sound

On Sep 15, 3:04 pm, jorigli...@ wrote:
> Hey hey.
>
> I was just poking around the Sound Devices website to see if they had
> announced any new products. I watched the NAB recap video they have
> there and they talked about multiple 744's being linked together
> through the port on the side. They talked about how they can all be
> controlled through one that is set as the "master" recorder, so all
> roll in sync, and all stay jammed, etc.
>
> My question is in regards to the file naming when you have them linked
> like that. Let's say that I have two 744T's, A and B, and A is the
> master. When I roll A, B rolls too, but they are recording at least 2
> different files for each take. Are the file names for both 744T's set
> on the "master" recorder? If so, do the two files being recorded have
> the same filename coming from the A recorder? Does B automatically
> append the file name with "...File 2 of 2" or something along those
> lines?
>
> I'm wondering if anyone out there is using this linked method with 7
> series recorders and if they have ever had any phone calls from post
> about being confused over the multiple BWF's for each take.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Joe

Joe,

I just did a job with this setup. No, the file names must be entered
on each machine separately, So make sure you have an (A) and (B)
designation in the file names that pertain to each machine. And keep
good notes. What I did was this. For example

Scene 101




At first I thought about using (A) and (B) but then we all know we use
those designations for sub scenes, so then I thought of using (X) and
(Z) but then that seemed confusing. So I just went with (1) and (2)
and put the underscore between the Scene # and the designator as a
placeholder so that if we did have sub scenes, I could quickly change
the underscore to be (A, B, C....). This worked out pretty well. Hope
this helps, and take good notes. No calls from post yet, so no news is
good news. Double check your timecodes every so often, one scene of
mine, for some reason had different codes. Not sure why this happened,
but it only happened once. Sticks will be the editors life saver.

Mike