rec.arts.movies.production.sound

On Aug 28, 12:40 pm, AdmNaism...@ wrote:
> > The clock in the recorder is not accurate enough to hold sync after a jam sync for >longer than 20 min or so.
>
> It's no Swiss clock, but it'll hold a jammed sync longer than that.
>
> More than an hour, probably less than 2; and it has an indicator to
> tell you if it's slipped too far.
>
> I used mine with TC stamps for the first time earlier this year and
> feedback from the student editor was all good. YMMV.



Not in my tests it didn't. The drift happened in the first 1/2 hr w/
an external clock, about a frame. The indicator is kind of abstract
and can't tell you if you've slipped out of sync with some external
time-base since it is unaware of it. For professional level sync lock
I strongly recommend an external clock or TC source to clock to. I
have used this machine a great deal since its introduction and this is
what has worked for me, in all sorts of film and video situations.

Philip Perkins CAS