Sound Devices PIX 240 ProRes/DNxHD Video Recorder with EPIC

[Patrick Wieland]

Pretty awesome for sure.

[Shane Kelly]

I've ordered one already, hopefully in next week.

[Patrick Wieland]

So what I understand is that you plug this baby in press record on the PIX 240 and it records right from the EPIC. Do you need to press record on the EPIC? Just thinking about events and stuff where 1080 is deliverable and your shooting hours and hours of footage. It would eliviate any media storage issue if you were just shooting on plan old CF Cards...

Correct?

[Roberto Lequeux]

Love Sound Devices. Rock-solid in every way.

The Pix also has top-shelf audio recording.

[Scott Miller]

Sp very tempting!! A DP buddy offered to split the cost.... Very tempting!!

[Mike Van Laanen]

Patrick, check out the video on Jarred's inital post for how it links to the Epic - pretty awesome!!
Roberto, is the audio record quality sufficient for broadcast, if you know?

[Nate Clapp]

Here's a question- when shooting any of the 5k resolutions which are not 16x9 (5kff comes close) I assume the output is letterboxed/cropped in some manner on sdi wouldn't it make 1080 deliverable useless or difficult? Ie you have a 1080 16x9recording with black bars on top and bottom. No problem for offline but if you are only going to use the prores is there/ will ther be any scaling choices in either Epic or the pix 240? Does this make sense? Of course 4kHD and problem goes away.

[Sven Seynaeve]

I think a dsmc module with similar functionality would be a waste of Red's time right now. Even for sending the signal over wifi we have the teradeck solution.

I would rather like seeing red focus on some other projects like affordable projection and such.

[Roberto Lequeux]

Patrick, check out the video on Jarred's inital post for how it links to the Epic - pretty awesome!!
Roberto, is the audio record quality sufficient for broadcast, if you know?

Yes. Excellent sound in means excellent sound recorded.

http://www.sounddevices.com/products/pix.htm

(...) The audio circuitry on the PIX 220 and PIX 240 are based on Sound Devices award-winning 7-Series Digital Audio Recorders. (...)

Premium microphone preamps, on balanced XLR, mic/line selectable with 48V phantom, limiters, high-pass
-128 dBu input noise, 115 dB dynamic range A/D
AES3 digital inputs 2 x 2 channels (PIX 240)
Two-channel, line level balanced output on 5-pin XLR
Embedded audio on HDMI, 2 channels
Embedded audio on HD-SDI, 8 channels (PIX 240)
High output, low-noise headphone amp

[Sven Seynaeve]

Dear Jarred,

What I'd like to know is whether the epic triggers the recording of this device, if no media ssd at the Epic is present; allowing shooting to this device without recording to the Epic.......