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  • Hey all, just changed over the backend after 15 years I figured time to give it a bit of an update, its probably gonna be a bit weird for most of you and i am sure there is a few bugs to work out but it should kinda work the same as before... hopefully :)

Sound Devices PIX 240 ProRes/DNxHD Video Recorder with EPIC

Going to be playing with this setup tomorrow. Can't wait to try it out. Have a feeling it's going to rock. Good times ahead!
 
Very cool!
 
Steve, very interested to hear a report once you've played with it. Love Sound Devices products and this looks to be another winner.
 
Well, that's certainly an outstanding solution for the 1080p workflow crowd...

And I love Sound Devices products...glad to see them hit this one out of the park...
 
I will post some thoughts soon. Have a busy shooting week, but will blog about it this weekend. I'll bring the files into my Avid and see how it all works out.
 
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?
 
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?
 
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.
 
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.
 
Mike Van Laanen said:
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?
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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
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