744t link up's

External Since: Jan 27, 2007 Posts: 21

Hi there, I was looking to draw on the considered experience of the
sound fellows who have perhaps used 2 x 744t's linked together. I do
understand the concept, master/slave etc, but wondered how you deal
with the file burns and generally getting the files out of the
machines, also all the metadata that is generated.

Do you have to manually input into the 2 machines constantly all the
takes and scene numbers etc.. ?
Can you get all the files as a poly from 1 machine ? Are they labelled
the same or do they have info that indicates what machine they came
from and also the track numbers (1-8)..
Frame rates etc..

Any info, good and bad bits and anything else that may be relevant to
a film set up using 2 recorders for 8 tracks of audio please..

Many thanks, John McCombie..

Pinknoise- Systems UK

External Since: Dec 06, 2006 Posts: 50

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> Hi there, I was looking to draw on the considered experience of the
> sound fellows who have perhaps used 2 x 744t's linked together. I do
> understand the concept, master/slave etc, but wondered how you deal
> with the file burns and generally getting the files out of the
> machines, also all the metadata that is generated.
>
> Do you have to manually input into the 2 machines constantly all the
> takes and scene numbers etc.. ?

No, but you have to reset each machine according to your chosen scheme
first, before you hit record on the master. After that, the file names will
be created in sequence on each machine, provided you don't do something
dumb, like hit "record" on the slave.

> Can you get all the files as a poly from 1 machine ?

No.

>Are they labelled
> the same or do they have info that indicates what machine they came
> from and also the track numbers (1-8)..
> Frame rates etc..
>
Consider them as individual products. There is a menu option for prefixing
the file name with a fixed string. So, my master creates files with names
like "A***", while the slave creates files with names like "B***" Other
than that, they follow whatever sequence scheme you have set up.

> Any info, good and bad bits and anything else that may be relevant to
> a film set up using 2 recorders for 8 tracks of audio please..
>
> Many thanks, John McCombie..
>
> Pinknoise- Systems UK

Set the timecode on the slave to "external".

Bob Morein
(310) 237-6511