> Benjamin Hershleder wrote:
> He also used an external device (sorry that I forget
> which one... it had "pix" in the name I believe).
> The "pix" device saved the files in the DNxHD 220x codec.
Correct. Sound Devices PIX240. It recorded the SDI output of the F3. NOT converted from the EX. So technically a much better quality recording by far than the EX on the SxS cards.
> The DP believed (and told me) that the converted
> files would be .mxf. They were not. They were
> .mov files in the DNxHD codec.
Correct. It records an interleaved a/v file in QuickTime format using either ProRes or DNxHD codecs. It will also cross-convert on import, if needed. For example, on one edit job I did, they recorded on a Canon C300 as 23.98 and to a PIX240. The SDI output of the camera added 3:2 pulldown for a 29.97 video stream. But the PIX240 did a reverse pulldown to get back to 23.98 on-the-fly.
> Interestingly... strangely... disconcertingly (to me, anyway),
> when I compared the durations and the TC of the XDCAM
> files with the .mov files, both were very different. I found
> this odd. My expectation was that both would be the same.
> That they were different leads me to deduce that the "pix"
> device was recording, rather than converting.
Sounds like operator error. You can run the PIX240 manually or have the recording triggered by the camera. The recorder has to be properly armed/set up to be triggered by the camera, as I believe it does this by seeing incoming TC. It may also be possible that clips were erased inadvertently if they were playing back from it as a video assist.
- Oliver
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