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TIMECODE SYSTEMS :PULSE ANDULTRASYNCONE
There is one thing that you need to rely on and that’s rock-solid timecode. Timecode Systems make products that can help you... WORDS ADAM GARSTONE
in 24 hours. And, of course, as soon as they return to radio range they automatically re-sync. The range topping :pulse mini base station is a ruggedly built unit just 94mm x 67mm x 23mm, weighing 230g. There’s a nice case available for it, with a belt clip and velcro attachments, or it can fit easily into a sound recordist’s bag. The right-hand side also features several 3/8-inch UNC and 1/4-inch UNC threaded bushes. The rear of the unit has Lemo connections for DC power (nine to 36V), timecode in and out, data (for connection to third-party equipment like Sound Devices recorders), and a BNC output switchable to LTC, WordClock or genlock). On the left of the unit are a couple of Ethernet ports and USB 2.0. More on the Ethernet later, but
I am currently working on a programme shot over four weeks on up to seven roaming cameras, with three sound recordists and half a dozen GoPros. Not a single clip has been out of sync – because the production used Timecode Systems products. THE RANGE The range consists of the SyncBac Pro, which fits onto the GoPro Hero4 and Hero6; the UltraSync ONE, for cameras with genlock and timecode inputs; and a couple of controlling transmitters, the :wave and the :pulse. All the units communicate over a dedicated wireless system with a range of up to 200m to ensure sync; if you go out of range of the radio they have internal clocks accurate enough to keep them within a frame or so
n my last job, at some point in the mid-afternoon, the RED camera – though carefully jammed to the audio recorder’s timecode after lunch – would lose sync by up to two seconds. Three weeks of rushes – just under two hundred clips with no claps – had to be synced manually.
THE :PULSE MINI BASE STATION CAN FIT EASILY INTO A SOUND RECORDIST’S BAG
LEFT The UltraSync ONE can be used as a timecode master or slave.
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