| I haven't tried recording locked to timecode for that length of time, but I am not clear why you would run that way rather than lock and release. I would have thought that running locked to blackburst or wordclock would solve any sync issues in post just as well.
We often run the X-48 and Genex decks on wordclock and with TC ref for concerts and the amount of drift over a two hr show is only a few frames. Not an issue since the shows get cut up anyway.
The problem I find w/ constantly locking to code is that if the code drops out or gets unstable, the deck may drop out of record and stop but if its locked to wordclock or black and set to flywheel it will keep on going .
At any rate the machine should run locked to code regardless, but we've had no trouble with long sessions of 48 track recording onto an external Firewire drive.
Always want to have a backup deck tho...... Mark |