Small Format Second System Recording

[ghellquist]

Sound recording for film work was done for ages without any time code. Using a clap or similar stuff. It can and is still often done that way.

The advantage of using time code is purely in post production. If you have hundreds of short takes it saves time to simply load them inte Avid without having to move them around to synch between sound and video. But it can, and often is, done nearly as simply without time code.

And it seems to me that you are firing wildly at different markets. The H4 is consumer stuff, the 7xx-s are pro level. At pro level stuff simply has to work, just imagine asking a Hollywood star to do a retake because you had technical problems with your sound recorder.

In a film setting, the sound recordist is the lowest kind of animal, quite the contrary to in a CD recording session. He or she simply follows the rules. If time code is asked for, you simply deliver that.

Gunnar