Sound Devices PIX 240 ProRes/DNxHD Video Recorder with EPIC

[Nick Morrison]

just an fyi before you feed audio directly into a PIX rather than the camera (any camera in this case, not just RED cameras) you will need to determine the audio offset. Usually the SDI video stream is slightly delayed compared to the audio going into pix directly. Also in many cameras, the audio coming out of the camera's SDI stream is offset (earlier) than the video stream. Sony F3 and Epic (but on previous build, each build needs to be tested to be sure) both do this, as well as many others. My testing with a now obsolete Build 3.0.0 was 80ms if audio is coming off SDI from camera (Epic) or 150ms if you feed audio directly to pix. also I set TC offset +1 so TC on pix and epic are frame accurate. good news is this can be saved as a setup file and loaded into pix when you use that camera, and everything will be exactly in sync. every new firmware suggests you should check whether everything is still valid.

WOW. Super informative. THX

[A. Clint Litton]

The Pix would be perfect if it showed thumbnails of recorded media for playback.

+100

The PIX has come so far since its release...lots of fantastic improvements to monitor viewing quality, feature set, etc. My biggest gripe is lack of thumbnails when perusing recorded clips, as searching by clip name is almost never what I'll remember about a given take. Perhaps this could be something in the works?

[Esmaile Neissi]

Sound Devices have a perfect customer service great company

[Zack McTee]

WOW. Super informative. THX

Does the drift apply if you are running audio via SDI? or just when you are running audio via xlr directly into the pix?

[Nate Clapp]

Its not drift it's offset. And yes if you read above there are different offsets depending where the audio is coming from. Most any camera is going to feed video later than audio that is fed directly via xlr into pix. If audio is early on sdi stream then that is a camera "flaw" but many cameras have it. Good news is it is easily correctable in pix, or if you prefer, in post.

[Uli Plank]

It is easy to correct in the PIX. The Aja KiPro Mini shows a similar offset, but it doesn't offer such a correction (or I didn't find it yet).

[Sebastian Winkels]

Did anybody see the pix 240i yet?
Is the new display worth the extra bucks?

Thanks for sharing!!