From the course: Video Gear: Audio
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Drawbacks of external recorders
From the course: Video Gear: Audio
Drawbacks of external recorders
- Now, Rob, there are some potential negatives as you're looking at these. You mentioned the storage type. You want to make sure that that storage is going to be compatible. So, for example, a lot of SSDs have recently changed shapes. So, I need to either modify this or in the case of the Atmos things here, they come with these cases that you drop it in and you screw that into place. But if you need to have enough of these on set, you're going to want to have enough of these on set. So, make sure you have adequate storage. Plus, some of these like Blackmagic is notorious, oh, you want to format a card or delete a clip? (laughs) No, no, no, no, no, you can't do that. You have to plug it in to a computer. - Well, speaking of the caddy thing, it's really interesting. We've seen sort of a changeover in the SSD industry over the past year or two with manufacturers going from a bigger, kind of 9 1/2 millimeter height, kind of like this size, over to a smaller 7 millimeter height that you…
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