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Recording with external recorders

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Recording with external recorders

- Hey there, and welcome back to another episode of Video Gear Weekly. I'm Robby Carman. - And I'm Rich Harrington. - And Rich, this week we're talking about sort of a specialty device that sort of extends the capabilities of your DSLR or other video camera. - A lot of times folks have this challenge where their camera only shoots one particular format, and what they need really, is to get that out to another format. Maybe it's an industry standard, like ProRes or Avid DNxHD or something else. And the good news Rob, is that these cameras are affordable and versatile, but for example here, we've got a GH3, and it's great that it does pro-formats like AVCHD. But maybe the client has a specific need. - Well, yeah, in modern post-production workflows, we sort of have camera codecs, and then we kind of have mastering and finishing codecs, edit codecs, and it used to be that that was a really big deal for performance of your editorial system, and things of that nature. These days it's just…

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