Comments on: Nikon D800 + h2s connect + Atomos Samurai = better than Heaven!

By: mike.kobal

mike.kobal — Mon, 09 Jun 2014 17:55:16 +0000

Hi Alvaro! here is the official answer from Atomos:

Unfortunately the Blades do not have Gen Lock.
I’ve been digging through the AG-3DA1, but cannot find if it transmits timecode over HD-SDI.
If it doesn’t send Time Code data to the blade, there is no real way to sync them
The best solution I’ve found doing something like this, is to set both units to Time of Day timecode.
You can get the TC close, but not exact. In post, you can make note of the offset, which should stay consistent through a day.

By: Alvaro

Alvaro — Mon, 09 Jun 2014 17:26:01 +0000

Hi Mike!

I have a Panasonic AG-3DA1 with two SDI connection. I’m using that because I want to make a 3D movie with this camera, so I want to buy two Atomos Samurai Blade, each for every side, left and right. Everything sounds fine but my problem is with the Gen Lock… Is possible to do the sync between the two Samurais?

Thank you very much.

Greetings from Peru.

Alvaro Iparraguirre B.

By: mike.kobal

mike.kobal — Fri, 23 Nov 2012 13:33:00 +0000

fixed. thanks

By: Skeptikal

Skeptikal — Fri, 23 Nov 2012 00:01:17 +0000

I think you mean “Better than Heaven”…

By: tronics

tronics — Sat, 08 Sep 2012 11:58:31 +0000

The problem with Ninja is that there is no real playback, so you can only IDENTIFY the files but not CHECK. The codec is too demanding.
Can the Samurai do a playback at any framerate in the desired way?

Also loop playback would be appreciated to use this to put on a monitor to present the work in an installation or something. But as playback does not work surely they did not put a loop function either.

I consider a Blackmagic Shuttle plus external monitor which comes down to a similar price and can do the playback well.

By: mike.kobal

mike.kobal — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 11:37:32 +0000

the samurai has a much better screen – settings are the same

By: nanofunk

nanofunk — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 09:57:05 +0000

can you explain a little why this setting is better than using the atomos ninja? don’t you think the atomos ninja will get a similar firmware update soon? please explain, as i am currently thinking of getting either the ninja or the samurai setting you described myself! thanks!