FW800 and eSATA

I'm pretty happy with using FW800 and eSATA I have to say.

The speeds are great.

eSATA obviously is very fast. It is about 2x as fast as FW800 from my personal experience, although of course it is listed as technically being much faster. However, to use eSATA on my MacBook Pro, I am using this eSATA Thunderbolt Hub from LaCie:

LaCie eSATA Hub

My drives are a wonderful form factor for travel, the are the same size and shape as the Hub from LaCie. Here is a link:

LaCie 1TB 7200rpm (very recently discontinued, sadly)

I wish LaCie would not have discontinued the drives, but I am not worried because our friends over at OWC (MacSales) have excellent little drives they call the:

Elite Pro Dual Mini

I'll just have to begin purchasing those drives as we expand instead of LaCie's to match my triple 1TB friends.

However, eSATA is not bus powered. So, to use this setup, I power the Hub to do its job, but then also have to power both the attached drives. That's 3 wall warts. :/

So, when I travel with the drives I utilize their FW800 connectivity option. It's not quite as fast as eSATA, but plenty fast in my opinion for doing almost anything I put them through. Even large 95GB folder transfers in the field don't take unreasonably long.

At my desk I don't mind the extra power supplies and cables, so I get the speed of eSATA.

In the field I don't mind the "less-than-turbo" speed of FW800, so I get the portability of bus-powered drives off of a single FW800 cable.

Which is super nice, just like you, for reading all this nerdy information that I put on this blog. :)

thanks for reading!
-Cameron

Setting up the H4n

I love teaching, and sometimes when I get a specific question, I'll just make it a video for the blog. :)

This was requested by and made for Kole, but hopefully it helps anyone using a Zoom H4n.

thanks for watching!

Sprint to the Bus

The next week or so ahead is quite blessed with opportunities.

Monday
GPC - I'm going out to shooting solo for Grace Point Church's local Day Camp. I'll spend most of a full day out in the field with the campers gathering most of my footage for the edit and getting a feel for the story of the camp. After a long day in the field I'll need to log the footage and begin a rough edit to have a plan going into the next day.

Tuesday
GPC - I will finish getting any shots to fill holes in the story, and begin the edit. This edit has to be mostly done by bedtime, so today will not have a lot of time to shoot excess footage.

Wednesday
Vista - Proud to be working on a Vista event this day, doing Audio, which is always a much-appreciated opportunity for them to trust me with. I love these guys.
Band Camp - The next three days are Band Camp Session II, which we will be sending Chetley down to capture. I've got to get Chetley briefed and equipped ready for him to leave out of NWA at sunrise the next morning.

Thursday
Vista - Day 2 of this show
Band Camp - Chetley shoots all day
GPC - last few hours of edit time late this night, video is due the next day.

Friday
Vista - Doing an even more cool position on a smaller Vista meeting in a very cool but challenging location here in NWA.
Band Camp - Chetley gets his last shots and begins logging footage.

Saturday
Wedding - Laura and I are with Alyx and Tyler doing video for their big day which we are very much looking forward to.
Band Camp - Chetley is joined by Cayla and Kole for the end-of-camp Concerts when the parents place their DVD orders as they pick up their campers.

Sunday
Day Off - This is technically the day "off" because there isn't any shows or shooting scheduled, but...
Turnaround - Most of the day will be spent getting gear back in from Chetley, prepped and packed away. Same for Laura and I bringing in all the gear from the wedding. All the footage from Chetley's week shooting and concert shooting will get transferred, as well as both of mine and Laura's cameras from the wedding. Then I'll re-pack to head to a week of camp and try to get some rest.

Monday
Camp - I hop on the bus first thing in the morning to head to church camp with FBC Bentonville. They have given me the opportunity to serve the worship team using my live audio abilities all week. Looking forward to the camp, and looking forward with great hope to possibly catching some rest at some point.
Edit - I have to get some editing in while I'm at camp from all these projects. I'll have last week's Band Camp concerts and wedding photography, as well as this week's Band Camp footage, Band Camp concerts, and wedding video. Hopefully between serving for the worship services and catching some rest, this work can happen, because some of these projects are due the moment I get back into town, and some are due WHILE I'm out of town. :)

Hopefully the camp has a strong internet connection and a FedEx pickup location where I can send off some fruits of my labor back to NWA. :)

THANKFUL for the life I have been given, and blessed to be filled with a calendar so beautiful.

NOT looking forward to this much time away from my beautiful bride. Her in the ER and me out in the field isn't quite the same as living the dream in college and seeing each other every afternoon. We're strong though. :)

Worship Guitar: Forever Reign

My guitar is tuned to Eb here, making my Capo be on fret 3. If your guitar is in standard tuning, you would not need the extra bump to get you out of the flat, so you would do Capo 2.

Hopefully that doesn't affect things too badly in the video. Also, this lesson and Christ is Risen I shot with Photo Booth on my Mac, making the image a "mirror". I'm hoping this adds a new element of simplicity, so it is as if you are being taught "straight on" instead of your brain having to reverse all the chords. I don't know, may have been a bad idea I go back and forth with it. We'll see how it goes and maybe do this moving forward, or revert back to the standard view.

Here is the PDF: Forever Reign

thanks for watching!

Worship Guitar: Christ is Risen

Here is another song to look at, it's in E, using only four chords. :)

Watch for the strumming, and listen for the dynamics. Different loudnesses at different times, using stronger or lighter strumming, to help push and direct the song where it needs to go.

Here is the PDF: Christ is Risen

thanks for watching!
-Cameron