Jaron Berman
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The wevi itself delays the audio, so when you plug into the receiver, the audio and video coming through it are perfectly in sync. The issue with the delay then becomes how much of the live audio can you hear. If you're in village, with audio and video coming from the WEVI, the only difference you notice is how solid the picture is. So, the only acc. you'd need would be the cables on either end.
Like Charles said, if more people want picture, you can gang another transmitter on the wevi receiver.
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After frying another modulus today, I wish production had rented my wevi. Oh well. Village only complains when there's no picture, they seem to deal well with crappy picture.
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Peter Abraham turned me on to this unit, and I agree - it's amazing! Unless someone is standing right next to you with a monitor, the delay is basically a non-issue. Also, for video village, it has audio inputs (and outs on the rec) that sync the audio w/ the video.
As for customer service, it's fantastic. I thought I had a picture quality problem so I sent mine in. Jin from IDX called me every time they tested and went through everything, eventually just giving me a new unit. It ended up being the monitor... But IDX did a great job of personally responding.
The unit is distributed (and mfg?) by IDX. Any IDX battery dealer can get the system, and the camwave system is sold as a trans/rec pair which are factory matched, so there's never interference. I took mine 100' through walls and floors (brick building) with no problems. perfect, digital pic the whole time.
And if that's not cool enough, the engineers said they would do a firmware upgrade in the "near future" to allow HD-SDI without any mods to the hardware. Just make sure that if you buy one, you call their tech support immediately to inquire about the future sdi upgrade. They said they would do it when people started showing interest, so let's make them do it, it really is a fantastic product already, and can be even better!
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Any chance of tiffen making a longer dovetail plate that could screw directly into the camera?
The most rock solid transmitter I have ever seen
in Video Assist and Video Accessories
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Aye, I realize now that I was speaking strictly from a video perspective. Running the 5-pin xlr audio-out off the cam into the wevi. Not sure how it would work in other situations, sorry for blanking on that.