SOT: HVR-MRC1K compatible with HC7?

Cliff Etzel wrote on 11/15/2008, 5:45 PM
I just came across this and wanted to find out if this unit can be used with any SONY HDV camera that has a firewire port on it.

It seems to say this is possible, but not sure if this would work with my HC7's or not - does anyone know for sure???

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farss wrote on 11/15/2008, 8:56 PM
Short of having both units nothing is for certain.
However as the HC7 will output HDV on its firewire port I have a hard time working out a way it couldn't work. What would make it work better would be whether or not the HC7 has that syncro record function or not. If you have the HC7 the manual will tell you. What that feature does is when you press record on the camera it send a command down the firewire port to any compatible device to make it go into/out of record.

Bob.
Cliff Etzel wrote on 11/15/2008, 9:28 PM
I'll look at my manual and see if it has that feature - thanks Bob.

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farss wrote on 11/15/2008, 10:49 PM
One other check you could try if you haven't done this already.

Run a firewire cable from the camera into your Vegas system.
With the camera in Camera mode if you can capture HDV with Vegas then the MRC1K must be able to do the same thing. The record start/stop functionality is really the icing on the cake. iI the full functionality of that feature is enabled then you also get status feedback from the recorder buy the only camera I now for cetain having used it is the V1 with the Sony HDD recorder (DRU60?).

Bob.

Zulqar-Cheema wrote on 11/16/2008, 7:18 AM
I had one of these units on loan (came with the Sony270 cam)

I too was curios to see if it would work with another camera
I tried it on a JVC 5000 via fire wire and it worked OK turned of and on via FW no problem,

I would go for the big battery so you can leave the device on all day and not worry about turning (power) it on and off