Scarlet/Epic EFP Setup

[Brian Critchlow]

My dream setup for scarlet:

Multicam EFP style setup with fiber optic straight from a CCU to camera with video, audio, TC, PL, lens control, painting, etc.

Since were going modular here, maybe were just looking at another EFP brick to click on?? cmon, you know you wanna

[Sven Seynaeve]

I would recommend Jim to ad this to the list aswell. Would be a real killer system.

[Steve Gibby]

You never know...could happen. Hardlined EFP like you described is a very big industry, though the volume of non-hardlined EFP production each year dwarfs that of hardlined EFP. In fact per number of yearly productions, non-hardlined EFP is far and away the most common form of motion media production worldwide each year. 1080p announced for the new cameras is also an indication of the broad utility planned.

Epic and Scarlet will obviously be used extensively in non-hardlined EFP - just as RED One is now - but again, who knows, perhaps RED will also enable the features you mentioned to also give users a good hardlined option.

Modular cameras like Epic, Scarlet and Red One enable flexibility in form factor and utility. Very cool I'd say...

[Joseph Ward]

Hardlined EFP/ENG use with Scarlet and Epic would be cool indeed.

[Jim Hurwitz]

>>Multicam EFP style setup with fiber optic straight from a CCU to camera with
>> video, audio, TC, PL, lens control, painting, etc.

Gents,

The CopperHead system is a "click-on brick" system for HD/SDI cameras and camcorders that has been in the field for almost seven years: all camera signals, camera control, intercom, etc are carried bidirectionally on a fiber optic cable. Choice of Tactical fiber cable (local power) or SMPTE Hybrid fiber/copper cable (remote power).

Details on the current incarnation can be found at http://www.telecast-fiber.com/suppor...asheet_4pg.pdf

If this doesn’t satisfy your requirements, then let me know what the actual signal paths you’d need for multicam with the RED, and I am sure we could produce a CopperHead system that would accommodate the Red and its successors. We are currently in a product definition phase, so your input would be great!

Questions include:
1) What would you want for camera/lens control: RS422? Ethernet? something else?
2) What "paintbox" would you use with the camera?
3) how many audios each way? Analog or AES?
4) Does Red embed audio?
5) Time code each way? Why?
6) Intercom: is one channel enough, or do you need two? RTS? Clear-COm? Four-wire?

Here is your chance to help define the product you are asking for!

Best,

Jim
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Jim Hurwitz
Product Manager, On-Camera and E-Cinema Products
Telecast Fiber Systems, Inc.
415-383-5388
jhurwitz@telecast-fiber.com
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