Red Lenses

[Carl-August Savgård]

I can't remember who said that there will be a port (USB) for storing metadata on the footage.

How is this data stored? How much data can be stored per frame? Will anybody be intressed in a device that will take for example X,Y,Z, rotation, pan/tilt (GPS) from sensors and output them on to a USB device and then input on the RED. And of course lens data as aperture, zoom, focus (If there is a port on Red lenses). I'm thining crane work here.

[Simon Blackledge]

x,y,z , pan... tilt.. lens height etc... all very useful for us vfx guys..

[Stuart English]

Conceptually, yes to all of the above. Total data size per frame being worked out, but even storing all of what you describe would only be a few bytes of data.

[Ruairi Robinson]

Conceptually, yes to all of the above. Total data size per frame being worked out, but even storing all of what you describe would only be a few bytes of data.

Hey Stuart, can you tell me what kinds of data will or won't be transmittable via USB from the camera/lenses?

I would dearly love to see a low cost and accurate automated method of tracking 3D camera data on set, with the 3D data stored as metadata per frame. Would make VFX shots a gazillion times easier. Especially if info from the lens was passed through (animated focal length, etc - tracking shots with zooms is currently a nightmare in post!)

Hey one other question - is there any automated way to deal with lens distortion? normally you shoot a reference grid, but is there any other way...?

[Greg M]

Stuart,
Back to the origin of this thread....will the Red support the data connections on Zeiss Ultra primes (LDS) and Cooke S4's?

[Carl-August Savgård]

Stuart,

Have you not nailed this details down yet? =)

As digitalfx pointed out, will there be any output from RED lenses that store zoom, aperture and focus as metadata aka Cooke /i Arri LDM.

Just to clearify the origin of the thread...

[Andrew Benz]

As digitalfx pointed out, will there be any output from RED lenses that store zoom, aperture and focus as metadata aka Cooke /i Arri LDM.

Just to clearify the origin of the thread...

Hi Nilsson,

From what I have read since March, this issue was brought up before and it was stated by the RED team that the lenses were fully manual--no electronics. At least to the extent that Arri and Cooke offer... One of the goals was to keep costs to us--down. Now, things change and I could be wrong, but this is what I understand so far. Does not mean that a 3rd party or a RED solution will not happen down the road though.