Epic-M + Epic-X 3D?

[Tom C. Hall]

There is a 3D job going on right how that has an Epic-M and Epic-X, same firmwares, not problems I've heard of yet.

[Pawel Achtel]

Not sure what "drift" Johnny is talking about, perhaps he can elaborate :)

As long as you can do Tri-Level-Sync of both cameras, there should be no problem. This has nothing to do with what the cameras are. The cameras are either locked to the sync source or not. And, if not, most likely the settings on both cameras do not match. RED confirmed that even mixing Scarlet and Epic is possible in a 3D configuration.

That's all you need.

Of course, you can sync the time code and you can sync the Master-Slave camera operation with the Gig-E cable. The later, whilst optional, may have issues if the cameras are not on the same firmware. But, nothing preventing you from shooting 3D as there are several ways to roll/stop both cameras and, even when using Gig-E cable, the cameras will not start/stop rolling at exactly same time anyway.

hope it helps.

[Johnny Friday]

I can't really say where or rather what caused the shutter drift. But one obvious culprit "could be" heat. Now that we have our M camera back from RED and same heat sinks....we have used both M and X successfully. But heat was what was thought to have caused the drift in the shutter that we had experienced during early tests. However, we never could actually isolate the issue and the M AND X cameras have come a long way in development since then.

....right now, we are quite happy with M mixed with X or two X's or two M's....and no further issues other than user error time to time