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  • Hey all, just changed over the backend after 15 years I figured time to give it a bit of an update, its probably gonna be a bit weird for most of you and i am sure there is a few bugs to work out but it should kinda work the same as before... hopefully :)

Scarlet and Epic BUILD 4 BETA

FWIW - I ran a REDvolt with Power Save settings and got about 38-39 minutes - without rolling; just letting it sit. Settings were:

Low Power Preview - 30 sec
Sleep - 2 min
Auto Shutdown - Never

I woke it twice during the cycle to see what the power reading looked like.
 
Terry,

Awesome, thank you. I applied your settings and it works puuuurrrrrfect for waiting for wildlife!

Happy Holidays!

Kennan & Karen Ward



Terry VerHaar said:
FWIW - I ran a REDvolt with Power Save settings and got about 38-39 minutes - without rolling; just letting it sit. Settings were:

Low Power Preview - 30 sec
Sleep - 2 min
Auto Shutdown - Never

I woke it twice during the cycle to see what the power reading looked like.
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Awesome build, been trying it out all weekend.
Pre-record is awesome, and the ramping works great. I assigned my pre record trigger buttons and it is very convenient when needed.

Only issue I have noticed so far is that on my canon mount, my 70-200 iris control is wonky with this build, sometimes closing the iris down more i hear a louder noise than normal from the lens and see by the image that the iris had actually opened instead. (worked flawlessly on previous release build) can't wait for it to be out of beta.
 
power saving suggestions:

different settings for different power sources - ie AC (usually none), Brick options and RedVolt different options. This would allow to fine tune - power use/saving settings to the source battery configuration
 
Clark Dunbar said:
power saving suggestions:

different settings for different power sources - ie AC (usually none), Brick options and RedVolt different options. This would allow to fine tune - power use/saving settings to the source battery configuration
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thats the first thing I thought too, but problem is, when using other batteries than reds (bricks or volts) the camera senses power form DC.
i use AB's and it would not work that way...
 
Thanks for prompt reply ...

Boot time : will raise ticket & send log file (and yes, I meant 3.3.14, apologies)
Pre-Record : 3s and 5s options would be great ...
Sleep : thanks ... will be interesting to see how battery power is extended


Trent Lillehaugen said:
Those boot times are NOT normal. Even the 3.3.x (I assume you mean 3.3.14 since 3.3.18 doesn't exist) time seems a bit long. Please open a support ticket and send in a log file so we can see what is going on.



For now Pre-Record is activated on a per-record basis. However, we always take into consideration user input for future enhancements, so feel free to describe what would make your day-to-day lives easier.



Sleep mode does more than just turn off the LCDs. Various internal sub-systems are turned off to save power. The fan system is running "normally" during Sleep to ensure the proper temperature of the brain.
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Fernando Tufiño said:
is the scarlet still sucking power out of redvolts when it´s turned off?
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I had a REDvolt in my Side Handle that was at 30% power. Turned the Scarlet off and set a timer for 30 minutes. When I powered the Scarlet back on, it showed 27%. So, if we can extrapolate, that means it burns 1% of its juice every 10 mins while powered down. Not sure if it matters but Side Handle, Touchscreen and REDmote were all attached at the time.
 
It does take power to turn on..

Terry VerHaar said:
I had a REDvolt in my Side Handle that was at 30% power. Turned the Scarlet off and set a timer for 30 minutes. When I powered the Scarlet back on, it showed 27%. So, if we can extrapolate, that means it burns 1% of its juice every 10 mins while powered down. Not sure if it matters but Side Handle, Touchscreen and REDmote were all attached at the time.
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Why was frame-coordinating noise reduction added to the camera software? Is it meta data? Or does it alter the captured frames? It seems to me to be much safer to relegate noise reduction to post via redcine-x, where a more informed decision could be made. But I'm a n00b, so I am certainly missing something. How does it work, and why is it done in-camera?

Tia.
 
Neil Cronin said:
Why was frame-coordinating noise reduction added to the camera software? Is it meta data? Or does it alter the captured frames? It seems to me to be much safer to relegate noise reduction to post via redcine-x, where a more informed decision could be made. But I'm a n00b, so I am certainly missing something. How does it work, and why is it done in-camera?

Tia.
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A good reason to do this in camera is to save storage. You can always do this in post, but for that you have to store a lot more frames on your precious REDMAGs. I guess RED engineers have done it because they can, hehehe, and probably because there is no other professional camera that can do this in motion and RAW. :)

It's a great option, you're not forced into this.

And it's one of the features that make me even more think about getting a EPIC soon, well not that i wasn't thinking about that before.

GREAT STUFF RED, thanks again and a merry christmas!
 
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Neil Cronin said:
Why was frame-coordinating noise reduction added to the camera software? Is it meta data? Or does it alter the captured frames? It seems to me to be much safer to relegate noise reduction to post via redcine-x, where a more informed decision could be made. But I'm a n00b, so I am certainly missing something. How does it work, and why is it done in-camera?

Tia.
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I would think a less noisy image would compress to Redcode more efficiently and allow more data allocation to image detail rather than noise detail.
 
Clark Dunbar said:
power saving suggestions:

different settings for different power sources - ie AC (usually none), Brick options and RedVolt different options. This would allow to fine tune - power use/saving settings to the source battery configuration
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Yes, Good idea. I will run somr tests in a blind after the holiday!

Hey Clark,

Happy Holidays!

Your buddies,

K&K
 
Clark Dunbar said:
power saving suggestions:

different settings for different power sources - ie AC (usually none), Brick options and RedVolt different options. This would allow to fine tune - power use/saving settings to the source battery configuration
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The problem is we can't detect the difference between an A/C adaptor and a "dumb" battery. I suppose we could document this fact and let the user deal with it accordingly if they use these batteries.
 
TIMELAPSE: today i shot a timelapse, but could not set shutter down to 1/8 where i would have set on R1....i only got to 1/23.98....everything else was grayed out....basically just want a longer expose time per frame....and did not seem to get it.

....what am i missing here? Do i need to now go into a different menu setting?

My Settings were:

Timebase: 23.98
Internal Timelapse: 1 frame every 2 seconds
Shutter: could only go down to 1/24

Would normally shoot at 1/4 to 1/8th. I get the 360 degree at 24fps, but i am trying to shoot fractions and expose longer as i had with r1.
 
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