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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 :)

Build 15 & 16 news...

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Jim & Red Team

Thanks for pushing the envelope !

Dave
 
Build 15 and My Beloved RED LCD

Build 15 and My Beloved RED LCD

Jim,
If, as I understand it, software Build 15 will allow me to use my RED LCD concurrently with other outputs, THAT IS GREAT NEWS! Even as I now have the EVF, and it is working very well, I personally prefer the LCD most of the time; it's light weight, bright and clear, without the necessity to keep your eye glued right to the camera. (This is very helpful when you use a jib arm a lot as I tend to do.)

In addition, the LCD is especially good for navigating the menus in lieu of looking through the small display in back of the camera which can be crowed with power and drive cables, or even the battery. The Camera Assistants are really getting quick at reaching only their fingers around to scroll through the menus on the rotary dial while they read the LCD. This is much faster than if they have to have their nose right up to the rear readout, and the layout of the menu in the rear display is also not as intuitive as the layout on the LCD.

In short, I love the LCD, and it will be great if I can now use it with other outputs. As always, your tireless work to constantly improve the camera is much appreciated. My first RED feature is now in post, and I'll be starting my second tomorrow, a black comedy road movie starring Olympia Dukakis and Haley Joel Osment; it should be a wild ride!

With Sincere Thanks,
James Mathers
Cinematographer, Studio City, CA
Owner RED #30X
President of the Digital Cinema Society
 
multi monitor, yessss! that one thing makes this a serious upgrade, looking forward to any other surprises are in the toolkit. thank you.
 
Is it a possibility sometime in the future for the HDSDI outputs to be at 1080? I remember hearing that for some reason that that would never be an option.

I'm very ready for all outputs. I'm glad you guys split the builds.
 
I'm really glad to hear access to all the outputs is just around the corner. What about LUTs? Are they on board for Build 15, or being pushed back to 16?
 
This is awesome news Jim. Im also hoping that build 15 will squash a few of the pesky bugs that have been lurking about. For example, on our last shoot we still ran into the following:

1. Varispeed mode does not hold during a power cycle. It will still show as turned on in the menu but it just does not record varispeed until you toggle it on and off. As a result, a good portion of our shots that we intended to shoot highspeed recorded at regular speed.

2. Reel #'s still have to be forced when changing resolutions.

3. One of our clips recorded a still image for the duration of the clip. Lost a killer highspeed shot on this one. Bummer. EDIT: This is embarrassing but we were wrong. We we're recording at 74fps and the talent was standing perfectly still for so long at the beginning of the clip that he appears completely frozen. The action only happens in the last few seconds of the clip.

4. Still getting random codec errors.

5. Sometimes the camera just doesnt want to record. The record lamp is on but the timecode stops advancing and nothing gets recorded to the card.

This was all on production build 13. RED has come a long way but I scare off DPs when these problems occur on set. Still loving the camera though, we got some really killer stuff this week.
 
Bugs etc

Bugs etc

Jim, LCD plus HD-SDI works a charm in Build 15.

Emery, send me a P.M about 3. and 5. I'd like to understand what happened specifically. The others yes, addressed in 14 series.

SF Geek, no 1080p on HD-SDI until we enable 1080p RGB recording. There have been multiple posts about this, so no change.
 
Is there an ETA on Build 16?

And please let us know when 16:9 (4k) for the QT codec will be enabled, so that RedAlert workflows are compatible. We've been hearing "soon" since November.

Currently Redcine will stop a render if it detects a drop frame. Red Alert doesn't.

Thanks.

-CJ
 
Emery said:
1. Varispeed mode does not hold during a power cycle. It will still show as turned on in the menu but it just does not record varispeed until you toggle it on and off. As a result, a good portion of our shots that we intended to shoot highspeed recorded at regular speed.
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Hi,

we had a similar issue with an XDCAM EX1. Every time we shut the camera off to economize battery life, we had to toggle the Varispeed on again and hassle through the whole menu, which was really annoying. Especially when switching the whole day between Varispeed and normal speed.

This should be assignable to a user button.

Jeff
 
Stuart English said:
LCD plus HD-SDI works a charm in Build 15.
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excellent - that removes the last reason to -not- order the lcd for our 2nd cam next week.

another question regarding 15/16 - will the redcode documentation be made on these or will it be a special NAB release?
 
Stuart English said:
You mean for 4K 16:9 as well as 3K 16:9 and 2K 16:9 ... ?
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I just want full 16:9 support through the post pipeline... so I don't have to explain to people why we're shooting 2:1 on a 16:9 camera.

Great news on the multiple outputs. Glad to have that reconfirmed. Waiting as patiently as possible... :)
 
What Brook said, and Crewpix.

Also, will one of the SDIs have the frame only, or will there only be the frame with lookaround? What I'm getting at is being able to record the 720 tap.
 
Stuart English said:
Jim, LCD plus HD-SDI works a charm in Build 15.

Emery, send me a P.M about 3. and 5. I'd like to understand what happened specifically. The others yes, addressed in 14 series.

SF Geek, no 1080p on HD-SDI until we enable 1080p RGB recording. There have been multiple posts about this, so no change.
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Stuart,

Will 15 let me have EVF + LCD + HD-SDI ALL at the same time - or do I have to choose EVF or LCD + HD-SDI?

What I really want to know is if I can get LCD + EVF at the same time.
 
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