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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 :)

Codec errors gone!

Leo,

Just curious. What kind of tree is it?

Mark
 
Deanan said:
We're sending a tree removal service to transport the tree to CA so we can
keep testing.
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These trees could end up in the Red Museum, along with Frankie and all of the other important pieces of Red history. Cool stuff.
 
Happiest post I've read all year! Congrats to Red team and thanks for your long hours of hard work. Was preparing mentally for this to go on for a few months, but you guys really came through fast. Amazing!

And if a codec error should pop up in future builds, please let the notification be a picture of a cute kitten holding up a sign. Impossible to get angy at a kitten.
 
Leo Ticheli said:
A little Alabama summer thundershower just started; I'll send a snap of the tree as soon as I can.

It's really nothing special; my theory is it was the combination of wide angle, 16MM, and 16x9 with high contrast and tons of fine detail that overwhelmed the compression engine.

I think people who escaped the codec errors may have been shooting tighter, thus less detail in the frame.

Best regards,

Leo
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Leo, I also notice that shooting wide created the problems... it seemed to be triggered by lots of very small detail... leaves being the culprit here.

That, and overexposure were the two things that seemed to break the codec.

I'm very glad to hear about the latest prerelease build. Thanks for the good work!

-Thor
 
David Mullen ASC said:
A tree with that many bugs can't last all that long... :wink:
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David you don't know how true your words are. Several years ago we went to a Christmas tree farm to cut our own tree. Brought the tree home, decorated it and the next day my wife calls me in hysterics. It seemed that once we got the tree indoors, the warmth caused hundreds of dormant ticks on the tree to become "undormant" and the tree was crawling with them! I raced home, dragged the tree, ornaments and all, outside and we had a lighting of the great tree, if you know what I mean. Really creeped us all out.

As you said, the bugs didn't last long!
 
Strange to say I was awake last night thinking about the codec error and I don't even own this camera.
It's great to hear that the problem is apparently gone. I am curious though; was there some fairly obvious 6-legged creepy-crawly chased out of the firmware, or does the possibility exist that some even more warped, twisted or overexposed tree trunk will cause further problems?
 
Funny- we had the same problem with some tree footage. The trees were ficus (thick foliage) and we were shooting indoors under a glass roof pointing nearly straight up. whenever the light bled through the leaves into the scene we would get an error. We were shooting on a dolly and had the issue in the same spot almost every time.
 
jbeale said:
I am curious though; was there some fairly obvious 6-legged creepy-crawly chased out of the firmware, or does the possibility exist that some even more warped, twisted or overexposed tree trunk will cause further problems?
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It would be interesting to look at the spectrum of Leo's image(s). May be the bit allocation algorithm between subbands was having confusion.
 
This was an amazinig process to watch.

The interaction between RED and it's users on this issue was truely ground breaking, in a lot of ways.

Congradulations to everyone involved, including the bug-ridden tree from hell.

Jay
 
That's one fucked up tree...I've got a feeling it's going to go down in Red folklore like that cherry tree with George Washington...
 
Mark Phelan said:
David you don't know how true your words are. Several years ago we went to a Christmas tree farm to cut our own tree. Brought the tree home, decorated it and the next day my wife calls me in hysterics. It seemed that once we got the tree indoors, the warmth caused hundreds of dormant ticks on the tree to become "undormant" and the tree was crawling with them! I raced home, dragged the tree, ornaments and all, outside and we had a lighting of the great tree, if you know what I mean. Really creeped us all out.

As you said, the bugs didn't last long!
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Okay, now I can't sleep. We have a pretty bad tick problem up here in New England with Lyme Disease very common. Glad we went artificial a couple of years ago. Gotta go...tick check time.
 
Mark Phelan said:
David you don't know how true your words are. Several years ago we went to a Christmas tree farm to cut our own tree. Brought the tree home, decorated it and the next day my wife calls me in hysterics. It seemed that once we got the tree indoors, the warmth caused hundreds of dormant ticks on the tree to become "undormant" and the tree was crawling with them! I raced home, dragged the tree, ornaments and all, outside and we had a lighting of the great tree, if you know what I mean. Really creeped us all out.

As you said, the bugs didn't last long!
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Are you sure your real name isn't Clark Griswold?
 
I'll be BUG GONE! Hot biggity BUG! Moving at the speed of communication!
Congratulations and what a wonderful time to be alive and making movies!
How's THAT for service. Gotta love the paradigm for this company! Well.................... You make me wanna POST, Kick my heels up and POST,
Throw my hands up and POST. lol
downloading NOW
 
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