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November 30th Announcement Feedback

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Once again, amazing work! I've shot thousands of hours of RED ONE footage, and can't wait to upgrade to the new line. Will probably get an Epic X for features, commercial, and music video work and a Scarlet Fixed Package as a documentary / back-up camera.

I was a long-time hold-out for always pushing to shoot 35mm instead of digital - everything for Sony, Pana, etc was just never good enough. Given all the early specs, we put down a deposit on RED, and haven't looked back since! I still own an Arri 35mm package, but it hasn't come out of the case in over a year. Every request has been for RED, and I've been happy to oblige!

I do have a couple questions (these probably apply more to the Epic / Scarlet S35 side of things):

1) What's the range of open-shutter exposures when using the stills side? Could I do a 10 or 30 second long exposure at night? If so, there's no end to timelapse projects I'd like to do with the still capabilities of this camera!

2) With the built-in GPS, will the camera "location stamp" everything you shoot? Say I'm traveling through the mountains and shoot a scenic for one job, and then two years later, a client sees that shot on my reel and wants to use it as a location. Can I go back to the RED meta-data and pull up those GPS coordinates?


Thanks again for all the hard work, and I'm looking forward to 2010!

Jeremy 0sbern
Director / Director of Photography

http://www.jeremyosbern.com
 
I want to venture a guess about #21...

Global shutter feature. Wouldn't it be amazing if the technology existed where you could decide whether your image sensor would read rolling or global just by changing the camera settings? I think it would be awesome to be able to change a setting and have a global shutter read for those random instances when you need it and be able to switch back to a rolling shutter for the more film-like look effect.

Maybe we can look forward to that someday...
 
Jarred Land said:
heh heh that just gave me a great idea for Graeme's official staff photo shoot... thanks :)
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I'm sure Jarred that exactly because of this type of attitude you are surely the most loved and hated :-)

But if I wasn't such a Time Bomb I would absolutely work with RED in a second, just to help you F$#@! around some more:laugh:
 
Side handle rotation?

Side handle rotation?

Will it be possible to cant the side handle? The vertical orientation shown in the renders would be fine for holding the camera out in front of myself at chest height. However, it would be nice to be able to rotate it to about 45 degrees if I'm handholding it at eye level and using an EFV.
 
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Does anyone know if it is possible to get macro shots from the 2/3 scarlets ?
(using mini primes or fixed, not other brand lenses)
 
paulherrin said:
pretty sure there's an I/O module for straight up XLR. for any Scarlet or Epic
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The Pro I/O module has two full XLR inputs but it is also $2,950.

The 3.5" stereo inputs on all of the brains have 48v phantom power so my guess is RED will make a 3.5" to XLR adapter.
 
Ólafur Jón Thoroddsen said:
Will there be a mini-jack to XLR converter sold to use pro audio equipment with the 8x fixed Scarlet?
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There's already an adapter sold at the store online, from mini xlr to full xlr, I think it's like $25 maybe?? But I guess you'd have to have the basic I/O in the first place for that adapter to even be relevant.
 
Also I've got a couple questions...

First, is the 1.8" ssd reader essential for uploading clips? Or can you upload without it?

Second, what is the uploading like? Do you just drag your clips off of the drive onto the computer? Or is there some other process?
 
nikharper said:
There's already an adapter sold at the store online, from mini xlr to full xlr, I think it's like $25 maybe?? But I guess you'd have to have the basic I/O in the first place for that adapter to even be relevant.
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Mini jack is the 3.5mm jack socket (technically it's called a TRS connector) on the front of the brains, not Mini-XLR.

As for adaptor options - given weight and durability I definitely wouldn't want an adaptor hanging out of the sockets on my Scarlet brain, so I'm guessing that RED are going to make a few different length cables that have an female XLR on one end and a 3.5mm TRS connector (Mini jack) on the other - so you could connect it straight onto a mic or to another XLR cable if necessary.

And if they were too expensive, you could just make your own - a good quality 3.5mm TRS connector costs less than $5 and an XLR is only $10 or something (unless you get the really high quality Neutrik ones which are about $25 here). Put some nice shielded mic cable in between and you've got the cable you need. You can find the pinout for an XLR socket here and the TRS cable here. Remember it's balanced so tip is positive, the ring is negative and the sleeve is ground. All together I can't see it costing more than $30 to $50 to make you own. And these are Australian prices too so it'll be cheaper in the US.
 
Stephen Gentle said:
Mini jack is the 3.5mm jack socket (technically it's called a TRS connector) on the front of the brains, not Mini-XLR.

As for adaptor options - given weight and durability I definitely wouldn't want an adaptor hanging out of the sockets on my Scarlet brain, so I'm guessing that RED are going to make a few different length cables that have an female XLR on one end and a 3.5mm TRS connector (Mini jack) on the other - so you could connect it straight onto a mic or to another XLR cable if necessary.

And if they were too expensive, you could just make your own - a good quality 3.5mm TRS connector costs less than $5 and an XLR is only $10 or something (unless you get the really high quality Neutrik ones which are about $25 here). Put some nice shielded mic cable in between and you've got the cable you need. You can find the pinout for an XLR socket here and the TRS cable here. Remember it's balanced so tip is positive, the ring is negative and the sleeve is ground. All together I can't see it costing more than $30 to make you own. And these are Australian prices too so it'll be cheaper in the US.
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No, I know, I was thinking he was talking about mini xlr which is on the basic I/O module, so I suggested the mini-xlr to xlr adaptor. Then I went back and read his post and he was talking about the 3.5mm so that was my mistake. But I definitly agree with you on not wanting some adaptor hanging off the front haha. That's why I will be getting one of the I/O modules.
 
Jannard said:
There are an unlimited number of lens mount options for EPIC and Scarlet. Not all are electronically controlled. RED will offer quite a few and third parties will undoubtedly offer the rest. We'll list the RED offered options over time. We just aren't there yet.

Jim
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we miss you here in the forum!
hope this won't be for long!
 
Stephen Gentle said:
I'm not sure if all of those are balanced on the jack end, but it they are that's exactly the kind of cable you'd need. Good find!
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I was also thinking that any Mini-to-XLR cable won't be balanced, and what about the 48v phantom power?
I want to mention that I'm not really knowledgeable about audio technology :)
 
Jannard said:
There are an unlimited number of lens mount options for EPIC and Scarlet. Not all are electronically controlled. RED will offer quite a few and third parties will undoubtedly offer the rest. We'll list the RED offered options over time. We just aren't there yet.

Jim
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Thanks for the update! Keep up the amazing work
 
Ólafur Jón Thoroddsen said:
I was also thinking that any Mini-to-XLR cable won't be balanced, and what about the 48v phantom power?
I want to mention that I'm not really knowledgeable about audio technology :)
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Well, it is possible to make a balanced one - you just have to wire the positive pin of the XLR to the tip of the TRS plug (see the picture linked below), negative to the middle part (called the ring) and the XLR ground pin to the bottom part (the sleeve). A cable wired like that is balanced and will be able to carry phantom power, and is exactly what you're looking for.

But, some cables will either only have two parts on the mini jack (a tip and a sleeve without the ring, like the bottom plug in the picture), and will wire the negative and the ground together. Or, if it does have three parts, they could have the sleeve and the ring both connected to both ground and negative, or possibly they could have the sleeve connected negative and ground and the ring and the tip connected to the positive pin.

None of these last three situations are what we want. The first and second ones would be unbalanced and mono, which is not ideal, but may still work with the brains. The last would be used if you had a stereo plug and wanted the mic to come in on both channels, but isn't balanced. It's possible that the ones that say 'Stereo' are wired like that. I'm not sure, but I doubt those configurations would be able to carry phantom power either.

I'd definitely check with the manufacturer before buying any of these cables.

Here's a picture of the TRS jack - (1) is the sleeve, (2) is the ring and (3) is the tip.
 
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