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EPIC missed spec...

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"Blackie", "Lucy" and "Desi"...

Jim
 
Nice names (Epic and 2/3" or also S[carlet] 35 related too? ;-)

...and good to know!

Thanks and Congrats :)
 
Sounds a lot like Stockholm syndrome, not that the news is that bad, but people seem willing to applaud even when things are getting worse.
Beside that I think is excellent marketing to identify the missed specification, and singularize it as The Exception.
 
NEIL ANDREW BATES said:
15 seconds is fine for me. Current 'PROTOTYPES'. It's funny how Jim tries to deliver bad news and inadvertedly ends up breaking the best news we've heard for ages.
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This is a well-known ingenious technique of screenwriting (never say "I love you"), isn't he a talented script man leading the success of this community? ;-) You see? Every day, they're entering in... Welcome George Chiper and Andreas Eliseussen for your first post with a minute in-between.
 
With hot-swappable batteries, I don't see how this negatively impacts the operation of the camera with Epic. Scarlet users will get used to it.

"Lucy, you got some 'splainin' to do!"

Yep, could not resist that one.
 
Haha! You scared me for a second Jim. You bastard! This is really boiling my blood, so excited check them out!! Glad to hear the good news! Continued success!

LOOKING FORWARD TO 5k SAMPLES!!!!

BTW, even 15sec sounds just more than fine for any style of shooting when consider the hot-swap ability of the battery module.
 
Is it expected that this start up time will apply across the entire line of dsmc's or will different breeds of dsmc have different start up times?

With a sleep mode, 10-15 seems more than reasonable.

later,
jason
 
This is a well-known ingenious technique of screenwriting (never say "I love you"),
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So long as he doesn't tell us tomorrow that he accidentally knocked all three prototypes off the table and can't remember how they worked :D
 
That's totally cool. And I assume it's something that can be improved with firmware updates, can't it?

My only concern with Scarlet (S35 in particular) is getting it as soon as possible. =)

You guys have done enough as it is, just get 'em out there!
 
Note the "(at least)" part of Jim's post, there might be more missed specs to come
:frown5:. Fingers crossed.

Jannard said:
In an effort to get the bad news out as soon as we have it, it looks like we will likely miss (at least) one proposed spec on EPIC/Scarlet. The engineers tell me that a 2 second startup time is now not possible given all the changes/additions to the program. Our current prototypes are starting up in 15 seconds and we think a reasonable target for production cameras is about 10 seconds.

Jim
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cutting boot time in embedded systems

cutting boot time in embedded systems

I work in embedded systems and can feel your pain. The machine I maintain the operating system for is currently booting an embedded linux system in about 60s. But there are numerous ways I can think of to make it boot faster, like, for example boot a stripped down image for a subset of functionality, use XIP (eXecute In Place), find all the places where the kernel is needlessly waiting for stuff to happen. Every couple of weeks our project leader sends me links to websites citing super quick boot times with embedded linux systems while bemoaning those unacceptable 60 seconds.
Cutting down boot times is a really hot topic in the industry right now. We've seen Netbooks coldboot in 5 (five) seconds now, and that is a full operating system without cheating.
That being said, I really would like to know what OS and CPU-Architecture Epic and Scarlet are running on. But I guess that falls into the realm of "they certainly won't tell me" (quote SS). :sad:
I mean, an ASIC does not really have a boot time, right? It just resets and boom - alive! But then again, everything apart from the heavy lifting (wavelet encoding and such) has to run on the host processor.

And yes, from all missable targets this one sure hurts the least, at least from a motion standpoint.
 
15 seconds ? No can do sir, my assistants can set an entire shot, including camera, lights, and talent in 5. What is he gonna be doing with the spare 10 seconds ?
This is bad !!!
 
Philipe Ratton said:
15 seconds ? No can do sir, my assistants can set an entire shot, including camera, lights, and talent in 5. What is he gonna be doing with the spare 10 seconds ?
This is bad !!!
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As matter of fact, I never understood the obsession. It is a cinema camera, right? ;-)
 
anything more than 1 second is too long for SQUIRREL!!... where was i?:001_tongue:
 
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Working Prototypes!!!
Great News Jim.
 
Very good news, 10-15 sec for a boot time.

No problem.

I anyway have BeBob Rouge hot swap system that could save me for a couple of hours with RED1 and with the future cameras even more....
 
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