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ATOMOS Samurai Blade review

Ayan Pratap

Ayan Pratap

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Hi all,

Am DPing a feature film soon and was looking for some feedback from users who have invested in the Samurai Blade (http://www.atomos.com/samurai-blade/).

I am looking for a solution to transcode real time and really like the Blade for what all it promises to do in the price. There is no time in post for transcoding and this tool can really help up get the feature delivered in time.

Here is the workflow we are developing.

1. RED Epic shoot with simultaneous feed to the Blade to get AVID DNxHD 36 files with a LUT on the EPIC.
2. Ingest AVID 36, sound sync and make the film cut in Media Composer 7.
3. Relink to R3D files
4. Finish in DaVinci.

Question: For folks who know about Blade, does it uses the same file names as the RED cameras from which its reading the signal? If not, how difficult will it be to relink the proxies to the original media once the cut is locked? Is there a step we should follow to make this happen without glitches. This is my main question before investing in the Blade.

Thanks.
 
On their website they say the following:

What Cameras are Supported?

RED Epic (RED file naming supported in AtomOS 4.11, start/stop trigger & timecode is supported over SDI)

RED Scarlet (RED file naming supported in AtomOS 4.11, start/stop trigger & timecode is supported over SDI)
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So the Atomos will just add an extra digit? In that case, I can just delete that digit and the names should match the names from EPIC ? OR if I copy the entire column from Atomos names (without removing the digit) and paste them to the corosponding EPIC files, it should be able to track them at the relink to online stage?
 
Ayan Pratap said:
So the Atomos will just add an extra digit? In that case, I can just delete that digit and the names should match the names from EPIC ? OR if I copy the entire column from Atomos names (without removing the digit) and paste them to the corosponding EPIC files, it should be able to track them at the relink to online stage?
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Yup. It's easier to chance the Atomos files but I go modifying the XML route.
 
I saw that Nick, but I wasn't sure if that meant that the Blade will have the exact file names or whether it will follow the same name structure but have different characters of its own. I guess it probably will have exact names. I might have to call their office to confirm.
 
Bob Gundu said:
Yup. It's easier to chance the Atomos files but I go modifying the XML route.
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Ya, that's what I was thinking about just removing the extra digit. Although copying the entire column will be much faster. I haven't tried modifying the XML route.
 
Ayan Pratap said:
I saw that Nick, but I wasn't sure if that meant that the Blade will have the exact file names or whether it will follow the same name structure but have different characters of its own. I guess it probably will have exact names. I might have to call their office to confirm.
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Same file names but with one extra digit.
 
Ayan Pratap said:
Ya, that's what I was thinking about just removing the extra digit. Although copying the entire column will be much faster. I haven't tried modifying the XML route.
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Well the red files are in separate folders where the blade files are all in one folder makes it difficult to copy paste the list.
 
Bob Gundu said:
Well the red files are in separate folders where the blade files are all in one folder makes it difficult to copy paste the list.
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Once RED files are AMA linked in MC and blade files are ingested, I could copy the metadata columns from bin to bin easily in the Media Composer.
 
Thanks for the info Bob.
 
Thanks Chris, I plan to install mine in my underwater housing, but so far have been unable to find the exact dimensions of the unit, both with and without battery/media installed. If you could post that info, very much appreciated.
 
Chris, looking forward to your review until I order mine if it works perfectly.
 
Chris, I'm also interested in hearing if you can capture 720p60 files through the HD-SDI on the Samurai Blade. If you can, then that means that if you want to shoot off-speed, you can change your EPIC / SCARLET Project Timebase to 59.976 and frame rate to shoot at 59.976 fps.

You would have to either manually change the framerate to 23.976 in post or slow your footage to 40%, but it definitely would be awesome to know if you can shoot off-speed proxies in real time without having to play them back off the SSD card after you shoot.
 
Bob Gundu said:
Yup. It's easier to chance the Atomos files but I go modifying the XML route.
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Is it even possible to do it with Avid AAF?
Personally, with everything being equal, I'd rather have an exact same names, if I'm trying to troubleshoot the problem.
 
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