Atomos' Samurai now allows file naming to match R3D file names for Epic and Red One

[Lance Kaplan]

Just saw the news on Atomos's site, so I updated my Samurai's firmware — the file-naming feature works!

 

[jimhare]

Now way, that's fantastic!

 

[Tim Bradley]

Great ! I have been waiting for this. They said ages back they would be able to do it.

 

[Bob Gundu]

The team at Atomos does seem small, but they are listening.

 

[SUNILPREM]

This is great news for me.........thank you Atomos team

 

[Nick Morrison]

Wow, this is actually kinda cool...

 

[Ian Planchon]

oh man. I just sold my samurai with my F3 kit too.....guess I should have kept it!

 

[Uli Plank]

Told ya

 

[Thomas Koch]

Must update. If no one else does, I'll be able to confirm or deny, Shoot - Edit with ProRes - Conform to R3d in Resolve - grade r3d. If anyone beats me to it, way better. I'm on a huge shoot this week, so I won't have a ton of time.

 

[Bob Gundu]

A warning.... the decisions to use the samurai footage over the R3D in low light get even tougher when delivering for HD

 

[Colin Hubick]

I just installed the new 4.1 firmware and gave it a try. It does grab the Epic file names but also adds a _T001, _T002, _T003, etc to each clip. Anybody know if you can turn this off so the file names are exactly the same as what the Epic names the files?

 

[Bob Gundu]

It's actually naming it the same as the r3d file. The red folder obviously doesn't have the numbers.

 

[Harry Lipnick]

The R3D usually has _001, _002 appended to it inside of the RDC folder (in 2GB chunks) however I'm not really sure why the Atomos is adding the T. I don't personally have one, so can't really test it, but my understanding is that DaVinci, at least, ignores everything after that last underscore anyway, and understands that it just needs to match the .RDC name. Curious to hear whether or not this gives anyone any trouble while I wait patiently for Blackmagic to add RED naming to the HyperDeck Shuttle.
Best,

-Harry

 

[tonydavis]

aha....just what is needed for the indian market......hope production companies adopt this method for the offline edit....!

 

[Victor Lazaro]

Great news! Now BlackMagic has to do the same thing with their HyperDeck Shuttle 2...

 

[Sam Taylor]

Very useful, thanks for sharing!

 

[Enrique Blein]

I was just about to buy the Hyperdeck Shuttle when I saw this thread. I guess I will have to wait, the file naming issue with BlackMagic has to be resolved somehow...

 

[Colin Hubick]

The R3D usually has _001, _002 appended to it inside of the RDC folder (in 2GB chunks) however I'm not really sure why the Atomos is adding the T. I don't personally have one, so can't really test it, but my understanding is that DaVinci, at least, ignores everything after that last underscore anyway, and understands that it just needs to match the .RDC name. Curious to hear whether or not this gives anyone any trouble while I wait patiently for Blackmagic to add RED naming to the HyperDeck Shuttle.
Best,

-Harry

No that isn't what is happening. These are completely unique clips, each with _T001, _T002, etc. The Teradek cube which also grabs the file names doesn't have this problem.

 

[Enrique Blein]

Does anyone know if this feature of firmware 4.1 applies also for the ATOMOS NINJA?

 

[Colin Hubick]

Does anyone know if this feature of firmware 4.1 applies also for the ATOMOS NINJA?

Not likely since the start stop flags and naming flags only pass through SDI.