Build 30 Tips...

[Eli Jarra]

I also have a squealing LCD if not at full brightness. Really annoying for my ears and bad for the sound guy.

I too would like to know if there's a remedy for this...
Eli

 

[mikeburton]

Just want to say thanks for the contrast values to be dialed in .5 values rather than 1.0 values. That was much needed!

 

[Zakaree Sandberg]

ive seen the squeal on a bunch of red lcd's

 

[Omar Saad]

I've got the lcd squeal too. Had it for a while... but honestly I have yet to pick it up on the mic when shooting. It really hasn't been an issue for me. However, if there is an easy fix I'm all for it.

 

[Joe Taylor]

ive seen the squeal on a bunch of red lcd's

I'm NOT alone out there!!!! My squeals at even lower brightness levels to the point that I have to unplug during takes.

Would Luv a fix, guys!

 

[Jared VanLeuven]

Mine does too. It's the 5'6 inch LCD. I'm wondering if it's just affecting that size, or the 7 inchers as well.

 

[Jannard]

The 7" does not have this issue... so I have been told. We are investigating.

Jim

 

[Mark Phelan]

I have a 7" monitor and have never heard it squeal. Good thing too, 'cause if I ever catch that little screen telling on me, I'll kill it.

Don't show it fear, it can sense it and then it'll spill the beans to everyone about how lousy of a DP you REALLY are...

 

[Antony M]

ive seen the squeal on a bunch of red lcd's

Synesthesia?

:wink5:

 

[Vico Martin]

As you get older those high frequencies start to go away.

this looks a beautiful day before I read this ;-)

never bothered me until now, sounds a capacitor buzzing

 

[Paul Harrill]

Getting older may mean that you can't hear high frequencies... but they're not going away.

 

[Paul Leeming]

We get the squeal too.

But what I read into Jim's post is that to most accurately match the monitor to actual Rec709 recorded image characteristics you want to drop the brightness down by four clicks.

Since I am not too concerned with matching the monitor exactly (we're shooting RAW so it's the false colour display and myriad of exposure meters that I'm basing my exposure on) I will continue to run the LCD at full brightness to avoid the squeal.

So if you want everything to match perfectly to your on set calibrated monitors, adjust brightness. If not, you don't need to.

Cheers,

Paul

 

[Jeremy Newmark]

??? What exactly are you talking about?

Jim

Not only does ours squeal, but the quality of our lcd is quite inferior to all the other Red 5.6" lcds that I've seen. We took delivery of ours in early 2008 and it's an older plastic one. It squealed from the beginning, but others had reported the same, so I figured this was the norm. However that summer, we rented another package for a two camera shoot that we were doing and to my surprise, not only did the lcd in that package not squeal, but the quality of the lcd was far superior to ours. The blacks were much blacker, even with the brightness turned up all the way and the colors actually matched fairly close to those in the evf. The color of our lcd has never even come close to matching that of our evf, and the blacks are horrible. It has a very blue cast and the squeal is so bad that we never use it in anything other then full brightness. After seeing how poorly our lcd performed up against another, I contacted support and was told to send it in. I did that in the summer of 2008 and was simply told that for that version of the lcd, everything performed as it should and it passed all of the quality control tests. So the same one was sent back to us. Was I happy? No, but what else could I do, I'd already sent it in and was told there was nothing wrong with it. I have to say, support on our two cameras and two RedRockets has been great, but this was one issue that never sat quite well with me.

 

[Adrian T.]

This is an old thread about the LCD squealing:

http://www.reduser.net/forum/showthread.php?t=8718

I asked RED and they said that this is just what their LCD does, its noisy.

 

[Kurt Kuss]

Also a squeaker.

 

[Kevin Lang]

I know I have seen a thread about assignable monitor outputs, but I thought I would put that out there again to see if we may see it in build 30ish. I would luv to look at False color I mean "video" not sure why that name was chosen but anyway I would luv to have it not go out to client monitor if not desired or not go in the operator VF or if I could just send timecode out to client monitor. Just little things I love this new build guys!!! It's fantastic!!!

 

[Mike P.]

Reviving this thread to see if a solution to the high-pitched squeal was ever found on the 5.6. Like many, it's less noticeably when it's at max-brightness, but the more I dim, the louder the squeal (to the point of distraction and being picked up on audio). This is on a Scarlet with 3.2.21.