Cannot access 120fps at 5K?

[Habib Khan Awan]

Hey everyone, I'm about to shoot my first RED Epic music video on Saturday night. Very excited to work with some higher resolution varispeed options, especially coming from working with primarily with the Scarlet. We rented an Epic that is currently on firmware 5.1.29.

Since we are going to be shooting outside at night (and the weather reports say it's going to be chilly) I decided to preemptively do my black shade tonight for the varispeed settings. Unfortunately, I can't seem to enable 120fps on any of the 5K settings available to me (5K, 5K 2:1, 5K WS). I'm confused, I thought the Epic was able to shoot 120fps at max on 5K, but currently the camera won't allow me to go any faster than 60fps, and only at 5K WS.

Anyone have any ideas as to what's wrong? Am I missing some hidden menu item I need to enable/disengage to activate 120fps at 5K?

 

[Phil Holland]

Is HDRx enabled?

 

[Bob Gundu]

5k at 120 fps is only available at 5kWS. Also there might me a glitch with compression settings preventing the 120fps. Are you sure you tries 5kws?

 

[Bob Gundu]

Good call Phil.

 

[Habib Khan Awan]

D'oh, it appears that was the problem. Didn't even think to check for that since I never shoot HDRx. Turned it off and that solved everything. Thanks for the tip Phil, now it's time to get out there and blackshade!

 

[Taylor Miller]

Hi everyone.

I am having the same problem where I cannot see 120 fps. I have made sure HDRx is turned off, Changed from 5K through 4K and still, it only gives me up to 95.98 fps. Any other ideas?

Thanks so much!!

 

[Bob Gundu]

Hi everyone.

I am having the same problem where I cannot see 120 fps. I have made sure HDRx is turned off, Changed from 5K through 4K and still, it only gives me up to 95.98 fps. Any other ideas?

Thanks so much!!

Try wide screen.

 

[Kyle Stryker]

If you have "look around" turned on, you won't get max frame rates either.