How the sun registers on RED

[Connor O'Brien]

Newbie here. I've been playing with our company's new Red camera over the past two weeks and noticed that the sun registers as a purple circle in camera and on playback. I was trying to shoot a timelapse sunset, is there any way around this occurrence?

The only thing I can think of involves motion tracking the purple circle in post and rendering out the color... thoughts? Thanks in advance!

 

[Evin Grant]

This is the way the mysterium sensor works. You have two choices, thie first you have mentioned the other is to re-shoot at a lower exposure. You can try to lower your exposre in Red Alert/Redcine this sometimes works but depends on how bad the blowout is.

 

[Eirik Tyrihjel]

The sun becomes purple when you are way overexposed - so the data is long lost, if you want to overexpose the sun - you need to repair it in post.

I shoot a lot of concerts, and on some rare occasions I get the same in the spotlights (if they are really really bright), it´s normally fairly easy to fix in post, but of course the best is to expose to avoid it to begin with.