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[Jonathan L. Bowen]

I'm waiting no matter what, but kind of sounds more like toward end of 2010 to me, or early 2011, hope I'm wrong tho.

Haha, umm, no way! They are not going to miss the release dates by more than a year, I just don't see that happening. That'd be pretty awful PR too. You can't announce something for summer 2009 and then have it come out in 2011 unless you're a video game company

I am sure Jim and his team will have at least a Scarlet on the market by the end of this year. From previous comments, no, it didn't make it sound like the Scarlet was a long ways off. It made it sound like we should expect 3-4 month delays on the original release dates, which would still put cameras out this year.

 

[Troy Smith]

Hope so, I'm cool either way. :smile5:

 

[Jonathan L. Bowen]

Yeah

Yeah

Well, I'm in need of better camera equipment by early next year. I guess if it's not the Scarlet, then I could pick up a RED One, but it just seems like it would be a lot of money spent that isn't necessary. I suppose I could just rent if it's only a short film, then buy the Scarlet later for a feature. I was hoping to test the Scarlet on a short first.

 

[Roberto B]

Haha, umm, no way! They are not going to miss the release dates by more than a year, I just don't see that happening. That'd be pretty awful PR too. You can't announce something for summer 2009 and then have it come out in 2011 unless you're a video game company

I am sure Jim and his team will have at least a Scarlet on the market by the end of this year. From previous comments, no, it didn't make it sound like the Scarlet was a long ways off. It made it sound like we should expect 3-4 month delays on the original release dates, which would still put cameras out this year.

man.. gang drinks your words too..
a worry thou.. jj's silence after such posts

 

[Van Din]

4. The new releases are based on ASICs. Very complicated ASICs. Keep your fingers crossed that they actually work.

Why complicated ASICs?

Sorry me but a few of us don't need nothing more than the quality of a Red One in a Scarlet form factor.
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Drug tests

 

[Justin O'Neill]

Why complicated ASICs?

Sorry me but a few of us don't need nothing more than the quality of a Red One in a Scarlet form factor.

I think a quicker start up time (a couple seconds as opposed to almost a minute), less heat and much better battery life are great reasons to switch to an ASIC design.

 

[Peter Mosiman]

I think a quicker start up time (a couple seconds as opposed to almost a minute), less heat and much better battery life are great reasons to switch to an ASIC design.

Well put Justin.

The ASIC's should really make their new line of camera's all they promise and more.

 

[Gavin Greenwalt]

Why complicated ASICs?

Sorry me but a few of us don't need nothing more than the quality of a Red One in a Scarlet form factor.

If you want the Scarlet price factor you pretty much gotta go ASIC.

 

[Jonathan L. Bowen]

I think a quicker start up time (a couple seconds as opposed to almost a minute), less heat and much better battery life are great reasons to switch to an ASIC design.

I'm sorry if this is really a dumb question, I'm not that technical (I try to learn what I can), but I'll ask anyway...

So are these considerations we know to be underway for Scarlet? The DP I've worked with recently, I guess he has become my go-to guy, said his complaints were startup time and overheating with regard to the RED One. He loved it otherwise. So do we know that the new Scarlet architecture and whatnot will take these into considerations and improve startup time and the heat issue? I have never used the camera even so I am not too well aware of whatever issues there are, but I was wondering if RED has said to be attempting to address those issues for these new cameras.

 

[J. Eric Camp]

So do we know that the new Scarlet architecture and whatnot will take these into considerations and improve startup time and the heat issue?

Start up time has be stated to be a few seconds in the new cameras where as it is 69 seconds (give or take) on the R1

Overheating in the current R1 camera can be dealt. I have done 18 hour days in the desert in Egypt with out the camera shutting down due to over heating. However, the new cameras are said to be better.

 

[JonathanF]

Jim,

What Redcode are we looking at? Is this RedCode 42?

What was the original image size? 3k?

From what I see here it looks very good, but a scaled flv is not showing us the whole enchilada.

Is there any chance we could see a png or no compression jpg of one of the full frames without any post processing or adjustment? I'm excited for this camera as another option in our Red shooting options and I'm very happy you are insisting on getting it nailed before release.

:J

 

[REDneck]

The ASIC's should really make their new line of camera's all they promise and more.

yes, there's nothing like complicated asics

 

[Cristina S]

Sorry me but a few of us don't need nothing more than the quality of a Red One in a Scarlet form factor.

Agreed.

 

[Vince K]

We will put the new cameras through a ton of testing before release

I'm with Roberto...if ya need any cold weather testing... :wink:

 

[Mr. Paul White]

I would buy the new cameras in a blink of an eye.

 

[Joshua Brown]

Of course I'd love for the fixed scarlet to come outtoday. But I'm goi g to be tied up till feb-march on a tv shoot and all other projects have packages already purchased. I'm actually thanksful I wont have much time to worry about gettin the camera for a while. Jim just don't do the Id thing. I know your smarter than that, but be careful.

- J. A. Brown

 

[Jonathan L. Bowen]

Start up time has be stated to be a few seconds in the new cameras where as it is 69 seconds (give or take) on the R1

Overheating in the current R1 camera can be dealt. I have done 18 hour days in the desert in Egypt with out the camera shutting down due to over heating. However, the new cameras are said to be better.

Oh excellent, thank you for the information! That would be awesome if the camera started up that fast.

Why does the RED One take so long to startup, by comparison? I wouldn't imagine it'd be that big of a deal really, but faster is better of course.

 

[Fran Kuhn]

Been gone for a while and I got to look at this a little late, This clip looks really amazing, not video-ish at all. Very, very promising.

-Fran

 

[Emiliano Ranzani]

Why does the RED One take so long to startup, by comparison? I wouldn't imagine it'd be that big of a deal really, but faster is better of course.

Well, I can see that being a major drag in any kind of run&gun shoot...of course, on a movie set, considering how much it takes to prep a shot (especially the first set-up in the day work), almost a minute of start-up ain't that big of a deal.

 

[Jonathan L. Bowen]

Well, I can see that being a major drag in any kind of run&gun shoot...of course, on a movie set, considering how much it takes to prep a shot (especially the first set-up in the day work), almost a minute of start-up ain't that big of a deal.

Yeah, I just can't imagine doing run-and-gun with a RED One, that seems kind of weird to me at least. I associate RED One with true professional filmmaking. Even for me, using the HVX200, I've never, ever had a time where even a 5 minute startup time would have made any difference. That camera is positioned early, then after that there is a ton of lighting nonsense to deal with while I'm talking to the band or actors or whatever, so one minute startup time makes no difference at all. It's not like magically everything else gets done, then somehow the camera gets placed AFTER the lighting (that would make no sense at all), then we're waiting for the camera to turn on. So it's nearly impossible for me to imagine how that'd make any difference, lol.