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Maximum single shot time

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Sorry if this has been covered, but does anyone know if there is a time restriction for a single shot?

I shoot a lot of concerts and would love to use 5 Reds, but would need to shoot up to 120 minutes in a single take on each camera.

Anyone know if this is practical?

Cheers,

Jim Hare
Sydney Australia
 
jimhare said:
Sorry if this has been covered, but does anyone know if there is a time restriction for a single shot?

I shoot a lot of concerts and would love to use 5 Reds, but would need to shoot up to 120 minutes in a single take on each camera.

Anyone know if this is practical?

Cheers,

Jim Hare
Sydney Australia
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Why would it be absolutely necessary to shoot 120 minutes as a continuous take?
 
The Red Drive is not currently shipping but once it is, my understanding is it can record approximately 180 minutes. I have not heard if that's in a single take or not. Anyway the camera has HDMI (720p) and HD-SDI (1080p) outputs, so anything that can record from those (direct or through a converter) would work also, if you don't need 4k resolution.
http://www.reduser.net/forum/showthread.php?t=1119
 
Max record time records

Max record time records

If you shoot REDCODE RAW direct to a RED-DRIVE a single 120 minute take should be fine. ..
 
skipdivils said:
Why would it be absolutely necessary to shoot 120 minutes as a continuous take?
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Just easier as the less clips you have to sync in post the better....as people turn their cameras off to change tapes (opps!), batteries etc.

Cheers,

Stuart: didn't see your post......but the battery might die before then?
 
You can run the camera from AC wall power if you have the Red battery charger. Another question: hopefully the Red uses a good precision master oscillator, but still... will it hold perfect sync through two hours? (There is always going to be some drift, the only question is how much.)
 
Just as a pie in the sky thought....and guess it depends on the power filtering and whether you'd send a spike through the system...but could you have some lemo 'double adapter' to switch over to a second battery when the first was spluttering....change batteries without power off??

/begin further crazy section

Can you record to CF & Reddrive at the same time?

Then if you could switch over from Reddrive to CF 'on the fly' and back again with a fresh Reddrive...then I could shoot another of Warhol's 24 hour 'Manhattan' pieces...NOT

/back to reality

Good points on master sync. Sure that happens but I'd rather cut up long takes as I see they go out of sync than sync up 5 cameras with lots of gaps. I guess real editors may change clip durations by eg. .05 or whatever, but I don't know the effect it would have on picture or sound quality.

Also shooting a concert most cameras wouldn't be tethered to power.

For time sync....be an easy check if you set a couple of cameras to same time of day and then checked them next day.
 
continuous take

continuous take

skipdivils said:
Why would it be absolutely necessary to shoot 120 minutes as a continuous take?
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Sokurov's Russian Ark (96 minute single take) wasn't shot with a RED (but is Russian none the less). I suspect Tilman Buettner, the steady-cam operator, would have very much appreciated the size and weight of the RED (not to mention the image quality) had it existed a few years past.
 
skipdivils said:
Why would it be absolutely necessary to shoot 120 minutes as a continuous take?
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To get the entire concert. I have 4-5 cameras shooting 100% of the time and then post edit for complete control. Just want to know if the Red will work in this scenario. I would have AC power so no battery issues.
Jim
 
david farland said:
Just as a pie in the sky thought....and guess it depends on the power filtering and whether you'd send a spike through the system...but could you have some lemo 'double adapter' to switch over to a second battery when the first was spluttering....change batteries without power off??

/begin further crazy section

Can you record to CF & Reddrive at the same time?

Then if you could switch over from Reddrive to CF 'on the fly' and back again with a fresh Reddrive...then I could shoot another of Warhol's 24 hour 'Manhattan' pieces...NOT

/back to reality

Good points on master sync. Sure that happens but I'd rather cut up long takes as I see they go out of sync than sync up 5 cameras with lots of gaps. I guess real editors may change clip durations by eg. .05 or whatever, but I don't know the effect it would have on picture or sound quality.

Also shooting a concert most cameras wouldn't be tethered to power.

For time sync....be an easy check if you set a couple of cameras to same time of day and then checked them next day.
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I've read that you can't shoot to CF and drive at the same time.
 
an 8gb card shoots about 4 minutes and 20 seconds of footage, or about 97% of the drves capacity before an "out of space" error pops up. the error message may be slightly different, but i just had a 6AM call and a 16 hr day after a 4 hour turnaround and i am a little loopie...
 
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