NINJA or SAMURAI out of EPIC, what is best ?

[LEON J-L]

I am wondering what is better, has anyone used the two, Ninja and samurai ?
Thank you

 

[Mark Toia]

The SAMURAI works well with the EPIC.
Only issue I have with these boxes (and others) is the screens are not bright enough.
Make sure you buy a HOODMAN for it.

 

[Bob Gundu]

Used to used the ninja on the af100, and I now use the samurai on my RED.

 

[Victor Lazaro]

As long as you can use SDI, do it. HDMI can sometimes be a "bag of hurt" nno lock fragile and thick.

 

[LEON J-L]

Thank you all

 

[Uli Plank]

I'm not sure RED will ever transmit additional info (clip name etc.) via HDMI.

Get the Samurai – or the PIX if you want extra channels of excellent audio.

 

[Loic Parent]

Samurai is more suited to the Epic, but as of now there is no metadata, no d-tap and a really dark screen..
(also worth noting i never managed to get the epic to work in 1080 via HDMI with the Ninja only 720p..)

 

[Sami Sinervä]

Ninja does NOT work with the Epic if you want 1080p. Already tried, and it has to do with that the Epic does not have a 50i feed for the HDMI.

 

[LEON J-L]

Thank you again, all of you, these are precious advices, of course Samurai is the way to go, except the metadata ?

 

[Mike Tiffee]

Samurai is the way to go, except the metadata ?

Atomos says it's coming.

 

[Bob Gundu]

yeah it was supposed to be in 3.0 but I guess its in the next round.

Atomos says it's coming.

 

[Loic Parent]

Atomos says it's coming.

They have been saying that for quite some time.. it's not in 3.0, hopefully soon as it's the only thing missing to make it usefull as an offline edit proxy tool.