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Recording Events on Scarlet - Overheating?

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Heya,

Has anyone who has gotten their Scarlet has had any long duration shoots (1 hour+ of rec time) and if they had any issues with overheating or processing issues. I am thinking about getting a 256 SSD for long duration bits. Anyone have experience with this?

Cheers,
Tony
 
On the Epic in 5K we have found the fan setting needs to be in manual mode with a setting in the 40-45% region to keep it from kicking on during long takes. Learned this the awkward way :-)
You can test for yourself. Let the camera get up to working temperature and start a long recording. Watch the temperature gauge. Fan kicks on at 74-75c. Keep dialing up the fan speed until the temp gauge stabilizes and wont reach the critical 74-75c. We havent seen a Scarlet to know if the same rules apply.

John Chater
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I've ran it straight for 6+ hours today. No issues reported. Even played with the fan speeds a bit during an audio test. I'll know a lot more after about a week with it.
 
go skully!, hows the canon autofocus working for you phil?
 
I shoot 2 hour + takes on multiple Epics for live shows, and the Scarlet is essentially the same beast. No problems at all.
 
Phil Holland said:
I've ran it straight for 6+ hours today. No issues reported. Even played with the fan speeds a bit during an audio test. I'll know a lot more after about a week with it.
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Ive been playing with Fan Speeds as well, considering at 50% they are too noisy, I lowered mine to 35 I think it was to not be heard while filming, but it makes me nervous. I don't want anything to overheat.
 
Peter Staubs said:
go skully!, hows the canon autofocus working for you phil?
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I've tested it out. It's interesting and nice to quickly "tap" into something. I use a follow focus pretty much at all times and that's how I prefer to focus with motion cameras. It's new for me though and I have to do some testing. I need to do some continuous mode tests and more general usage for sure before I can claim any real thoughts on the autofocus.

Michael Millichamp said:
Ive been playing with Fan Speeds as well, considering at 50% they are too noisy, I lowered mine to 35 I think it was to not be heard while filming, but it makes me nervous. I don't want anything to overheat.
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Epic folk enjoy 33-40 pretty commonly in my travels. So I don't think there's much to worry about there.
 
Gavin Greenwalt said:
Are you thinking like rock concerts? Because if so you set the Fan to 100% I would be fairly certain it would never overheat.
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Yeah I am thinking of musical concerts, theater productions, sporting events, infomercial bits, things like that. Personally I haven't rolled more than 30 mins or so on a RED One, and I know the processing power of the EPIC is more robust than a Scarlet. I don't know how hot the Scarlet chip would get with continuous use. How loud is the fan on 100%? On a scale from quiet to really really loud? ;)

-Tony
 
Brian Iannone said:
I do. Best way to avoid problems later. =)






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Exactly, I would definitely hate to be 45 minutes in to a show and have the camera crash and loose a clip. Not that I plan on shooting events like this frequently, as I don't think this camera is really suited for it, but it will effect which size SSDs I get.
 
TonySegreto said:
Exactly, I would definitely hate to be 45 minutes in to a show and have the camera crash and loose a clip. Not that I plan on shooting events like this frequently, as I don't think this camera is really suited for it, but it will effect which size SSDs I get.
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Exactly.

I think you asked a great question. I was one of the early Canon 7D owners and I had to find out about its... Err... "Overheating" issues the hard way. The camera was recording and corrupted the file on the CF card. If I would have know that overheating was a possibility, I would have been much for careful. :)

So, your question in my opinion was great. It's nice to be reassured that a Scarlet overheating is pretty unlikely.

Thanks for making this thread. =)
 
I think overheating and fan sound is a legitimate concern and not one that one has to invent late at night. I know I'm very concerned about it myself. It is as inappropriate for me or my gear to make noise as it would be for the mixer's audio to shine lights in my frame. On the sets I work on an extraneous noise is just as much in the shot as something visible.

Terry VerHaar said:
Do people stay up late at night to think of all the things that might go wrong?
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So I'm shooting some clips on Scarlet-X of a theatre performance which I expect to be quite quiet at times. Hopefully if I set the recording speed to 40% and the standby speed to 45% it will be quiet enough for me to be fairly close to the audience as I operate and not kick into overdrive.

So 75 degrees is the temperature at which the fans will kick up in Manual mode? I'm planning to shoot 4K Quad HD so hopefully the reduced data helps a little.
 
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