Recording Medium

[Gavin Greenwalt]

What's the intended recording medium for the Scarlet?

The RED.com FAQ shows REDCODE 80 and REDCODE 100. But will we have CF Cards capable of that by the time Scarlet ships?

I think not unless CF Cards have evolved dramatically in the last 6 months since I last checked their performance.

2.5" SSD?

What's the solution here? Or will we just be able to shoot RECODE 30 until science catches up?

 

[ReddBaronn]

I think CF cards will be able to handle that. Ikonoskop is releasing a camera now that records uncompressed raw images (3.5mb per frame) to a flash card. Its not CF, but I bet the tech can be adapted.

 

[Charles Angus]

I think the Ikonoshop is a flash-raid, like P2.

 

[ReddBaronn]

Hmm, that does change things. But maybe that's why in the renders there is a dual CF card module? Perhaps the CF cards can be used in a raid setup?

 

[Karl Gustav H.]

What's the intended recording medium for the Scarlet?

The RED.com FAQ shows REDCODE 80 and REDCODE 100. But will we have CF Cards capable of that by the time Scarlet ships?

I think not unless CF Cards have evolved dramatically in the last 6 months since I last checked their performance.

2.5" SSD?

What's the solution here? Or will we just be able to shoot RECODE 30 until science catches up?

Your confusion lies in the fact that you are comparing 'old' redcode and 'new' redcode. Old and new are numbered on different factors, so at the moment a paper comparison is impossible.

 

[Hans von Sonntag]

I'm very much tempted to substitute my 2 dozen of 8GB CF cards with the bigger and faster 16GB. But since I don't know what the next generation Red cameras will use as their lightweight solidstate media I stay with my 8GB CFs. Buying 10 16GB CFs and finding out in spring that Epic will use something else would be a bummer.

Hans

 

[Dylan Macleod CSC]

I'm very much tempted to substitute my 2 dozen of 8GB CF cards with the bigger and faster 16GB. But since I don't know what the next generation Red cameras will use as their lightweight solidstate media I stay with my 8GB CFs. Buying 10 16GB CFs and finding out in spring that Epic will use something else would be a bummer.

Hans

My feelings exactly. I am in a "buy and hold" position.

 

[Lee Saxon]

Your confusion lies in the fact that you are comparing 'old' redcode and 'new' redcode. Old and new are numbered on different factors, so at the moment a paper comparison is impossible.

What does that mean?

Mb instead of MB ?

Or that they went the Intel/AMD route and picked meaningless numbers out of a hat that tell us how the products are positioned relative to each other but nothing about their actual specification?

 

[Chris Newman]

What does that mean?

Mb instead of MB ?

Or that they went the Intel/AMD route and picked meaningless numbers out of a hat that tell us how the products are positioned relative to each other but nothing about their actual specification?

The point is we don't know the answers to your questions, so we wait. We think it is the latter, so we don't know how it will translate to typical MB/sec at a given framerate.

 

[killfilm]

history teaches all of us not to rush out and buy and regret it later. Wait until more specs are delivered or Scarlet itself and look for options. come on Jim please.

 

[Gavin Greenwalt]

history teaches all of us not to rush out and buy and regret it later. Wait until more specs are delivered or Scarlet itself and look for options. come on Jim please.

Especially with technology that drops in price so quickly. No reason to buy 6 8GB Highspeed CF cards now only to find you could have waited and bought 16GB CF C ards 6 months from now for the same price.

Buy technology when you need it. Or before you're too busy to buy it later. Whichever comes latest.