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  • Hey all, just changed over the backend after 15 years I figured time to give it a bit of an update, its probably gonna be a bit weird for most of you and i am sure there is a few bugs to work out but it should kinda work the same as before... hopefully :)

Red #27, Production Day #1

Shawn Nelson said:
He was off mic, intentionally, it was the kids' closeup.
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I was going to say that I would be more worried about the echo/reverb than the the noise... but that answers that question. :)
 
Glad you liked the images, sorry to hear about the troubles with the audio. Hopefully it all gets worked out and you are able to salvage the audio in post.
 
In order to get rid of the noise, you might want to try using the Waves Restoration Bundle, or Sonic No-Noise. Both are equally good. Waves is available as a plug-in that will work with Core Audio, while Sonic no-noise will only work with TDM (PRO TOOLS HD). Use the X-noise in waves, and set the threshold to about 25, and reduction to 60. Simply find a region where there is only fan noise, click learn, and then select the audio region of concern, and then process the audio. The noise reduction tools under Soundtrack Pro are not quite as good.
 
I went to check out Emery's camera today going through some chart tests and the fans were on the whole time also. Lucky no sound was needed. Sorry to hear about that.
 
For those that missed the bug report,
http://www.reduser.net/forum/showpost.php?p=89457&postcount=47
states that the fan problem was caused by a firmware bug from the 9/23/07 build and was fixed two days later (today) in the 9/25/07 firmware. So Shawn's shoot was in a way a victim of "bad timing".

Based on this experience, it seems one should not upgrade firmware before any important work if there is no time for a thorough test first. (Can you "downgrade" to previous firmware version if there's a regression bug?)

Re: startup problems. On one of the embedded systems I worked on some years ago, there were five different power supply rails and there was a race condition at powerup between several of the supplies. This set off a chain of events but the result was that the processor did not always boot up correctly, especially with a quick power-off, power-on cycle. It would generally work ok if you turned it off long enough for a specific filter capacitor to discharge enough so that the supply startup order was not affected by a partial capacitor charge remaining from the last cycle.

Anyway, after a lot of troubleshooting we enforced a specific turn-on order for each of the internal supply rails, and that fixed the problem. This is just a reminiscence, of course I don't know if it has anything to do with the current situation, but maybe there's a parallel.
 
mylrea said:
Shawn,

You are quickly proving to be the most awesome resource / experience reporter on RedUser (besides Jim and team of course). Thanks for taking the time to post your open and honest opinions, look forward to the short!

drew
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Thanks Drew, I sure appreciate that. I try!
 
Go Back a Revision?

Go Back a Revision?

If you seem to have a new problem with a new firmware load, could you not just reload a previous revision to see if that might correct the problem? I assume this is possible.
 
Norm's been shot with RED. nice!
 
Thanks for posting all of this Shawn. Good stuff.

Shawn Nelson said:
...Since the HD-SDI and HDMI cannot be active while the LCD is, I had to only use the LCD and forgoe the director's monitor.
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I had no idea about this. Is that a forever sort of thing?
dvpixl@gmail.com said:
Norm's been shot with RED. nice!
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I was wondering if that was Norm in those pics.
 
snodart said:
Thanks for posting all of this Shawn. Good stuff.

I had no idea about this. Is that a forever sort of thing?

I was wondering if that was Norm in those pics.
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No, it's a temporary sort of thing, they are supposed to have video out enabled at the same time as LCD very soon. Only Jim knows when for sure.

Yes, that's Norm Sanders :-). Know him from DVXUser?
 
Shawn - How much weight do you have on your 526? I thought they were only rated for 16lbs, but it looks like you've got a bit more than that.
 
unfiltered said:
Shawn - How much weight do you have on your 526? I thought they were only rated for 16lbs, but it looks like you've got a bit more than that.
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The 526 is Bogen's top of the line head, it's rated to 35lbs.

That configuration is 27.5 lbs.
 
gunleik said:
It would be possible to use the SDI-ot and link it to a second monitor, though?

Cheers for the valuable report!

Gunleik
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Sure, if I had HDSDI monitors and an HDSDI splitter.
 
Shawn Nelson said:
No, it's a temporary sort of thing, they are supposed to have video out enabled at the same time as LCD very soon. Only Jim knows when for sure.

Yes, that's Norm Sanders :-). Know him from DVXUser?
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I was hoping that it was just temporary. Thanks for the info.

Yea, I just know Norm from DVXuser.

How do you like the 562 head?
 
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