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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 shoot today

Rick Darge

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Here is a grab. I'm going to delete it by the time I pass out tonight, so check it out. 10 Hour shoot - Images were stellar. Camera is still very buggy though. We had A LOT of lockup/reboot issues all day. If the images weren't so pretty, I probably would be more upset than I am now.
 
rgdfilmsRED said:
Camera is still very buggy though. We had A LOT of lockup/reboot issues all day. If the images weren't so pretty, I probably would be more upset than I am now.
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Brook, Evin, Gibby, Offhollywood, (other early res holders) have you had the same issues?
 
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90% of the time when we hit STOP on the record button, the camera would lock up and would have to rebooted once or twice. It slowed us down pretty bad.
 
Did you lose footage? Did you have the latest firmware update? How long was the reboot?
 
Thanks for your useful report, Richard. Quite honest, above all. It's nice to have here the input from the customer side, as well.
 
You should work out the issues with Red (they will be very helpful) and leave this off the boards. There's enough FUD already.
 
What's your input on subject from your own RED ONE shooting experience, Shawn?

About similar issues, I mean.
 
I don't think there is a need to leave it off the boards. The footage that we did have was f**ing awesome! The clients loved the image and I was overly-impressed by what I saw. There were downsides and I think people should know that. A little balance and honesty never hurt. I think it may have been a camera issue though, because the owner said that this is the first time we were getting major bugs, go figure, the day of an actual paying gig. We tried to contact Red but being that its Sunday, nobody was around. Like I said, the stuff that survived was amazing. A handful of our clips either suffered from not being recognized in RedAlert!, crashing RedAlert!, or not being there all together. When all the bugs are worked out it will be an amazing beast, I have full faith in Red fixing these software issues.
 
That any problems should be worked out with Red privately. Red #27 continues to shoot for me, we used it this whole weekend.
 
rgdfilmsRED said:
I don't think there is a need to leave it off the boards. The footage that we did have was f**ing awesome! The clients loved the image and I was overly-impressed by what I saw. There were downsides and I think people should know that. A little balance and honesty never hurt.
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Fully agreed. Our first tool in order to sell our ideas wherever we go.
 
Wrinkles in 4k - I love the manipulation. I knew when we were shooting this that it would be a problem.. too much detail but i love it
 
euwww......I hope this isn't for a palmolive commercial :)
 
Shawn Nelson said:
... any problems should be worked out with Red privately.
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I believe that the right thing to do is to fully expose any issues with the rest of us. It is not FUD... It is reality. And such information will help and maybe even save a lot of trouble for the next project considering renting the Red camera in the next week or so where they need an ultra dependable camera for a day shoot on a Sunday.

I mean if people share all the good and bad with all other cameras, why should Red be any different. Jim has been very open so far about everything. Why can't we too?
 
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Did you lose footage?
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Oh yes
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Did you have the latest firmware update?
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Yes,
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How long was the reboot?
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5 sec. to power down. - 10 sec. off - 90 sec. power up ~ when the LCD didn't come on every other time, we would reboot. - When the camera was working without bugs, it was awesome and I loved it. When it was acting like a bad child, I would scold it but I couldn't stop loving it. Things just need working out and I'm sure Red mad men are working all the time addressing these things and trying to make them better, its just, based on experiences today, I probably wouldn't rent Red again until things were ironed out and a little more reliable. Losing footage is a real bitch fest.
 
Shawn Nelson said:
You should work out the issues with Red (they will be very helpful) and leave this off the boards. There's enough FUD already.
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I whole heartily disagree.
Full praise and trust to those that have communicated the good and the bad of their initial testing, but I'm disapointed that some early adopters have not communicated serious issues to the forum first hand, I hope it is not a sign of things to come.

Even if the likely hood is that the problem is an operator error it should be posted so that similar operator errors by other users can be avoided.



Mike Brennan
 
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