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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 :)

Scarlet and Epic BUILD 4.0.6 BETA

Chad Lancaster said:
Any way to disable the focus and distance text in the top left corner of the screen? For those of us who use Leica R lenses and such

Thanks
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http://www.reduser.net/forum/showth...n-beta-4-0-6&p=1141826&viewfull=1#post1141826

Trent Lillehaugen said:
You'll need to create a custom overlay.

- Go to Settings->Display->Monitor Control->Overlay
- Select 'Standard (RED)'
- Select 'Clone...'
- Give your overlay a name
- Select the 'F.LEN' entry in the grid
- Select 'Remove'
- Select the 'F.DST' entry in the grid
- Select 'Remove'
- Select 'Create'
- Go to Settings->Display->Monitor Control->Monitor
- Select the display you are using (e.g. Brain LCD)
- Select the overlay you created

You can export the overlay to an SSD and save on your computer to save some steps next time.
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I have a little feature-request. When i change fps i often want to change the project time base too, but going from on to the other takes a bit long. So why not add the time base to the extended fps-menu and/or maybe add a time-base setting where ptb simply is the same as fps?

BTW, being able to change fps and ptb afterwards in RCX, just via metadata, would be cool too. ;)
 
Has anyone had a problem with their footage coming out under-exposed in this build? I shot stuff through the LCD with my lens wide open (2.9) and watched the histogram. Everything looked fine in the LCD. Yet all the footage is at least 4-5 stops under-exposed in RCX.

I guess it's my fault for not more vigorously testing out properly before using on this shoot. I was on a one person shoot and didn't bring my external monitor with me either...I had come to trust the previous build as it was pretty solid.
 
I did a recalibration and it did nothing. Another shoot today and exact same result. Massively under-exposed in RCX, and yet I had the monitor out...the newest issue? Noise being introduced the longer the camera recorded a take. The camera is kicking in the fan automatically at 75 degrees when it reaches that point -quite quickly I might add- and the associated shots have significant (and I dare say unusable) noise going through the frame -horizontal lines. When I remove the cards they're physically hot...but the ambient temp where I was shooting was not. Anybody else seeing this?

I have a feeling this is related to the new build and the quick calibration...I have never seen this happen before and it's quite concerning.

I should point out -again the image in the LCD and the monitor looked fine. Yet the recordings are turning out weird.
 
I agree, 75 degree???? This is really hot, not a recommended state for your camera i would say. Have you manually adjusted the fan speed to ultra-low settings and then have you already tried all the standard-procedures? Reset the camera, re-flash the firmware and downgrade to earlier version...

Regarding the underexposing, have you compared the metadata? Maybe you're shooting higher ISO, but that setting doesn't get saved into the files? Just wild guessing here...
 
Now, when I go into 1:1 magnify, my screen slowly fades out (with horizontal lines across the screen), and then goes back to the requested mode (normal image).
This is usually followed by heavy flickering, which slowly goes away.

Anyone experiencing the same?

Generally, I think the 1:1 magnify option still needs to be fixed. To be honest, this function got much worse with the new 4 build... I hope the release fixes it for good.
Thanks!
George
 
The factory setting from Red is 75 for when the fan kicks in...I didn't adjust that because I'm shooting doc stuff and often I have to record takes of 5 minutes or longer. I assumed if below that threshold of 75 was problematic to the integrity for given images Red would have lowered the factory setting.

I have re-calibrated and re-installed. It doesn't seem to make any difference. I thought to be safe I would use 1000 ISO yesterday and managed exposure on the LCD and monitor as such, but again when I got home and looked in RCX the same under-exposing occurred, and I discovered that green cast was implemented in the meta-data at 25 something on the tint. This was not done by me and is reflective of some earlier builds a couple years ago where I noticed this happening.

When the camera is cool the picture looks fine, but within a few minutes of recording the temp shoots up very quickly, and generally by the 2nd or 3rd shot it's already pushing the 75 degree mark. I don't think that's normal.

The SSD is very, very hot to the touch. When i put in a new mag and begin recording the internal temp shoots up. In standby the fan is blasting of course.

One of the weird things I noticed was that the noise became apparent in the LCD as well as the monitor so it's possible to see the progressive degradation of the image. I even tried adjusting the ISO and shutter angle in between shots to see if perhaps that was the issue but it didn't do anything to improve the picture -not that I expected it would but thought maybe something was stuck internally.

Even in playback mode in camera the exposure seemed OK. But the noise was immediately evident.

As for RCX the meta data is read the same as my recording settings. My feeling is this is all related to the new calibration...Red has said temperature impacts noise, but if it is the camera itself altering the ambient temperature (the rooms I have been shooting in were under 60 degrees and quite large) then clearly there's a problem that cannot be fixed by selecting another black shade in between shots. As the temperature rises the image becomes noisier...I will see if I can export some snaps to give everyone an idea.

I'm going to be shooting on the older firmware on my other Epic for the time being (doc stuff I cannot afford shoot again since it only happens once)...and I will roll back this one to see if it's anything in camera that's causing the problem. For now, I don't need this weirdness. I was very happy with the prior build.
 
The good news in this build is that black shading takes half as long. 11 minutes or so, whereas before it took well over 20. If they can improve it once, they will inevitable do it again, and hopefully sooner than we might realize, and one day, not at all. Black shading is archaic but a necessary step at this point in the game. One day we'll be telling our children stories of these days, I am happy to be a part of it.
 
Degration into noise must be as close to madness and voodoo as one would like to get. Simply unusable and hoping you can call tech support, figure out what's going on, and help them to fix the issue.

Could it be a hardware component failing?


Jeremy Torrie said:
The factory setting from Red is 75 for when the fan kicks in...I didn't adjust that because I'm shooting doc stuff and often I have to record takes of 5 minutes or longer. I assumed if below that threshold of 75 was problematic to the integrity for given images Red would have lowered the factory setting.

I have re-calibrated and re-installed. It doesn't seem to make any difference. I thought to be safe I would use 1000 ISO yesterday and managed exposure on the LCD and monitor as such, but again when I got home and looked in RCX the same under-exposing occurred, and I discovered that green cast was implemented in the meta-data at 25 something on the tint. This was not done by me and is reflective of some earlier builds a couple years ago where I noticed this happening.

When the camera is cool the picture looks fine, but within a few minutes of recording the temp shoots up very quickly, and generally by the 2nd or 3rd shot it's already pushing the 75 degree mark. I don't think that's normal.

The SSD is very, very hot to the touch. When i put in a new mag and begin recording the internal temp shoots up. In standby the fan is blasting of course.

One of the weird things I noticed was that the noise became apparent in the LCD as well as the monitor so it's possible to see the progressive degradation of the image. I even tried adjusting the ISO and shutter angle in between shots to see if perhaps that was the issue but it didn't do anything to improve the picture -not that I expected it would but thought maybe something was stuck internally.

Even in playback mode in camera the exposure seemed OK. But the noise was immediately evident.

As for RCX the meta data is read the same as my recording settings. My feeling is this is all related to the new calibration...Red has said temperature impacts noise, but if it is the camera itself altering the ambient temperature (the rooms I have been shooting in were under 60 degrees and quite large) then clearly there's a problem that cannot be fixed by selecting another black shade in between shots. As the temperature rises the image becomes noisier...I will see if I can export some snaps to give everyone an idea.

I'm going to be shooting on the older firmware on my other Epic for the time being (doc stuff I cannot afford shoot again since it only happens once)...and I will roll back this one to see if it's anything in camera that's causing the problem. For now, I don't need this weirdness. I was very happy with the prior build.
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Hi, some question about the new build.

I'm using the new Custom Overlay system to build myself a way to use my non-Red LCDs, in custom overlay mode without having menus displayed. That way I have all the regular information, but full screen with look around.
What I want is to click a button, and use the jog to change the value (1-2-3-4-light // fps-rez-integrationtime-color balance...).

So I used the keymap system to assign the number key a function : Slot: Set XXX.
The problem is that if I don't have a second Live output where the Menu is on, the assignable function Slot: Set is not working.
I thought it might be the Tools utility in the "Monitor Mode" but so far, I didn't notice any change. I'm not using Show Dialogue: XXX to be faster.

What am I doing wrong as I'm sure it's doable, it's seems pretty basic.


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Another thing, does anybody have been able to get the Auto Preset to work ?
I have two sets of key, with minor differences (prev. Clip, play-pause, next clip). On both my camera (Epic and Scarlet) it's working one time, but it's always stuck in playback mode, and I can't have my original set of keys when coming back to the preview mode.

Am I doing something wrong here too ?
 
Hi,

since we installed the 4.0.6 BETA we had 2 faulty clips out of a few fully recorded Redmags. When i open the Redmag in Redcine X there is no preview picture for the damaged clip instead it displays "offline". When i open the Redmag in the finder the damaged clip seems to have the proper file size but there`s no way the play it back.

Never had this problem before installing the 4.0.6 BETA. Is this firmware related or is there something wrong with my Redmags? Anyone else here had this problem?
 
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