Scarlet and Epic BUILD 4 BETA

[Carlos Reyes]

I dont have a force hdmi preset on my SSDs and I get the hdmi feed and menus on a smallhd dp6 on my scarlet thats on 3.3.14 is this normal? Scared to upgrade to the new firmware and not be able to access the menus

 

[Harry Lipnick]

I dont have a force hdmi preset on my SSDs and I get the hdmi feed and menus on a smallhd dp6 on my scarlet thats on 3.3.14 is this normal? Scared to upgrade to the new firmware and not be able to access the menus

Trent-
Not to pester, but while we have you for a few minutes can you lend us some guidance on how to proceed with the update without a RED monitor?
Thanks and happy holidays!
Best,

-Harry

 

[Rick Darge]

How do we get a 30 second exposure exactly?

 

[Trent Lillehaugen]

Very cool but... 'no way to ramp down'?

Is that literal, as in you can only ever increase FPS, never decrease (for some weird reason? what reason would that be?), or do you mean you can only ramp *once*, either way? So could you program one ramp, one assigned key, and have the ramp be 100FPS - 24FPS instead of 24FPS - 100FPS?

Thanks

Mike

I meant you can only ramp once, you can set it up to ramp from 100FPS->24FPS if you chose.
What you cannot do is from 24FPS -> 100FPS -> 24FPS.

 

[Michael Dalton]

I see. But... the Epic is a motion camera! Leave timelapse to the DSLRs... having an awesome noise reduction feature on the Epic limited to timelapse feels like such a tease.

Only my opinion of course, I don't shoot timelapse and have frequently wished for more noise reduction shooting at night.

Try shooting time-lapse on an epic and see if you'd say this again. Shooting time-lapse on a DSLR is painful. Nice to have it all in a nice small RAW file that is amazing to colour correct. I shot time-lapses for a day on epic, and realized I'd rather cut my privates off then go back. Ok, not quite, but you get what I mean.

 

[Trent Lillehaugen]

How do we get a 30 second exposure exactly?

You can't get 30 seconds (the max is 16.15 seconds).

To enable long exposures:

- Goto: Settings->Recording->Frame Processing
- Set Frame Processing Mode to "Frame Summing"
- Chose the number of Frames to Process (this will act as a divider on the framerate).

For example, if you chose 16 frames in summing mode, then you can set your framerate down to 1/16.15FPS (or 16.15 seconds per frame). Your exposure time still needs to be set. Or more precisely, you still have control over your exposure time for each frame that is summed to create the long exposure. Choosing a full exposure is like a traditional long exposure. However you can chose a smaller exposure time for effect if you like. In this mode you are previewing before the summing so expose accordingly. As soon as you hit record you will see the summed exposure.

 

[Casey Green]

Many thanks, RED! Happy Holidays to all of you as well!

 

[Trent Lillehaugen]

Trent-
Not to pester, but while we have you for a few minutes can you lend us some guidance on how to proceed with the update without a RED monitor?
Thanks and happy holidays!
Best,

-Harry

Are you asking about getting the preset files so that you can setup your camera to boot to menus on HDMI?

If so, I'll see what I can do about getting those to you guys.

 

[Jeff Whitehurst]

Just discovered 30 second exposure! The stars are going to be shining bright tonight

How?

How do we get a 30 second exposure exactly?

Sorry guys, posting faster than Iʻm paying attention. The Interval Timelapse feature caught my eye and I thought that was a 30 second exposure feature. Still digging around, but it seems that the maximum exposure seems to be 1fps, 1 second exposure. Apologies for the mixup.

 

[Matthew J]

UI interface suggestion. When you are in the menus, the little "menu" icon at the top right should change to a <- back arrow (I would suggest a curved back arrow) so you know that you can touch that to go back up a level. It seems basic, but it would be a help to remind you that you can go back up a menu level by touching that instead of having to start at the beginning again.

Also, when I tried the first time to play back some clips it gave me all sorts of weird, broken image on the clip playback area. I then unplugged the 5" RED LCD and plugged it back in. No picture. Unplugged and plugged back in and it came up, but back in live view. Tried playing the clips again and it was fine. Are these the kind of bugs that if I eject the media at that point, it will write a log file which would include all the errors which happened?

 

[Brandon J.F.]

Sorry guys, posting faster than Iʻm paying attention. The Interval Timelapse feature caught my eye and I thought that was a 30 second exposure feature. Still digging around, but it seems that the maximum exposure seems to be 1fps, 1 second exposure. Apologies for the mixup.

This is how:

You can't get 30 seconds (the max is 16.15 seconds).

To enable long exposures:

- Goto: Settings->Recording->Frame Processing
- Set Frame Processing Mode to "Frame Summing"
- Chose the number of Frames to Process (this will act as a divider on the framerate).

For example, if you chose 16 frames in summing mode, then you can set your framerate down to 1/16.15FPS (or 16.15 seconds per frame). Your exposure time still needs to be set. Or more precisely, you still have control over your exposure time for each frame that is summed to create the long exposure. Choosing a full exposure is like a traditional long exposure. However you can chose a smaller exposure time for effect if you like. In this mode you are previewing before the summing so expose accordingly. As soon as you hit record you will see the summed exposure.

 

[Harry Lipnick]

Are you asking about getting the preset files so that you can setup your camera to boot to menus on HDMI?

If so, I'll see what I can do about getting those to you guys.

Yes exactly. The so-called force presets that are in the "DSMC Resources 3.2", but to have all 4 (HDMI/HDSDI @ 720/1080) for FW 4.0.3.

Thanks!

Harry

 

[Colin Hubick]

Shooting time-lapse on a DSLR is painful.

I wouldn't say shooting time-lapse on DSLR in painful, but the post process to get that into footage can be monotonous at best. Then if you want to adjust the raw afterwards you are looking at adjusting them all, then you go through the whole output process over again if you want to revise the output. A lot easier with r3d.

I'm looking forward to trying it out over Christmas!

 

[Trent Lillehaugen]

Yes exactly. The so-called force presets that are in the "DSMC Resources 3.2", but to have all 4 (HDMI/HDSDI @ 720/1080) for FW 4.0.3.

Thanks!

Harry

Ok, I'm looking into how we can add them to the download section (no guarantees).

 

[Carlos Reyes]

Ok, I'm looking into how we can add them to the download section (no guarantees).

Couldnt resist the temptation and now I dont have menus haha damn it. That would be a huge help Trent!

 

[Michael Dalton]

I wouldn't say shooting time-lapse on DSLR in painful, but the post process to get that into footage can be monotonous at best. Then if you want to adjust the raw afterwards you are looking at adjusting them all, then you go through the whole output process over again if you want to revise the output. A lot easier with r3d.

I'm looking forward to trying it out over Christmas!

Copying, combining, cc'ing and storing are all painful. My epic stuff is so much nicer to work from. What does a RAW photo sequence take up in Gigabytes? The interval time is going to be great!

 

[Trent Lillehaugen]

For those of you who like customizing their cameras with presets we've added a few tools to make it a bit easier.

You can now 'Clone' or 'Update' an existing preset file.

Both 'Clone' and 'Update' will bring up the normal preset creation dialog with the parameters in the selected preset already pre-populated on the right hand side. If you want, you can modify the set before saving. When cloning a preset you must provide a new preset name, where as update will overwrite the existing preset.

Note:
Both 'Clone' and 'Update' will use the CURRENT camera settings for all the parameters. That is, 'Update' is not and 'Edit', you cannot go in a tweak individual values.

 

[Cory Reynolds]

Is there a way to add monitor flip to soft keys, or any other shortcut?

 

[Jeff Whitehurst]

This is how:

Yep thanks, saw that and just tried it out by shooting a clock face in almost total darkness. Black shade calibration didnʻt match but I recorded the second hand sweep and the exposure is there. Nice feature!

 

[Terry VerHaar]

Trent - can we maybe expect a new release on the manual pretty soon?