Scarlet and Epic BUILD 4 BETA

[Rob Anderson]

How reliable does the build seems? Any serious issues?

The only recurring thing has been a little bit of interface lag here and there. Beyond that, any other bugs or niggles were solved with a reboot or enabling/disabling whatever feature seemed sticky. I've got no problem running into a production with this build right now.

 

[Brian D. Goff]

wwwwooooooohhhhh! Great!

 

[Phil Holland]

Found a repeatable bug that I'm able to repeat on Scarlet even with re-installation.

- While in 1:1 pixel zoom/magnify if changing ISO the image doesn't adjust on screen.
- After leaving 1:1 pixel zoom/magnify while changing ISO the image doesn't adjust on screen.
- If going back into 1:1 pixel zoom/magnify it will adjust the brightness to the selected ISO, but you lose the ability to adjust and have the changes reflected on zoom out.

 

[Phil Holland]

Found another repeatable bug on Scarlet also related to 1:1 pixel zoom/magnify.

- When camera first boots and viewing RAW functions as expected.
- After/during 1:1 pixel zoom/magnify RAW preview provides odd greenish, contrasty, and saturated tint to the image. (almost like tint is not being accounted for or smashing in one direction)

 

[Suresh Kara]

this is great!

but how do i adjust the User selectable 1:1 zoom position?

 

[Uli Plank]

Activate the focus window, even with non-AF lenses. It was explained further back in this thread.

 

[Suresh Kara]

found it

thanks!

 

[Davud Karadag]

Flaming Nora.

I'm going to have to scratch my head on this 'long exposure' lark. 100% crop:

Mike

Did you black shade for this exposure??

I just did a couple quick tests and got good results using a 1 sec exposure black shade for a 16 sec exposure shot. Here's a link to 4 5k jpg's. http://dl.dropbox.com/u/32823448/Timelapse Test.zip
Pics 1 & 2 are 1 sec exposure. Pics 3 & 4 are 16sec exposure. Pic 1 used my old black shade settings (from 1/50 exposure) and 2-4 use a new black shade done at 1 sec exposure. You can see a clear improvement when the new black shade settings are used.

 

[fALk Gärtner]

The firmware that I have been waiting on - that makes the Scarlet complete Anybody experience with the powersavemodes already? any good?

 

[DP Marcus Larsson SE]

thanks very good present to Christmas Thanks and have a great holiday!

Best

 

[Patrick Grossien]

OK, Jarred, Trent, Bied and all the others! Thank you so much for the early christmas present. This is significant! Also, and especially I'd love to give a shout out to the good work on the UI design. I finally dig the UI look. Nicely done. Sad thing about it is, I haven't found anything to complain yet. Hehehe!

It's much cleaner and nicer. For one, I just want to acknowledge the new look of the sliders! And also the fields, text, buttons etc. have been repositioned and are not just flying around (almost) randomly This is a major improvement! Once again: good work everyone... now I'm off to play with the settings

 

[Eric Santiago]

heh heh we are just beginning....

Couldnt sleep, woke up at 6am just to install this.

Thanks Jim, Jarred and RED team.

Best pre-Christmas gift ever!!...oh wait my Scarlet is first then this build

Happy Holidays RED and REDUSERs!!

 

[Patrick Grossien]

Uhm, external frame trigger anyone?

1 frames/pulse .... does this mean this is the dedicated stills mode and useable for stop-motion?

Haven't gotten my head wrapped around how to use this yet when triggering with the side-handle...
It seems, I can put it into record mode (it looks as if its recording but it just captures 1 frame) if I push the side handle again, it stops recording.
Now how can I capture more frames while in recording mode/ how do I trigger?

 

[Karl Roeder]

Thank youuuu!

Thank youuuu!

Thank you for your continued hard work and for these significant improvements.
Very much appreciated.
- KR

 

[Eric Santiago]

Greg.. if you are really comparing your Scarlet to a pair of socks, then please send your camera back to us.. we will give you back what you paid for it. That's just not cool.

You guys are amazing, I wish Sony would follow suit and give back our money wasted on the XDCAM tech

 

[Manu BERNARD]

This is a seriously awesome update. Someone asked earlier in the thread, so here's an 'expanded' description for each improvement found in the build.

* Updated UI

The User Interface (UI) has been enhanced. If you've got a RED TOUCH 9" LCD, you'll notice the UI components are no longer scaled up or heavily pixelated. Everything is now drawn to scale for the monitor and it's much sharper and cleaner looking all around. Buttons have been cleaned up quite a bit. It's a great improvement over the original.

* Added Pre-Record

You can enable "pre-record" to start capturing footage before you even hit record. Found in SETTINGS > RECORDING > [PRE-RECORD]. Duration can be set to 10, 20, and 30 seconds. Once enabled, the DSMC will continuously capture a scratch cache of footage, prior to you hitting record. This way, you won't miss the start of a shot by being a little slow on the trigger.

* Added Time Lapse

Found in SETTINGS > RECORDING > [MODE] > "Recording Mode" [Internal Timelapse Timer]. The default, "continuous recording" locks your recording into the normal FPS/angle parameters. With Internal Timelapse Timer enabled, you can now set a 1 frame interval to capture every X-seconds. X-seconds can be set from a minimum of 1 second up to 3,599 seconds (1 frame captured every 60 minutes).

You can also set the recording to end at a predefined frame limit. SETTINGS > RECORDING > [X] Limit Recording To: [selectable].

* Added Record Ramp Varispeed

Found in SETTINGS > RECORDING > [MODE] > "Recording Mode" [Speed Ramp mode]. Next, set the target FPS and amount of time you want to allow the speed ramp to adjust. For example, 96 FPS and 5 seconds would ramp your capture speed from whatever you set the start at (24 FPS, for example) and in 5 seconds, the FPS speed will increase from 24 FPS to 96 FPS leading to a very smooth transition of FPS being captured.

Next, you'll want to assign a key to trigger the ramp. SETTINGS > SETUP > KEYS > [Key Mapping] or [Soft Keys]. You'll want to assign the key "Record: Start Speed Ramp" to either a hard key or a screen/touch 'soft' key (or both for convenience).

You can only ramp speed once. So if you default your FPS to 24 and ramp up to 96, once you hit record, you'll be capturing at 24 FPS. Now trigger the "Record: Start Speed Ramp" key and, at the interval you defined, FPS will increase to 96. It will then stay at 96 FPS until you stop recording.

* Added Vertical Monitor Flip

Found in SETTINGS > DISPLAY > MONITOR CONTROL > and then [X] Flip/Mirror UI and [X] Flip Video. With both enabled, you'll flip the UI and the video upside down on your monitors. This doesn't change how your footage is captured -- only how you interface with your footage on camera via monitors. This is useful for more unusual mounting positions of the touch screens, including a horizontal folded out option that treats the screen more like a flat touch surface.

* Added Vertical and Horizontal UI Flip/Mirror

See above.

* Added Custom Overlay

Found in SETTINGS > DISPLAY > MONITOR CONTROL > OVERLAY. User-definable UI overlays you can figure to personalize and move things around. There are also presets installed including options for 3D controls. Overlays can be stored on the camera or transferred to SSD and stored on computers or copied from camera-to-camera. You can create overlays directly within the DSMC UI.

* Added Power Save Modes

Found in POWER > [POWER SAVE]. Three settings you can define; (1) Low Power Preview, (2) Sleep, (3) Auto Shutdown for when the camera is not in use.

* Added User selectable 1:1 zoom

1:1 pixel zoom for concise focusing.

* Added Selectable LCD Frequency

Greater support for LCD monitoring. Found in SETTINGS > DISPLAY > MONITOR CONTROL and then "Frequency" dependencies for each monitoring option (Brain LCD, Brain EVF, etc).

* Added Import/Export user cal maps

Found in SETTINGS > MAINTENANCE > CALIBRATION > "Current CalMap" drop-down. Default is factory and this can now be changed to "user HS". User-selectable calibration maps for camera settings.

* Added Calibration warnings for exposure and temperature

Self-explanatory. If calibrations are out-of-sync with expected exposure and temperature maps, you'll get a warning to adjust calibration.

* Added Luma Ramp Test Pattern

Found in SETTINGS > DISPLAY > TEST SIGNALS > [LUMA RAMP]. A luma ramp (black to white pattern) will display.

* Added Pro IO and Monitor Audio Mixer

Found in AUDIO. Additional tools for adjusting the Pro IO (if connected) and monitoring audio mix.

* Added internal frame summing for long exposures

Trent posted an explanation of this here:
http://www.reduser.net/forum/showth...BUILD-4-BETA&p=1124041&viewfull=1#post1124041
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.

* Added internal frame averaging capability (advanced noise reduction)

Found in SETTINGS > RECORDING > [FRAME PROCESSING]. You can now set the drop-down from "No Frame Processing" to "Frame Summing" (long exposures, see above) or "Frame Averaging" (noise reduction). Still testing this and looking forward to posting results. Sounds awesome.

* Added REDmote Auto Pairing

Shutdown and reboot DSMC and REDmote and both will now auto-pair, once previously synchronized.

* Added +1 Module Support

Jarred has previously posted the +1 Module will now ship in february. This module will allow you to run two RED Touch monitors (a 9" and a 5" for example), or a Touch with an EVF, etc.

* Added pluge pattern to SMPTE bars

Found in SETTINGS > DISPLAY > TEST SIGNALS.

* Separate Audio Channel Setup

Found in AUDIO.

* Calibration capture speed-up

Black calibration takes approximately 10-12 minutes now. An improvement of around 60%. Keep in mind, temperatures cause things to drift and re-calibration is required.

* Improved RAW metering

Found in SETTINGS > DISPLAY > TOOLS > then "RAW" button. Picture looks cleaner but not sure what else has changed here.

* Enhanced AF

Found in FOCUS > [X] ENHANCED A/F with selectable monitor, monitor frequency, and "Confirm Style". Sounds great, but I've got no idea as to what this actually does in practice. Once enabled, the output you defined for "Enhanced A/F" is no longer controllable under SETTINGS > DISPLAY > MONITOR CONTROL. Message says, "This monitor is being used for Enhanced Auto Focus". The device you set Enhanced A/F to run on displays a clean picture. I can't tell what else this feature does or is supposed to do. I've tried enabling this with a number of non-touch monitors -- is a second RED Touch required (and thus a Pro I/O or a +1 Module)?


* Feature Request

I'd love the ability to set a 1:1 spot focus to stay continuously enabled across a second monitor (RED Touch or HDMI/SDI monitor out). Then we could have a small monitor with the 1:1 focus enabled on that monitor alone, while we navigate menus and capture with full preview on our main.

Thanks a lot! I was the one who ask for details. That help very much. Clear as crystal.

 

[John Wee]

GUYS .. GUYS !! In the midst of celebration of continuous new features and functions that we RED users were privileged with, I ask you to please take a moment and pray for our beloved Canon users and their C300. http://nofilmschool.com/2012/12/canon-fixes-c300-color-fringing/ thank you all & have a Merry Christmas !!

 

[Trent Lillehaugen]

Questions ...

Epic-X start up time : anybody else experiencing very long start up times, much longer than 3.x build ?
Pre-Record : setting is lost once you record something (have to re-select); different behaviour than Interval TimelapseTimer which stays active and de-activated via menu. ANY CHANCE OF HAVING 5_SEC PRE-RECORD OPTION TOO PLEASE ?
LCD vertical bands : these appear from time to time, especially once a shot is previewed and when returinng to live view bands appear (can be got rid of by going into Settings > Monitor Control > Monitor (Brain LCD) toggle frequency from 30Hz to 59.94 and back)
Power Save > Sleep : I guess the label should say 'LCD Sleep' ?

Thanks, David

What do you mean by much longer? I believe boot time may have increased slightly, but I wouldn't characterize it as much longer.

You need to activate pre-record each time you want to engage it. One way to do so is to press the button on the pre-record tab another way is to map a key to 'Record: Start Pre-Record'.

If the vertical bands persist please open a support ticket and send in a log file.

Sleep mode does more than just LCD Sleep.

 

[Trent Lillehaugen]

Found a repeatable bug that I'm able to repeat on Scarlet even with re-installation.

- While in 1:1 pixel zoom/magnify if changing ISO the image doesn't adjust on screen.
- After leaving 1:1 pixel zoom/magnify while changing ISO the image doesn't adjust on screen.
- If going back into 1:1 pixel zoom/magnify it will adjust the brightness to the selected ISO, but you lose the ability to adjust and have the changes reflected on zoom out.

Thanks for reporting this. I believe we've already fixed this for the next 4.0.x release.

 

[Trent Lillehaugen]

Uhm, external frame trigger anyone?

1 frames/pulse .... does this mean this is the dedicated stills mode and useable for stop-motion?

Haven't gotten my head wrapped around how to use this yet when triggering with the side-handle...
It seems, I can put it into record mode (it looks as if its recording but it just captures 1 frame) if I push the side handle again, it stops recording.
Now how can I capture more frames while in recording mode/ how do I trigger?

You can assign a key to 'Record: External Frame Trigger'.