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Scarlet: Question and an Answer

Peter Matthes

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This evening we tested four brand new, fully charged, Redvolts in the Scarlet-X in standby mode.

Keep in mind that:

- These are brand new Redvolts on their first charge.
- We obviously had the side handle attached.
- We have a 5" touchscreen LCD hooked up ... and the Redmote docked, but fully charged and not drawing a charge from the camera.
- The fans were set to "Auto" and the camera left only to standby in a moderately warm room. We did not roll the camera for this test.
- If it matters to anyone, I had the Canon 70-200mm f/2.8L II zoom lens attached.

All four Redvolts lasted 40 minutes (give or take 90 seconds). I was hearing 30-35 minutes with the Epic, so this might be a slight edge the Scarlet has.

Obviously, this time will shorten when rolling the camera, but good news.

Question: Anyone know if playback is enabled in the Scarlet-X yet?
 
Hmm ... I better stop drinking whiskey, and put the cigar down.

Thanks, Stephen.
 
I had a chance to mess around with Scarlet a bit today, and pressing the triangular button in the upper left of the LCD take it into Playback mode (if I remember correctly). Playback was snappy and smooth.
 
As I understand it, there has been no power management programmed into the firmware as yet, so rolling the camera might not actually cut this 40 minutes down. Once there is power management enabled, then there will be a difference from running standby vs. shooting. Again, this is just how I interpret what I have read here on Reduser so far.
 
Yeah ... I found that triangular "play" symbol in the upper left corner and got the camera into playback mode ... but the controls are grayed out.

First night of tinkering and testing ... and celebrating.
 
Terry VerHaar said:
As I understand it, there has been no power management programmed into the firmware as yet, so rolling the camera might not actually cut this 40 minutes down. Once there is power management enabled, then there will be a difference from running standby vs. shooting. Again, this is just how I interpret what I have read here on Reduser so far.
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I'll drain two batteries - rolling the whole way - just for you, Terry.

Let's test this out. I'll report back.
 
Peter Matthes said:
Yeah ... I found that triangular "play" symbol in the upper left corner and got the camera into playback mode ... but the controls are grayed out.

First night of tinkering and testing ... and celebrating.
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Were you in HDRx mode? Perhaps playback worked for us because we weren't in that mode, but I can't recall.
 
Peter Matthes said:
Yeah ... I found that triangular "play" symbol in the upper left corner and got the camera into playback mode ... but the controls are grayed out.

First night of tinkering and testing ... and celebrating.
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ditto. . . I'm selecting recorded clips but playback is greyed out and oddly when metadata is viewed there is NONE....
bringing clips into RCX via the red station is fine.

edit/update: cycled power by removing a/c completely and ejected and psychically reinserted mags and could playback previously recorded clips. not sure why it wouldnt work immediately but there it is now
 
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Hey Peter, in between sips of whisky and watching battery power drain away. I'm assuming you can only do this because you got a sidehandle shipped as well as the camera ?
 
Mike Garrick said:
Hey Peter, in between sips of whisky and watching battery power drain away. I'm assuming you can only do this because you got a sidehandle shipped as well as the camera ?
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I'll field this one, Peter. Yes.

How would I know sight unseen? My good friend POE told me (Process Of Elimination). There is no way to use redvolts without a side handle or a battery module, and the battery module isn't out until January 19th according to Jarred

Give it up for critical thinking, everybody!
 
Joe Minuni said:
ditto. . . I'm selecting recorded clips but playback is greyed out and oddly when metadata is viewed there is NONE....
bringing clips into RCX via the red station is fine.

edit/update: cycled power by removing a/c completely and ejected and psychically reinserted mags and could playback previously recorded clips. not sure why it wouldnt work immediately but there it is now
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Thanks Joe. I'll give that a try.

My report on the Redvolts is that I ran two fully charged, first charge, Redvolts with the camera rolling non-stop.
All the standby conditions were replicated.

Battery #1 ... 39 minutes 20 seconds
Battery #2 ... 39 minutes 45 seconds

So ... you were right Terry. There is basically little to no difference.
 
Doug Beatty said:
I'll field this one, Peter. Yes.

How would I know sight unseen? My good friend POE told me (Process Of Elimination). There is no way to use redvolts without a side handle or a battery module, and the battery module isn't out until January 19th according to Jarred

Give it up for critical thinking, everybody!
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Hey Mike,

Yes ... I am using the side handle.
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I actually received my side handle a month or so before the Scarlet body. I was lucky to be online when they were added to the Red store.
 
Peter Matthes said:
Thanks Joe. I'll give that a try.

My report on the Redvolts is that I ran two fully charged, first charge, Redvolts with the camera rolling non-stop.
All the standby conditions were replicated.

Battery #1 ... 39 minutes 20 seconds
Battery #2 ... 39 minutes 45 seconds

So ... you were right Terry. There is basically little to no difference.
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Thanks, Peter. It's always nice to discover you understand something correctly, but even better is the fact that some power management will give us all better REDvolt yields!!
 
40 minutes rolling, great news ! I was expecting some trouble with 6 revolts and 3 charges but I reckon I'm gonna be just fine !
 
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