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Scarlet - X Hacked ::THIS CAN'T BE LEGAL OR GOOD FOR RED::

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On March 27th a group of firmware re- developers (hackers) posted boot-log packets on the popular camera hacking consortium Magic Lantern's site. The firmware supposedly copied from the famed Red Epic-M camera was used to re-boot the Scarlet-x, removing all previous limitations while adding new features like noise reduction, higher frame rates, 1 stop more dynamic range and in-camera scaled recording of Apple Pro-res 422HQ codec at 2k. They were extremely excited about the Pro-res recording a feature Red has refused to enable in its cameras. The hackers attribute all their successes to the ingenuity of Red's engineers, claiming Red was only sloppy in securing the camera firmware builds which are easy to download from the support section of their site. The hackers claim the most time spent was finding a Scarlet owner willing to experiment with their camera. The Hack has now been downloaded and working successfully for 92 alpha testers. Phillip Bloom a vocal critic of Red, posted on his popular blog "this hack makes the Scarlet the best indie camera on the market, I just placed an order for 3". Cinematographer Hewlett Van Burensen did a low light test which confirmed the new low light and noise reduction capabilities which make the camera useable at ISO 6400.

No word has been heard from camp Red, which is rather unusual as this hack threatens future Epic-x sales.
 
Too funny :)
 
I don't think April Fools' is an international phenomenon. This could get crazy fast....

had me laughing though. a fleeting moment of geeky thrill with the morning coffee.
 
shashbugu said:
On March 27th a group of firmware re- developers (hackers) posted boot-log packets on the popular camera hacking consortium Magic Lantern's site. The firmware supposedly copied from the famed Red Epic-M camera was used to re-boot the Scarlet-x, removing all previous limitations while adding new features like noise reduction, higher frame rates, 1 stop more dynamic range and in-camera scaled recording of Apple Pro-res 422HQ codec at 2k. They were extremely excited about the Pro-res recording a feature Red has refused to enable in its cameras. The hackers attribute all their successes to the ingenuity of Red's engineers, claiming Red was only sloppy in securing the camera firmware builds which are easy to download from the support section of their site. The hackers claim the most time spent was finding a Scarlet owner willing to experiment with their camera. The Hack has now been downloaded and working successfully for 92 alpha testers. Phillip Bloom a vocal critic of Red, posted on his popular blog "this hack makes the Scarlet the best indie camera on the market, I just placed an order for 3". Cinematographer Hewlett Van Burensen did a low light test which confirmed the new low light and noise reduction capabilities which make the camera useable at ISO 6400.

No word has been heard from camp Red, which is rather unusual as this hack threatens future Epic-x sales.
Click to expand...

Yeah...so what...
 
Shashbugu,
I was thinking about your April 1 dream :-)

The Red One seems to be a real computer and has the ability to be totally re-configurable...
If think there are still unexplored areas in this great camera.
With the SSD version we could now have 4K uncompressed RAW at 60 fps (Open gate function of the viewfinder clearly show 60 fps...but the cpu can't compress at this frame rate). USB ports for remote control like Canon... Use of the 2 sata ports... and so on...
Maybe a day we will see an open source RED firmware for the discontinued products...
The future will say if obsolescence is obsolete :-)
Have a good dream!
 
Martin,

Yes, you are right... 4K @ 60 FPS is a lot of data and the RED ONE has not enough processing power to compress that.
But there are 2 sata ports 3 Gbits/s = 6 Gbits = 600 MB/s available. If we add a SSD to the 2nd sata port, we could make a raid0 with 2 SSD.

Uncompressed streams @ lower frame rates and/or resolutions need less processing power... only more bandwidth.
For example:
4K 16/9 at 24fps RAW or 2K 16/9 at 96fps = 324MB/s
4K 2.35 at 48fps RAW = 490MB/s

For stills & Timelapses it would be even more interesting to bypass the encoder...
 
Haha, I was viewing this thread today and got extremely fooled since April first was long gone.
After reading the first post I looked at the post date... Haha, so disappointing :P
 
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