Tethered EPIC?

[Brian F Kobylarz]

Couple of points:
Nobody wants CF cards anymore.
For Scarlet, you only need 50 megabytes per second write speed. That is easy these days.

Missing the point. I brought up the CF cards only as an example that many old-timers on this user forum would remember.
RED had allowed or prohibited recording media via communication protocols.
I would be surprised if they had abandoned that practice.

One reason the cards cost as they do is the testing.
The same manufacturer and model number does not guarantee equal performance.
Even if written specs on a device look good, there may be other factors that they consider during testing.

Amazing, old-timers are just a few years old here.

 

[Rocco Schult]

What if Canon said you can only use Canon SD cards in the DSLR ?

" We at Canon Corporate feel that to protect the consumer from disappointment when shooting in movie mode have only enabled movie mode when a Canon high speed SD card is inserted. "

RED did so in the past, you can bet they stick to it.

 

[Charlie_Grinnell]

Would be interested to see if shooting tethered would be considered as a feature request. I spent the last week in the studio shooting macro dolly stuff and I had our studio photographer in the same room as me and she kept laughing when I had to dump SSD's, she kept asking me why RED doesn't have a tethered shooting solution.

 

[Pawel Achtel]

I'll have to take a look at the 3D thread mentioned; anyone got a link?

Hey Mike, yes we managed to split the brain from the SSD and keep the patient alive

here is most recent post: http://www.reduser.net/forum/showth...tension-cord&p=1127121&viewfull=1#post1127121

and here is the relevant post in the original thread: http://www.reduser.net/forum/showth...ing-for-Epic&p=1023214&viewfull=1#post1023214

...Common sense and common courtesy would dictate running prototype cables or hardware past Jarred for sanity checking...

Yep. Tick.

 

[Charlie_Grinnell]

I was more thinking of being able to stick something in the SSD slot that would allow you to connect to a computer with USB3, eSATA, Thunderbolt (or whatever fast enough connection you want) and then every time you record, a new clip shows up in redcine-x pro, kind of like how stills people have it setup to work with lightroom.

 

[Victor Lazaro]

I'm just curious of why you would want such system (I'm not saying that it is not useful, just curious to know why it wouldn't be better to simply use small mags and quickly offload to a station after each setup for instance. giving you the freedom to move the camera without an extra cable.)

 

[L. Langer]

If enough people want it, RED will provide tethering if it's feasible without costing too much for them and you. The RED ONE platform did have a tethered design testbed using fiber optics - this is what Team RED told us at the time - but it was very expensive to implement as a product and would have been an option only for the high-roller owners, which made it untenable as an option to offer.