The H.264 module a dream product for ENG?

[JohnF]

The announced Epic/Scarlet H.264 module a great product for ENG shooters?

With a truly decent camera shoot and send (stream/email etc) material/items from the field at 1080 with a 3K(Scarlet) to 5K(Epic) image on file for later use/incorporation/sales!

With this announcement it seems to me that ENG stringing just got a whole lot better.

Any thoughts?

JohnF

 

[Colm O'Rourke]

It is a good start but unfortunetely most editors would prefer prores or avid mxf files to edit with. So in most cases you would still have to convert to something else which kind of negates its usefulness for editing. The main two Nle's avid and fcp are not optimized to work with h.264 so performance is a little slow in fcp and you would have to spend time importing the quicktimes to use in avid. Possibly with more time Red will use this module to also produce prores or and dnxhd.


colm@sonicfilms.co.uk
www.sonicfilms.co.uk
London

 

[Sanjin Jukic]

You can do wireless streaming HDMI on RED1 TODAY using the latest Gefen Wireless HDMI Extender

Gefen Wireless HDMI Extender Price:$999.00

You can do streaming from this combo: RED1+Gefen Wireless HDMI Extender to AJA KiPro

and after that right away start to edit your footage from RED ONE in FCP.


Features:

Real-time, visually lossless HD video compression
Two HDMI inputs and one Component Video / Analog Audio input
Support for Dolby 5.1 Surround Sound
Fully HDMI and HDCP compliant
Supports HDMI 1.3 Lip Sync features for source devices
2-ch Audio and PCM @ 32KHz, 44.1KHz, 48KHz supported as well as multichannel compressed 5.1 audio
IR Blaster and IR Receiver jacks
Input Selector Switch


Specifications:

Up to 30 feet line-of-sight wireless operation with 65 Mbps throughput
Frequency Band Range: 3.1 - 4.8 GHz
Resolutions: 480i, 480p, 720p, 1080i and 1080p@24Hz, 25Hz, and 30Hz
HDMI 1.3 Compatible, HDMI 1.2 Compliant
Consumer Electronics Control (CEC) compliant
ADI JPEG 2000 visual lossless compression
Operating Temperature: 0 to 40 degrees C
Operating Humidity: 10% to 90% relative humidity, non-condensing
Power Supply: 5V DC
Power Consumption: 12.5 Watts (max) each power supply
FCC Compliant Part 15
Dimensions: 6" W x 2" H x 4" D
Shipping Weight: 6 lbs.

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[Damien Molineaux]

Hi Sanjin,

Interesting product, and great price. Have you had a chance to try one out ?

How could this be powered on camera ? How good is the signal if say the transmitter is on a steadicam, inside an appartment ?

On a side note, how does the AJA KiPro deal with file names, start and stop record and does it have record any metadata over HD-SDI or HDMI ? This is in my opinion a great advantage of Red's H.264 onboard module, you will have files that really match the .r3d files, making the off-line to on-line really stright forward.

Cheers,
Damien

 

[Sanjin Jukic]

Hi Sanjin,

Interesting product, and great price. Have you had a chance to try one out ?

How could this be powered on camera ? How good is the signal if say the transmitter is on a steadicam, inside an appartment ?

On a side note, how does the AJA KiPro deal with file names, start and stop record and does it have record any metadata over HD-SDI or HDMI ? This is in my opinion a great advantage of Red's H.264 onboard module, you will have files that really match the .r3d files, making the off-line to on-line really stright forward.

Cheers,
Damien

Hi Damien,

I still didn't make a final decision to purchase either Gefen Wireless HDMI Extender or AJA KiPro.

But now I'm in a stage just thinking and considering about it.

At the moment there are many reasons for that sort of "delay" caused first with the shipping

slowdown thanks to the volcanic ash from Iceland and second is a need of more real end user info about both products.

Gefen Wireless HDMI Extender could be possible to power from battery using "reconfigured"

Switronix Ptap to AJA 5v Cable.

Also it probably needs a kind of "Clipfinder" third party software solution to work with the AJA KiPro file names

and custom made hardware/cable solution for the button that can simultaneously start/stop recording on R1 and KiPro.

I have a good feeling that all is possible.

 

[Hrvoje Simic]

The announced Epic/Scarlet H.264 module a great product for ENG shooters?

With a truly decent camera shoot and send (stream/email etc) material/items from the field at 1080 with a 3K(Scarlet) to 5K(Epic) image on file for later use/incorporation/sales!

With this announcement it seems to me that ENG stringing just got a whole lot better.

Any thoughts?

JohnF

One needs to edit the material first, and h.264 is a delivery codec. You don't want to edit h.264 if you don't have to. Both cameras should support in-camera scaling to 1080p.

 

[Rob Ruffo]

Hi Damien,

I still didn't make a final decision to purchase either Gefen Wireless HDMI Extender or AJA KiPro.

But now I'm in a stage just thinking and considering about it.

At the moment there are many reasons for that sort of "delay" caused first with the shipping

slowdown thanks to the volcanic ash from Iceland and second is a need of more real end user info about both products.

Gefen Wireless HDMI Extender could be possible to power from battery using "reconfigured"

Switronix Ptap to AJA 5v Cable.

Also it probably needs a kind of "Clipfinder" third party software solution to work with the AJA KiPro file names

and custom made hardware/cable solution for the button that can simultaneously start/stop recording on R1 and KiPro.

I have a good feeling that all is possible.

You could also mount a Nanoflash right on the Steadicam