Time Lapse? Is it coming?

[Jay Silver]

Just wondering if anyone out there has heard if there will be a time lapse feature added to any of the next builds.
It would be great to be able to do some long exposures and some true long time lapses.

 

[Nick Morrison]

+1

Totally agree. The total blend of motion and still camera hasn't QUITE happened yet. Super long exposures would be great.

 

[Andrew Walker]

I don't know why a timelapse feature has been put on the back burner for so long on Epic. But its something that needs to be dealt with.

 

[PatrickW]

I wish Red had a kickstarter system for feature requests.

Chip a few dollars into the bucket and vote with my wallet to show Red what needs to be a priority.

 

[Ivan G]

Please Red we need this feature. Especially pre-cache recording while you're at it. I miss my Red 1

 

[TheBied]

I wish Red had a kickstarter system for feature requests.

Chip a few dollars into the bucket and vote with my wallet to show Red what needs to be a priority.

We wish we had that too...

But even without the kickstarter project, time-lapse is on the radar for upcoming features.

 

[Mike 'Fireman' Ross]

We wish we had that too...

But even without the kickstarter project, time-lapse is on the radar for upcoming features.

Time-lapse is cool, but can be done with an external intervalometer if needed. Pre-roll would be much appreciated. But why aren't long exposures in there already? That was a complete 'what? duh?' moment for me when I realized I couldn't set 1/4 or 8s or whatever on my EPIC. It seems trivial, but there must be a reason it isn't there already... what is it? Issues with non-linear response and calibrating the sensor for longer exposures?

Mike

 

[TheBied]

Time-lapse is cool, but can be done with an external intervalometer if needed. Pre-roll would be much appreciated. But why aren't long exposures in there already? That was a complete 'what? duh?' moment for me when I realized I couldn't set 1/4 or 8s or whatever on my EPIC. It seems trivial, but there must be a reason it isn't there already... what is it? Issues with non-linear response and calibrating the sensor for longer exposures?

Mike

Pre-record will be coming at the same time as time-lapse along with a few other goodies people have been asking for.

As far as longer exposure go, we're still working on it. In order to make the longer exposures useful you do need to calibrate the camera when using them. Remember, R1 is limited to 1s max as well. If anything longer than 1s is doable and usable it will make it into a build eventually.

 

[Thomas Pohl]

Pre-record will be coming at the same time as time-lapse along with a few other goodies people have been asking for.

As far as longer exposure go, we're still working on it. In order to make the longer exposures useful you do need to calibrate the camera when using them. Remember, R1 is limited to 1s max as well. If anything longer than 1s is doable and usable it will make it into a build eventually.

Good to hear. By the way: Do you still have the audio playback on the list? That's a real lack at the moment.

Thomas.

 

[TheBied]

Good to hear. By the way: Do you still have the audio playback on the list? That's a real lack at the moment.

Thomas.

Audio playback via brain audio, hd-sdi, hdmi and pro-io is coming in 3.3.x which will be released as beta once it goes through a little more testing internally.

 

[Brice Ansel]

In order to make the longer exposures useful you do need to calibrate the camera when using them. Remember, R1 is limited to 1s max as well. If anything longer than 1s is doable and usable it will make it into a build eventually.

I hope it is doable!
Regards
B.

 

[Daniel Crooks]

I am so hanging for 1fps, used all the time on my R1

 

[C.H.Haskell]

+1 timelapse and long exposure please! Seems like the stills mode has been abandoned?

 

[Mike Gifford]

Pre-record will be coming at the same time as time-lapse along with a few other goodies people have been asking for.

As far as longer exposure go, we're still working on it. In order to make the longer exposures useful you do need to calibrate the camera when using them. Remember, R1 is limited to 1s max as well. If anything longer than 1s is doable and usable it will make it into a build eventually.

Please bring single frame/timelapse and longer exposure to EPIC and Scarlet as soon as possible!

I work mainly in animation and my RED One is regularly used in locked off and motion control scenarios where live action and animation are mixed.

I am frequently asked when EPIC will have its stills function enabled - If you could start with implementing R1s single frame capabilities, adding longer exposure times in later builds

This is dearly needed now

Cheers

Mike

 

[Brice Ansel]

I don't want to sound pessimistic but by reading again the quote below, I don't like the use of "if" and "eventually"
I can't read any promises on the futur of the longer exposure time in tha Epic
Cross my fingers and hope the red team will find a trick to do it.

As far as longer exposure go, we're still working on it.
Remember, R1 is limited to 1s max as well. If anything longer than 1s is doable and usable it will make it into a build eventually.

 

[Mike 'Fireman' Ross]

Pre-record will be coming at the same time as time-lapse along with a few other goodies people have been asking for.

As far as longer exposure go, we're still working on it. In order to make the longer exposures useful you do need to calibrate the camera when using them. Remember, R1 is limited to 1s max as well. If anything longer than 1s is doable and usable it will make it into a build eventually.

Thanks for the informative responses on this thread, seems like you have some goodies in the pipeline!

Long exposures... perhaps you could enlighten me in your copious free time - any CMOS sensor DSLR runs exposures from 1/8000 to 30s out of the box, no issues of 'calibration'. What is RDC doing that's different, that this isn't something you can just turn on? "doable and usable" - Seems I was barking up the right tree, I guess you have to calibrate the sensor and characterize its response curve and noise behaviour at longer exposures before you can get usable results or something along those lines? But... isn't it ALL raw, what comes off the sensor is exactly what we get, it's not like you have to tune jpg processing or something...

If so, couldn't you just turn multi-second exposures on right now, with a huge caveat that it's not calibrated yet, results might suck somewhat, and may need a lot of work in post? There have been a couple of times the EPIC was the only camera I had with me and I simply couldn't get what I needed due to this; I would 1000% prefer to be able to shoot long exposures badly, now, than not to be able to shoot them at all for the foreseeable future.

Mike

 

[Antony M]

Pre-record will be coming at the same time as time-lapse along with a few other goodies people have been asking for.

Hi Matthew,

Can you or anyone else give us an estimate as to how far off this is?

We have been waiting and asking for a long time now, with the only response being yours, quoted here.

 

[Brian F Kobylarz]

Just so we don't miss too many of the finer details, read the overlapping thread:

http://www.reduser.net/forum/showthread.php?80520-Intervelometer

Appreciate RED responding! Thank you sir.

 

[TheBied]

any CMOS sensor DSLR runs exposures from 1/8000 to 30s out of the box

Do other CMOS sensors run at our speeds and frame-rates? We can't lump DSLR's and EPIC/Scarlet into the same category. They are completely different animals.

But... isn't it ALL raw, what comes off the sensor is exactly what we get, it's not like you have to tune jpg processing or something

Everything is REDcode RAW, imagine setting a 1 fps exposure now and recording without properly calibrating the camera. The results are not very good.

couldn't you just turn multi-second exposures on right now, with a huge caveat that it's not calibrated yet, results might suck somewhat, and may need a lot of work in post

Image quality is everything. We can't compromise there.

I didn't mean to dampen hopes with my previous post. We are exploring ways of making this work for you guys. Unfortunately, it's not a switch we can flip to make it happen overnight.

 

[TheBied]

Hi Matthew,

Can you or anyone else give us an estimate as to how far off this is?

We have been waiting and asking for a long time now, with the only response being yours, quoted here.

There are a couple of firmware builds coming out shortly. We have another 3.2 to roll out with some bug-fixes along with our next 3.3 beta build. Time-lapse etc will follow both of these.