Triggering a ramp during recording-How?

[Nick Gardner]

If you shoot everything slow motion, and then speed up the parts you want normal, the whole thing is shot at a low shutter angle (or high speed, whatever you want to call it). So all your normal speed shots look like they were shot with a 45 degree shutter, which is seldom desirable.

Nick

 

[hunterrichards]

Come on over!

 

[Chris Stout]

>>>So all your normal speed shots look like they were shot with a 45 degree shutter, which is seldom desirable.

Ahhhh, but of course! Thanks!

 

[Dyslexicon]

Even with Pixel Motion (or pixel flow, or whatever your software vendor calls their technology) in post, you're still interpolating frames. Basically, your computer is guessing where things will be from one frame to the next. It won't always get it right, sometimes it'll work really well, (Shake's retiming is pretty solid) but it's still not perfect.

Additionally, and I think someone already mentioned this, you end up with (often) a different shutter speed than you'd like during your "sync" (24 fps) shots, which will make things seem jumpier than they otherwise would.

Also getting it in post doesn't give you the awesome buzz of ramping on set, while moving your camera, pulling focus, and in general being a kick#ss Camera God, which is guaranteed to impress the ladies, and more importantly, your director/producer/client...:shiftyph34r:

 

[hunterrichards]

Definately, Ramping during production is more of a rush than ramping in post.

 

[Jarred Land]

P.s. I'm not sticking a paper clip in my Red until I see someone else do it first.

words to live by...

 

[Dominic Jones]

So, all we need is a cable that has a non-locking push-to-make switch at one end that shorts pins 1 + 2 on the GPI input - is that a definite?

Also, what is the connector part number for the GPI port LEMO connector? Looks from a search on the LEMO site as if it's probably a FGG.00.304.CLAD35, but it would be good to get that confirmed by someone at Red.

I'll definitely be knocking on of these up - very useful bit of kit...

 

[Tuomas Viitakoski]

But

But

So, all we need is a cable that has a non-locking push-to-make switch at one end that shorts pins 1 + 2 on the GPI input - is that a definite?

Also, what is the connector part number for the GPI port LEMO connector? Looks from a search on the LEMO site as if it's probably a FGG.00.304.CLAD35, but it would be good to get that confirmed by someone at Red.

I'll definitely be knocking on of these up - very useful bit of kit...

I've made few of those Remote start devices (with non-locking connectors) and the only problem is that the ramp doesn't go off - so it's have to be stopped from a rec-button.

 

[Joachim Nilsen]

I know this is an old thread, and everybody has probably figured this all out by now, however, for future reference -

Set the ramp to On-Event (as opposed to On-Record)
And then set one of the user keys to ramp (this is buried in the preferences menu somewhere), I like to use user key five - the I/O button on the top of the monitor.

This procedure makes whatever user key you specified into a trigger-button (It's _very_ difficult to time the ramp perfectly, so you better get some practice before attempting to do it on a job)