Using a RED DRIVE with Epic & Scarlet...

[Jaime Vallés]

I know that supposedly the current RED DRIVE will be usable with the upcoming Epic / Scarlet cameras, but I have a couple of questions:

1) Will it be able to connect directly to the brain? Or is a separate module needed to hook up the RED DRIVE to the Epic or Scarlet brains?

2) Will the current RED DRIVE record 5K? If so, at what frame rates?

These questions are probably premature, but I thought I'd ask anyway. You never know when Jim or Jarred will throw us a bone. :emote_couch:

 

[CJ Roy]

2) Currently you can't use the drives @ 4k 16:9 RC42, so expect very limited options with them used with the Epic.

Hopefully RED will give a little more detail on the new media options.

 

[Mohammed El Sharqawy]

so, an RC250 from will be a real pain to record.. won't it?

 

[Casey Schendel]

CJ has a good point but also keep in mind if you can shoot 5K at RC36 then you would be able to record it to a drive.

I can't imagine how the hell they will pull off recording RC250

 

[CJ Roy]

5k @ RC36 should be a larger file than 4k RC36, so that's not necessarily guaranteed. I don't believe there's much difference on the Red-Ram's either, but I could be mistaken.

 

[Imran Farouk]

Swear someone once mentioned when EPIC's come the idea of what is currently RC will change, hence RC250 is possible...otherwise I can't imagine our current options being as useful on the next gen...since RC250 would be mad wicked in that case and everyone will want to use it so buy up new offerings...

That's why im pretty sure there was something about RC250 and 36 etc. Not being directly related to their current ideas...maybe wrong in which case..i'm ready to be surprised by the new recording options!

 

[Justin O'Neill]

I know that supposedly the current RED DRIVE will be usable with the upcoming Epic / Scarlet cameras, but I have a couple of questions:

1) Will it be able to connect directly to the brain? Or is a separate module needed to hook up the RED DRIVE to the Epic or Scarlet brains?

From Jarred:

There is a very thin module with a Drive port on it available for people to use existing drives... it's not the standard IO module

 

[CJ Roy]

Interesting. Thanks for posting that Justin. We need to purchase a drive module for existing drives... as much as I hate to have to buy anything else to make something that already works, work, I really like the module idea.

Curious what the new connection is.