Audio for Red One camera

[bradvr]

We hosted the demo with Crew and Rob and I wanted to chime in here with some details about using the RED camera, specifically our cameras - #15 "Ripley" and #16 "Connor".

As Crew said, our cameras just came off a feature and they have early firmware (1.3.3 I think) so some features vary from other cameras.

The boot up time for the RED is 70 seconds. this is from a cold start - AC or Battery.

It takes 3 to 5 seconds to change media and 3 to 5 seconds to format the media (if needed).

Red batteries last us 90 minutes of on time. This does not appear to vary if the camera is recording or just on. We are very pleased with battery life. When in hand held mode we power accessories  (except for 3rd party monitors) from on-board batteries using a D-Tap and a power splitter. For tripod shooting, we power all of our accessories and monitors from another source - a battery block or Anton Bauer hytrons.

The common media available today is an 8GB UDMA 300X Compact Flash card which can hold 4:15 of footage at 4K, and more then twice that at 2K. Hard drives are not available yet. We treat the CF cards like film and have enough cards on set to get us through a busy day of shooting and never have to wait for cards to be "dumped". In our work flow we transfer the cards to hard drive raids to create on set masters and backups. Typically this workflow on a feature requires 20 to 25 cards per day, per camera.

No audio is enabled in the camera, and all of our shoots to date have been double system.

Time code JAM is supported, and has a constant one frame offset from the Deneke time code slate read out. However, note that we have had NO problem syncing audio in post and any offsets are constant. ---> This just in: release notes from a firmware released today include the comment "improves time code accuracy". We are shooting some spots next week and will update you on any improvements in this area.

And finally, multiple outputs have functioned for several weeks but they include only HDSDI and HDMI simultaneously. New Beta firmware now enables simultaneous outputs from EVF (viewfinder), HDSDI and RE LCD - very cool.

We have been very pleased with the performance of the RED cameras and feel that RED is an important step in bringing film quality production to the digital age.

Brad