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Got the good news today that I should receive my fp8 early next week. Jack - Do you know if the trim function bugs will be worked out by then, or will I have to wait a little longer?

I, for one, am super excited about this. In the worst case scenario, it will add four physical faders for inputs 7-10 (with autotrim) to my nomad, which would be a very valuable addition for me. It will undoubtedly be able to do much more than that, but just being able to run all 10 analogue inputs (or 11 if you include slate mic) without the vFaders alone is a valuable addition to my nomad rig. How valuable? I guess we'll see when they release the price...

Ha! On the same Scarlet shoot I mentioned, there were complaints about a delay between sound and picture in the monitor. You guessed it - the people complaining never used their comteks! Yet somehow, the delay between the picture reaching the monitor and the sound they heard from their own ears was...wait for it...a SOUND PROBLEM!

Just got off another RED shoot (Scarlet, this time) and I've finally had it. It's not that it's the camera's fault - The problem is that morons can afford to shoot on RED. Obviously RED has some serious shortcomings with sound, but they're cameras - They're not audio recorders. Good productions understand this, but many productions don't. I thought I would share some experiences of when RED problems have become my fault. 1) RED One MX audio error: Not too long ago i worked on a short shot on a RED MX. I had NOTHING to do with the camera - no timecode and no sound to camera. Along the way, the camera started shutting down due to "audio errors." Turns out that the camera was overheating, but somehow it became my problem. 2) RED epic timecode: I worked on a shoot with two brand spankin' new Epics. This was before the epic could even record audio. In the days leading up the the shoot, I was told that it was run and gun and there was just not enough time to slate, but if I jammed TC to the cameras at the beginning of the day everything would be OK. Well, as it turns out, the first shot was nearly 30 minutes off. In retrospect, there should have been SB-3's or SB-T's on the cameras (OR they should have chosen a more job-appropriate camera ), but that's a camera dept issue. When some cameras need a syncbox (RED), and other cameras fail with a syncbox (Alexa), it seems to me that TC into the camera is camera dept issue - I'll supply it, but camera needs to know what to do with it. 3) Scarlet playback: This one is pretty self-explanatory - No camera audio on playback = sound dept's fault (RED is the best camera, after all). The good news is that once I explain these problems most people usually get it. That being said, there is no reason why I should know more about the camera than the CAMERA DEPARTMENT. Anyone else have some stories?

First time poster, here. I happen to have a balloon shoot coming up next week (my first), and found this thread. Awesome info! Glad to be a part of this board. Will