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Aaron Newsome
October 23rd, 2009, 09:26 PM
You would be doing your RED camera a disservice if you recorded the non-REDCODE data anyway. Yes it does high frame rates, but it also has a recorder to record the high frame rates. You might use the the CD box for proxies (which really aren't necessary though).

Steve Phillipps
October 24th, 2009, 02:48 AM
I think that RED does 1080p50/60.
rafael

It theoretically does 1080P/120, but only in 2k mode where after de-bayering the resolution and image quality are likely to be a bit suspect. Haven't seen it for myself though.
Steve

Rafael Amador
October 24th, 2009, 03:52 AM
Hi Rafael:
At this point the red is out of my price range. Maybe to rent on one day ?
Hi Mark,
Standard cameras won't offer 1080p60 because is not any standard.
Capture and play would be a problem too.
rafael

After writing this I saw the the KONA 3 can record 1080p60.

Paul Cronin
October 24th, 2009, 07:08 AM
Mark I can save you the time with renting the Red. I owned a Red this past spring just for the 2K 120fps and was very disappointed. At 2K the camera is only using 1/2 of the sensor and the picture quality was not up to the EX1 and the XDR that I owned at the same time. I sold the Red very unhappy in the product.

Mark Job
October 24th, 2009, 08:18 AM
Hi Paul:
Wow ! I'm really surprised to read this sort of feedback about a RED product ! To state a 2K camera didn't look as good as the XDR with a Sony EX-1 is also interesting. Do you think your RED camera was busted ?

Paul Cronin
October 24th, 2009, 09:21 AM
No there was nothing wrong with the Red camera. At full 35mm it was very nice but that was not why I purchased the camera. 1/2 of one CMOS sensor in the Red at 2k is not up to EX with XDR or Nano from the two weeks of test I did in my studio and outside.

Believe me I was not happy taking the loss I took when I sold the camera. I was warned by knowledgeable people on this site and the Red site, but I had to learn for myself. Well lesson learned and you should rent a Red you might find out different then me but I would be surprised.

Mark Job
October 24th, 2009, 10:20 AM
Hi Paul:
Which model of Red camera are we talking about here ?

Steve Phillipps
October 24th, 2009, 10:39 AM
There is only 1 RED at present, the RED One. The others are very much in dreamspace still!
I have heard the same thing about 2k from the RED. Apparently 3k looks OK though, going up to 60fps or so.
Steve

Mark Job
October 24th, 2009, 11:35 AM
Hi Steve:
I went to the RED website and they show all these different kind of camera kits - heads-packs. Are you saying this stuff actually isn't available yet ?

Steve Phillipps
October 24th, 2009, 12:41 PM
Yep! The pictures look amazing don't they? But that's all they are.
Steve

Aaron Newsome
October 24th, 2009, 01:27 PM
Mark there is only one RED camera, the RED ONE. The Scarlet and Epic camera announcements will be later this month. Shooting 2K on the RED ONE uses a sensor cropping scheme, not the full sensor. I researched the RED pretty well before buying my Viper. This was one of the things I loved about the Viper, full sensor in all shooting modes except scope, even in scope mode it uses nearly all the sensor.

I don't know of any standard camera that can output a 1080p60 signal. The only camera that I know of that would be able to do that would be an expensive high speed camera.

Mark Job
October 24th, 2009, 01:29 PM
Hi Steve:
I suppose there is not enough investment going into RED Cinema to complete the R & D on their new stuff. I'm in the same position with my SD Card based Solid State Digital Recorder :-( I am glad we didn't publish any pictures on the Internet of our new box design yet.

Steve Phillipps
October 24th, 2009, 01:35 PM
I don't know of any standard camera that can output a 1080p60 signal. The only camera that I know of that would be able to do that would be an expensive high speed camera.

The Sony F23 will do it and so will the new SRW9000 camcorder, recording to HDCam SR. Lot of money though, and a big bit of kit to lug around the hills!
Steve

Daniel Symmes
October 24th, 2009, 01:55 PM
If you can afford a 9000 you don't worry about compression.

Dan Keaton
October 24th, 2009, 02:00 PM
Dear Friends,

When the Sony SRW-9000 was first shown to the public, at NAB 2009, the nanoFlash was attached to the side of the camera.

We had been working with Sony for some time before the announcment. They made a very nice bracket so that nanoFlash becomes a nice attachment.

The nanoFlash is a recommended accessory for the SRW-9000. It is for recording proxies.

But, of course, we know it can be used for recording high quality images, but HDCam SR offers 4:4:4 and we do not.

Mark Job
October 24th, 2009, 02:14 PM
Hi Dan:
The HDCAM SR Camcorder also records and outputs in 4:2:2. Once the XDR is uncompressed and 10 bit, then it will also be capable of online capture from the HDCAM SR Camera output as a Recorder alternative.

Steve Phillipps
October 24th, 2009, 02:40 PM
But as we've already heard the Flash won't be able to record the 1080/60P that the camera can also output and record to 422 HDCam SR.
Steve

Paul Cronin
October 24th, 2009, 02:41 PM
Mark my Red One was 005721 purchased in Jan 09. The rest of the cameras are hype for now. I would suggest sticking with 2/3" broadcast HD camera with either the Nano or XDR. They are a proven system that pay the bills and keep the clients happy.

Aaron Newsome
October 24th, 2009, 02:54 PM
I know the F23 camera. I wasn't aware that it output a 1080p60. I don't know the SRW-9000 camera. I'll Google it.

Steve Phillipps
October 24th, 2009, 03:37 PM
It needs HKSR-102 and 103 cards and then does 1080/60P into the SRW-1 dockable recorder.
DisneyNature are using it for a couple of wildlife features in Africa along with a Phantom HD as reported here http://www.sony.co.uk/res/attachment/file/44/1223895735044.pdf.
Steve

Mark Job
October 24th, 2009, 10:00 PM
But as we've already heard the Flash won't be able to record the 1080/60P that the camera can also output and record to 422 HDCam SR.
Steve...Hi Steve: True. However regular speed shooting like that in a feature film would be perfectly acceptable to an XDR. EDIT: You could drop down to 720p 60 on the SRW 9000, then output your 60p in that format and intercut that slow mo into a 1080 timeline. Perhaps it could be matched to the 1080 ??

Mark Job
October 25th, 2009, 06:36 PM
Dear Friends,

When the Sony SRW-9000 was first shown to the public, at NAB 2009, the nanoFlash was attached to the side of the camera.

We had been working with Sony for some time before the announcment. They made a very nice bracket so that nanoFlash becomes a nice attachment.

The nanoFlash is a recommended accessory for the SRW-9000. It is for recording proxies.

But, of course, we know it can be used for recording high quality images, but HDCam SR offers 4:4:4 and we do not....I watched the video with the English man in charge of engineering at Sony on the SRW 9000 project introduce the camera. We can clearly see there is a Nano Flash attached to he side of this wonderful camera. I can't quite see exactly how Sony has attached the Nano in this video. Can you post some pictures of this setup which shows the detail of how the Nano is attached ?

Mark Job
October 25th, 2009, 06:41 PM
Mark there is only one RED camera, the RED ONE. The Scarlet and Epic camera announcements will be later this month. Shooting 2K on the RED ONE uses a sensor cropping scheme, not the full sensor. I researched the RED pretty well before buying my Viper. This was one of the things I loved about the Viper, full sensor in all shooting modes except scope, even in scope mode it uses nearly all the sensor.

I don't know of any standard camera that can output a 1080p60 signal. The only camera that I know of that would be able to do that would be an expensive high speed camera....Hi Aaron. Does your Viper do slow mo and if so how fast can it go ?

Dan Keaton
October 25th, 2009, 06:46 PM
Dear Mark,

I searched for a photo of the nanoFlash mounted on the SRW-9000. I could not find one.

Sony built a custom bracket for the SRW-9000, using drawings we provided them prior to NAB. We did not build the bracket.

Mark Job
October 25th, 2009, 06:51 PM
Hi Dan:
OK. Well thanks for trying to get something up. Dan, how much does the basic SRW 9000 camera package cost ?

Mike Schell
October 25th, 2009, 07:44 PM
Hi Dan:
OK. Well thanks for trying to get something up. Dan, how much does the basic SRW 9000 camera package cost ?

Hi Mark-
It's one of those questions in the catagory: "If you have to ask how much..."

See photo below.

Cheers-

Aaron Newsome
October 25th, 2009, 08:11 PM
...Hi Aaron. Does your Viper do slow mo and if so how fast can it go ?

Yes, it uses the full sensor to do 720p60.

Mark Job
October 26th, 2009, 09:36 AM
Hi Mark-
It's one of those questions in the catagory: "If you have to ask how much..."

See photo below.

Cheers-...Yup.......

Steve Phillipps
October 26th, 2009, 01:20 PM
I think the SRW9000 is around £90,000 or so, but you then need extra boards to do things like 1080/60P and dual link out.
Steve

Mark Job
October 26th, 2009, 01:37 PM
Hi Steve:
90,000.00 British Pounds = $ 154,735 Canadian Dollars. Cool. Where do I send the check ? I bet this is special order in Montreal ;-)

Paul Steinberg
October 26th, 2009, 01:39 PM
I shot a commercial with the F35/SRW-1 last week. My understanding is that the SRW-9000 is a camcorder version of the F23/SRW1 without the wide gamut prism. When overcranking the SRW-1 you set a base frame rate (25Pfs) and then a shooting rate (50Pfs). When shooting 50Pfs overcrank on the F35 the HDSDI outputs displayed 25Pfs. Only when the VTR was rebooted to 23.98Pfs did the footage play back in slow-motion (incidentally, it didn't seem like there was any timecode coming down the HDSDI outputs of the camera and there are no video outputs available from the VTR while it's docked to the camera). Without having a SRW-9000 to test on (all the option boards will be around 6 months behind the release of the SRW-9000), my guess is that it too will be sending 25Pfs down the HDSDI pipe while overcranked. No need to try an overcrank the Nano for use with that camera, there is likely nothing for it to sync to at that speed.

But that's just my best guess.

Mark Job
October 26th, 2009, 01:47 PM
Hi Paul:
I'm sure the SRW 9000 will have a 3G capable HD-SDI (Single) output for the XDR/Nano to clock to. At least at this price I would be surprised if Sony would not put at least one 3G capable HD-SDI output on this camcorder. (But maybe not ??) Obviously, the XDR/nano cannot clock to an HD-SDI capable output while it's in the 4:4:4 3G mode, but all should be well if the single HD-SDI output is running at 4:2:2 10 bit signal spec.

Steve Phillipps
October 26th, 2009, 03:02 PM
Yes, but as Dan has said, it won't be able to record 1080/60P.

Steve