mark morgan

the "scarlet" by RED has a nice price point

when it comes out 3k for 3k

sounds good to me

that sounds great charles

can't wait to hear the results

aloha gents

just thinking if there was a tv truck,flypac or video village more than

100 to 500 feet away from set

would it be possible to run the receiver up hi or wherever it may work,

thats out of the way from other interference which could cause problems.

Would it be possible to run an sdi cable from the receiver to the truck,flypac

or even video village and still get the same results

with a clean picture and no latency

not sure if this has been tried out or not,

reason i ask is i haven't heard anything about this type of set up.

But do you think it is possible

MARK "i am by no means an RF expert" MORGAN

Just curious why you would run both the onboard and your own monitor? For focus? The AC on this gig has been trying to get me to let him mount the RED monitor on the camera for him.

hey afton

i leave the monitor on mostly for the menu settings for the DIT,the monitor has this kool focus band for the ac,who uses it to get things started,the hystogram and other levels are easily checked as well

since i don't have a downconverter it also lets the director have a look and its good for playback

oh! and that was the happy medium i agreed upon,so they don't get the camera body handle

and i definetly respect you for sticking to your guns,that is a long ass rig your flyin,way to go

Afton - and others: are you guys buying these downconverters yourselves? Or is it something that you can reasonably ask the production to get in for you?

 

Just wondering whether I have to add another £1000 bit of equipment to my shopping list...

 

Just had a phone conversation with Alec Jarnagin and we touched on this exact subject. As of right now, I have not needed to own my own downconverter. Production has always been responsible for renting one. As the HD world grows stronger, and with advances in technology like this affordable [relatively speaking] HD transmitter that was just released, the responsibility will start to shift to the owner/operator to keep their equipment up to date with the rest of the equipment on set. This will mean either updating all your gear to be HD compatible, or buying equipment like a downconverter that will work with your current equipment. There are so many other departments that operate and rely upon SD signals, however, I do think we've got some time before that inevitability happens. And while we're waiting, who knows what new technology might be released?

ALOHA AFTON

I HAVE PUT SOME VERY SMALL WASHERS ON THE SHOULDER MOUNT RIGHT INSIDE THE LITTLE WHITE PLASTIC AREA

AND THAT HAS TAKEN OUT A GOOD BIT OF THE LOOSNESS NOT 100% BUT DEFINETLY NOTICEABLE, I HAVEN'T HAD ANY PROBLEMS WITH THE HARD DRIVE,BUT I HAVENT HAD THE LONG GLASS THAT YOU ARE WORKING WITH AT HE PRESENT,NOW BUILD 15 LETS YOU DO BOTH THE ONBOARD MONITOR AND MY HD,SDI MONITOR WORK AT THE SAME TIME,I HAD A POWER CABLE MADE TO USE THE BATTERIES AT THE BOTTOM OF THE SLED WHICH I LOVE THAT HAS HELPED WITH IT BEING LONG AND TOP HEAVY

Aloha back Mark,

 

Yes, both transmitter and receiver have 4 pin XLR 10-17v DC input.

 

Here's a site that has all the specs:

 

http://www.zotzdigital.com/item.php?pid=20...943b6c1a527f6d4

thanks charles

that is very kool

aloha charles

thanks for the detailed report,it sounds like a great tool,

is it possible to power the unit without the battery attached to it

i guess i am asking if we can power it thru the sled

best regards

mark morgan

wow, that's pretty snazzy! so the extreme controler setup you used beggs the question, how many different types of controlers are there? and, could you just make your own custom set up and plug it in to all the existing cranes (probably not as there are too many variations of pin config).....

hey mike

i'm pretty sure it depends on the manufacturer of the head

not so much the crane itself

Aloha Mark,

 

I almost always boom up or down if it is a quick repo. If I have a second I will use my fancy motorized top stage to trim for an effortless tilt. Of course your more primitive Sachtler probably doesn't have this feature so you can only dream about such precision. :P

 

 

Torch

hey buddy

hope all is well,yes i am jealous of your fancy trim

for that full taste tilt,but i'm sure you'll be happy to hear the news

they lifted the band on same sex marriage in your state!!!!!! LOL

hehe thats gross

i do this by the feel of the shot

when to boom the arm or tilt the sled,

looking for some other opinions on this subject

camera operators are usually very artistic individuals

so i would like to hear

some of you guys other thoughts on this subject

thanks

Very excellent. By far the C-Motion unit is my favorite with the exception of a few things. What frequency is the system using?

According to their website, it uses a 2.4 gHz frequency

so does this mean this fequency is going to mess with some wireless video signals

i dont know but there were some great fights! GSP FTW!!!

hey mike

great stuff from gsp,and both showed alot of class afterwards,real pros

and once again solid job by the steadicam op

yeah and i wish they would have shown the ed herman fight,best submission for the night

just wondering who did steadicam on the ufc 83 in canada

he did a great job with all the people around reaching in and all that

as they were trying to get on the tube

And another one:

i gotta a few

check out the sachtler "artemis" monitor bracket as well

it has the dual rods,monitor plate that does both the tb-6 style monitor

and the lcd style monitor,easy to flip for low mode

you can pan and tilt the monitor

and be able to raise or lower the rods(up and down)

slide them fowards and backwards to your liking

just some more options for DB and lets you be able to

move the weight higher or lower on your rig

depending on if you want your post longer or shorter for different applications

mark "just my experiences" morgan

thank you everybody

to the positive responce

i'm smilin

mahalo

aloha gents

i have a varicam shoot coming up

and i spoke with the dp,he mentioned a few low mode shots

but with very little turn around time

so my question is,does the varicam do image flip

when turned upside down or via menu

mahalo

Thanks guys. The Transvideo looks to be about half a pound, so that's OK. I'll see if we can rent one of those (or if someone has one they rent to us, let me know).

aloha charles

i gotta transvideo frameline generator that i'm not using

if your still looking to get one,i will make this one available

contact me by email:kalohe714@yahoo.com

best at ya

Anyway, my question is this;

anyone had any bad experience with the RED camera plate yet? Or is it all good?

LE

aloha lars

i have flown the red over a dozen times now

and i have experienced no problems

have fun fly red

Yeah, this power thing with RED needs to be sorted out. I've heard lots of ghost stories but no concrete explanations. This has inspired me to put up a thread at Reduser about this. If I want to power the camera off my rig for lightweight work, I need to know why this isn't possible or if it is just superstition.

aloha charles

i got a red power cable built last week by jeroen lexmond

i got ahold him on saturday (jeroen@lexmond.com)

had the cable by tuesday,could have been sooner

if it had been a super rush,and my hat is off to jeroen

very nice craftsmanship and he made the cable red for me

very kool (red peeps should be stoked)

but main thing i had no problems powering thru my sled

so i was able to keep the red storage up top in the carriage

worked on and off from 9a to 9p and no down time downloading cards

the camera flew very nice and i had a great time

so at this point i am claiming superstition

and no wobbles that from the camera plate

which had been mentioned in another post

Heard some issues about a wobbly baseplate coming with the production pack especially in cold weather. Can you second that?

hell i wobble in the cold thats why i live here in hawaii

now on a real note,i haven't had any problems with wobble

but now i'm curious,i have a shoot with red on sunday

i'll check it out even though i am pretty sure

i would have noticed this in the pass

keep chillin

Mark,

 

"and i use the hd/sdi output from the red thru my post

to the monitor no problem,beautiful pictures"

 

What sled are you using? Curious about the wiring. Thanks.

alec

i am using the "artemis" efp pro hd,sdi sled

I am seeking for someone flying a Red One on his sled already. Since the camera does not have analogue outputs I thought the signal must be converted to composite somehow. I talked to a tech today and he told me tht there were severe problems converting the signal through a Aja converter. It only produced a b/w picture and he thought the SDI signal of the camera was not clean. As far as I know the Red has two 1080 outputs. So anyone had the chance to give it a try using an "analogue" signal chain to the monitor?

 

Thanks

 

Markus

aloha markus

best bet is to get ahold of a monitor that excepts an sdi signal

i have flown the red a number of times now

and i use the hd/sdi output from the red thru my post

to the monitor no problem,beautiful pictures

i actually think that my monitor looks better than

the stock red lcd monitor,but just my opinion

have fun

He makes it all look easy . . . .still don't know why a show like that won't use the Link wireless system . . .?

aloha rob

just a small question i have a beauty pagent coming up

and they want to use wireless,does the link system work with sd

and does have a delay,someone once told me it only does hd

which i find hard to beleive

thanks

just wondering who might be building the red one power cables

 

thanks

 

Dear Mark,

 

Check out Jeroen Hendriks at Lexmond Inc. - not only is the best cable maker I've ever used, but he was recently under contract to RED, so he will know what you need. He can be reached at (818) 384-4323 or jeroen@lexmond.com

 

Good luck.

right on and thank you so much simon

i'll give him a call tomorrow

best regards