Jay A. Kelley
07-07-2006, 08:41 AM
You know this was so obvious to me that I never said anything, yet it's a MAJOR feature given RED'S abilities:
Will RED have the ability to downconvert its signal before saving to the storage mediium?
Think about it, this feature would allow you to purchase the lenses you hope to use 5 years from now for a full size sensor, rather than starting with smaller ones and then having to upgrade once through-put increases.
DOF of a 35mm feature, but with only the bandwith of a 1080 production or even a 720 production.
Guys, this is a very big deal.. I brought this up on another thread, but once I realized it's potential I felt it deserved a spot of its own.. I am pretty active on here and I don't ever remember reading anything about this.
The Least Jim should do is create a RED-DC1. Which stands for RED downconverter 1st generation.. As an extra item.. I know I would buy it in a second!
A box that sits between RED ONE and your storage medium.. You set the input coming rez, and compression(4:2:2 or 4:4:4), coming from RED, and then the output rez, compression, coming out of the box. If you wanted to get really ballsy you could even have a 3:2 pull down setting in order to make the various frame rates compatible with a TAPE based recording system
This subject actually brings up a major design question: Do we really want to use less and less of the chip for different resoultions, or to we always want the option to use the full size chip and then have the camra take the data we need based on our chosen resolution? I realize I am not an engineer, but from a common sense standpoint, I could see this being a major hassle from an engineering perspective, but a massive feature from the consumer's perspective.
Jay
Will RED have the ability to downconvert its signal before saving to the storage mediium?
Think about it, this feature would allow you to purchase the lenses you hope to use 5 years from now for a full size sensor, rather than starting with smaller ones and then having to upgrade once through-put increases.
DOF of a 35mm feature, but with only the bandwith of a 1080 production or even a 720 production.
Guys, this is a very big deal.. I brought this up on another thread, but once I realized it's potential I felt it deserved a spot of its own.. I am pretty active on here and I don't ever remember reading anything about this.
The Least Jim should do is create a RED-DC1. Which stands for RED downconverter 1st generation.. As an extra item.. I know I would buy it in a second!
A box that sits between RED ONE and your storage medium.. You set the input coming rez, and compression(4:2:2 or 4:4:4), coming from RED, and then the output rez, compression, coming out of the box. If you wanted to get really ballsy you could even have a 3:2 pull down setting in order to make the various frame rates compatible with a TAPE based recording system
This subject actually brings up a major design question: Do we really want to use less and less of the chip for different resoultions, or to we always want the option to use the full size chip and then have the camra take the data we need based on our chosen resolution? I realize I am not an engineer, but from a common sense standpoint, I could see this being a major hassle from an engineering perspective, but a massive feature from the consumer's perspective.
Jay