Convergent Design: Looking Forward & Moving Ahead

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Mitch Gross

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(March 5, 2015, Colorado Springs) 2014 was a record-setting year for Convergent Design. The Odyssey7Q began shipping in October of 2013 and quickly became the monitor/recorder of choice throughout the industry. In mid 2014 the lower-cost Odyssey7 began shipping, immediately establishing itself as the premier HD video monitor/recorder. At the close of 2014, the Odyssey7Q+ debuted, setting a new benchmark as the “go-to” 4K monitor/recorder.


The growth and success of the Odyssey Family of Products is reflected throughout Convergent Design. The company doubled its staff, moved to a new purpose-built facility that is greater than twice the size of its previous space, and increased revenues more than fourfold over the previous year.


And we are not ones to rest on our laurels. In 2014 the Odyssey product line enjoyed six firmware updates. Convergent Design plans to continue improving and expanding our products through free firmware updates with the same aggressive pace and the same high level of performance, and to offer surprise features that outpace and leapfrog anything in the industry. Convergent Design will not be surprising the industry with unexpected new products at NAB this year. Instead we are dedicated to the continuing development of the Odyssey product line as the most full-featured, most versatile, most powerful and most reliable monitor/recorders in the world.


Below is out forecast for firmware updates for the next few months. The features listed are only a taste of what will be in each update. We expect to offer a variety of new features and improvements on current ones. And we plan to surprise you with functions unlike anything being offered by anyone else. The March Firmware Update is ready to launch and awaits certification for the new recording formats. And there are several surprises in this firmware release.


Please note that the Odyssey firmware updates apply to the Odyssey7, Odyssey7Q, and Odyssey7Q+ as appropriate to the capacities of each device. It is the expressed intent of Convergent Design to support our products and clients long term.


March Firmware Update
Additional compressed video recording formats
Improved image processing for both FS7 & FS700 (FS RAW Record Option)


April Firmware Update
Programmable custom 3D-LUTs with LUT routing to tools & outputs
Improved monitoring functions and tools


May Firmware Update
Additional monitoring/recording features
High frame rate compressed recording for FS7 & FS700 (FS RAW Record Option)
New Record Option


June Firmware Update
Additional compressed video recording formats
New Record Option
 
Very nice, looking forward to all the new features and fixes.

Any updates on what HFR compressed framerates we can expect? Any details on the upcoming image processing improvements?

I'm just gonna guess one of the new record options is going to be AJA Cion RAW...

Fingers crossed for firmwares early in the month since I have a job that could really use some of those LUT features in mid April...
 
Hope to see these in coming updates
1.more color choice on IRE between blue and green (atomos having a lot of choice, which i would like to see on this recorder too, user can disable some color themselves too if they dont need that much)
2.can save custom IRE into preset for easier changing between diff camera/video profile use.
3.include vectorscope feature if possible
4.can plug keyboard into usb port for easier typing for those file name/note
 
Would 4k ProRes at 50/60p be considered as being part of the "High frame rate compressed recording for FS7 & FS700" statement in your roadmap, or are you only referring to HD? Thanks.
 
Well seems like 1080p60 compressed is already possible so the next step up for HFR would be 4k60 and 1080p120, but 4k60 should get us 120fps buffered 4k on the fs700 which I'd be very happy with.
 
I also hope that there will be some improvments in the "workflow" of using a 7Q like:

- Get the thumbnails view back in playback mode
- naming --> like in a audiorecorder where you can automatically let the device run Scenes and takes...not sure
if this is possible, but it would be awsome. Some kind of naming would be essential though


etc.

Cheers
 
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Chris Johnston said:
Also, when I have the ssd's out and am offloading footy, I'd like to be able to toast bread in the ssd slots. (I like toast on set... just sayin)
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The Odyssey doesn't get that hot, that's why it doesn't need vents or a fan. Maybe you should try slapping some bread on the back of the other guy's box. ;-D
 
Pro Res 4K 4:4:4:4 12bit?
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+10
 
Thanks for the update, Mitch. Looking forward to all the surprises. Seems this spring is going to be a fun one.
 
Mitch Gross said:
The Odyssey doesn't get that hot, that's why it doesn't need vents or a fan. Maybe you should try slapping some bread on the back of the other guy's box. ;-D
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My both odyssey 7Q and 7Q+ does get hot very easily even at indoor. Outdoor directly expose to sun will just get overheat in short time.
 
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