January 2016 firmware for Odyssey and Apollo

nyvz said:
Really? Seems like it would be easy to implement in RAW since it's recording separate DNGs anyway. No internal buffer required. The unit would just automatically always be writing DNGs to the next clip folder on the SSD but automatically deleting ones over 30sec (or whatever pre-record interval is set) and stop deleting them as soon as you press record. And then just move on to a new clip folder/number when you cut.
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We don't do that because we do not want to fragment the SSDs. This is why we record onto the SSD but when it comes time to delete we need to reformat the whole drive and start fresh. Otherwise the SSD drive space can get sectored and fragmented and then performance quickly begins to suffer. We never want to get in danger of skipping a frame so we just won't do it. The only way to have a pre-record buffer is to do so in a memory buffer before writing to the SSD. All recorder systems do it this way. We could allocate some memory space for this but functionally it wouldn't be very useful, especially in 4K -- maybe only a second or two. And giving space to this means we have to give up space for some of the other useful stuff we've packed into the device.
 
nyvz said:
How is it possible we still don't have recording LUTs?? I and a lot of others have been asking for this since the beginning and it seems like probably a relatively easy feature to implement. I just did a job where this ended up being required by the client's request and it was very frustrating to have to figure out a sketchy system of running the 7Q LUTed monitor output through another sketchier recorder on set and delivering the files from that recorder. It just seems ridiculous this isn't an option and is one of the only features left that makes me consider selling my whole FS700+7Q rig for an FS7 or Scarlet-W or another camera that will let me bake in a LUT... Sometimes I need to be able to hand over an image that looks the way we want. I've had several jobs in a row where I used great 7Q monitoring LUTs and shot SLOG2 and provided the LUTs on the drives with the footage along with instructions etc and the final product clearly ended up being some crappy grade an editor did directly on the SLOG2 without touching my provided LUT. It's very frustrating not having the option to deliver images that I know look the way I want. I want to be able to choose my look on set for jobs where I am not involved past principal photography for whatever reason and know that even if they do nothing to the images in post it will look at least the way I saw on set.
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Noah, I hear you and I have requested that we move this up on our priority list. We have many projects and tasks and these decisions are quite fluid.
 
Using the 7Q+ as a monitor when filming some live performance shows this week, I came up with a feature request:
ability to move the waveform display. Or is this already possible?
 
Not sure if this has been covered elsewhere in your updates before: Does this new firmware add support for the new 850 PRO 2TB (MZ-7KE2T0BW) ?
 
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