Odyssey7Q February 2014 Firmware Update

Hey that's me.

Glad Mitch was able to respond. Fingers crossed that it will release soon. I was just notified that myself and a teammate were selected for a film challenge on the island of Dominica. Flying out in a couple weeks. Would really love to have some extra recording options!
 
I'm still a little confused on what the new FW will give us... besides prores for HD.

The 4k will only be raw? Or will we have 4k Prores? They were originally going to do their own 4k method, what happened to that?
 
also, calling 24/7 support number on their website gets a non setup mailbox message.

*dan promptly called back and was extremely helpful
 
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Hi guys,

Sorry, I have been travelling between NY & LA so a bit remiss about spending time on this forum. I see my Tweet was reposted here.


On the firmware update:

We have been told by the company that owns the IP on the popular codec that our work is fully technically approved. Now we must wait for legal paperwork to be concluded. Again, we really thought this would all have been completed by now.

There is much to this firmware update, including some small functions that were not originally listed at the start of this thread. We get done what we can, test it and include it if possible.

We keep hearing "any day now" and as soon as we can release it, believe me y'all will be the first to know.


On deliveries to Europe:

We ship out deliveries to Symbiosis, our European distributor, on a regular basis. As noted previously, they distribute to the official dealers on a first-come basis, meaning they send the units out in the order that they received orders from these dealers. I don't know what their waitlist queue looks like, but if your dealer waited too long to place an order with the distributor then there may still be people in front of you.

If we froze all orders as of today, we would fulfill all current Odyssey7Q orders before the end of April. We are catching up.


On Sony L-plate battery plates:

We are terribly behind on this product. Our supplier for the battery mounts is months behind on fulfilling our orders. We have the other parts ready to go and are assured that these parts will be coming in quantity next week. We're talking hundreds of units. In the meantime you can order the Westside AV solution or the Nebtek solution for mounting small batteries.
 
Thanks for the update Mitch. It is disappointing. Let's hope the approval gets completed very soon.

Does this approval cover all future flavours of the CODEC or is approval needed for each I.e. Normal and proxy, 4k etc?

What's the status of the compressed 4K? Have you completed the tweaking you needed to do?

paul.
 
Pgale said:
Thanks for the update Mitch. It is disappointing. Let's hope the approval gets completed very soon.

Does this approval cover all future flavours of the CODEC or is approval needed for each I.e. Normal and proxy, 4k etc?

What's the status of the compressed 4K? Have you completed the tweaking you needed to do?

paul.
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Some variations require separate certification, some do not.

The compressed 4K is not what is being tweaked. It is the 4K RAW converted to high quality HD. There was a nice breakthrough with that recently, yes. I don't want to give away what is the intellectual property of our company, but I will say that the engineer who came up with a novel solution to this processing should receive an award for lateral thinking. It's no easy trick to get a downconverted image that is high resolving without aliasing, and rich in color information without color fringing. You guys are gonna like what you see.
 
Oh yes my mistake. I remember now that it was the super sampled HD.

That sounds really good. Is this now going to make this firmware update?

cheers.
 
Mitch Gross said:
It's no easy trick to get a downconverted image that is high resolving without aliasing, and rich in color information without color fringing. You guys are gonna like what you see.
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Wow, I like hearing that - no aliasing or moire? Give that person a big raise for that.

So Mitch, you are saying that company "A" has fully approved the technical process and certified the codec but we have to just wait for them to finish the legal paper work? Or is it CD that needs to finish the paper work? Or both ends? If it's CD paper work, then I would think that it would be quick; but for company "A," it might take a while since they're a giant corporation.

Well "Technically approved" are probably the golden words, so God speed on the rest my friend. God speed.....
 
Realistically, the firmware should be here in under two weeks, right? While I'd love compressed 4K, I'd settle for ProRes 1080p at this point. I'd just love to get the best I can get out of the FS700 on this island trip, without needing to bring along rackmount of drives and offloading multiple times a day.
 
Mitch Gross said:
We are told that we are technically approved and awaiting their paperwork.
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Thanks for keeping us updated Mitch, it's really appreciated. We're all definitely looking forward to the 4k->1080p option. Your recent description makes it pretty appealing.
 
Mitch Gross said:
We are told that we are technically approved and awaiting their paperwork.
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Thanks for all the effort and keeping the info flowing, it's much appreciated. Looking forward to all the new features as soon as they're released. Hopefully that should be the worst of the issues with the codec that cannot be named out of the way. Fingers crossed for DNxHD soon too.
 
Mitch, maybe not the right thread to ask, but will the prores codecs correctly handle 109%?
It was an issue with pix240 but they fixed it (also cinedeck, but they didn't fix it)

Actually, it seems to be more a problem with 444 flavour of Prores, literally cuts super whites at 100%
 
Sorry for the question that's probably been asked a zillion times but...Can you record to the standard SDHC card AND the 7Q at the same time?
 
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