Zsigmond James
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Considering that the SR-R1 is compatible with both the F35 and F65 - Has anyone tried The SR-R4 on the F35? Any success in getting the F35 to communicate with the SR-R4?
SR-R4 And SR-R1 F35 compatibility?
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David W. Jones
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The SSR4 uses a direct couple interface while the SSR1 uses an HD-SDI input.
Viddovation
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The SR-R4 wouldn't be practical to adapt to the F35. It has a dock connection for the F65, and it isn't compatible with the F35 dock. So you'd have create some sort of interlinking dock to stack between the two to convert between the communication protocols.
Given that F35 can't take advantage of the SR-R4 4k and raw capabilities there's no practical reason to develop for the SR-R4 instead of the SR-R1.
A few years back I created a prototype interlink between the F35 and the SR-R1. The SR-R1 doesn't have a docking mount, but it does have a remote VTR control serial port. I reverse engineered the F35 dock protocol, and interfaced it to the SR-R1 VTR port. They are not compatible protocols, so I had a PIC32 processor board with custom code translating in real time between the two devices.
That said, if I were developing a project today around the F35, I would take a very different approach. I would be looking into the practicality of using the new Hyperdeck Studio Mini - its size would fit neatly on the back of the camera, and it has a built in verification monitor, and it records to SD cards which are very easy to work with. For power, the HyperDeck Studio Mini can take power over ethernet, which could be supplied by an injector. For interlinking, the Mini has well documented protocols available over ethernet. As for interlinking with the F35 dock, that would pose some challenges, but could be done. The benefits might not be worth it though. Oh - the Mini wouldn't take the dual link sdi input, but you could put a converter in the middle.
Given that F35 can't take advantage of the SR-R4 4k and raw capabilities there's no practical reason to develop for the SR-R4 instead of the SR-R1.
A few years back I created a prototype interlink between the F35 and the SR-R1. The SR-R1 doesn't have a docking mount, but it does have a remote VTR control serial port. I reverse engineered the F35 dock protocol, and interfaced it to the SR-R1 VTR port. They are not compatible protocols, so I had a PIC32 processor board with custom code translating in real time between the two devices.
That said, if I were developing a project today around the F35, I would take a very different approach. I would be looking into the practicality of using the new Hyperdeck Studio Mini - its size would fit neatly on the back of the camera, and it has a built in verification monitor, and it records to SD cards which are very easy to work with. For power, the HyperDeck Studio Mini can take power over ethernet, which could be supplied by an injector. For interlinking, the Mini has well documented protocols available over ethernet. As for interlinking with the F35 dock, that would pose some challenges, but could be done. The benefits might not be worth it though. Oh - the Mini wouldn't take the dual link sdi input, but you could put a converter in the middle.