Reel number craziness

[Brigham Edgar]

Having problems with two RED's on set where as the Reel numbers are not clicking over as supposed to. For example you can be on Reel(or Mag) 10, change drive and then suddenly it's formatting at 23 or some other crazy number.
Now, either i am having a brain fart and the reason is staring me in the face or there's something else going on here. Can't remember this happening before on any other shoot and i have done quite a lot on RED. They have always just clicked over sequentially. :umm:

[RyanKunkleman]

for some reason the cameras will decide to jump to a certain number untill you pass that number when you go to a new roll.
two options ive found
1.(quickest & easiest) just let the roll number skip and continue on and let your scripty know.
2. just keep changing the number untill you pass the number that it keeps skipping to.
in my experience once you pass the number it keeps skipping to it stops skipping rolls. and every camera has a number that it likes to skip to they are all different.

[Stuart English]

Having problems with two RED's on set where as the Reel numbers are not clicking over as supposed to. For example you can be on Reel(or Mag) 10, change drive and then suddenly it's formatting at 23 or some other crazy number.
Now, either i am having a brain fart and the reason is staring me in the face or there's something else going on here. Can't remember this happening before on any other shoot and i have done quite a lot on RED. They have always just clicked over sequentially. :umm:

What build ? And what media?

[Stacey Spears]

On the subject of reel number, I can't seem to force (reset) it to start at reel n.

e.g. I started with build 16 and shot 66 reels. I installed build 17, reset everything, did my black shading and reel started over. No problem, I tried to set to 67 with no luck. I was able to get it use 67 once, but when I inserted the next CF card, it went back to the lower reel.

The reels are incrementing, just not starting where I want them to start.

I assume I am not setting it correctly.

[Cail Young]

I was able to get it use 67 once, but when I inserted the next CF card, it went back to the lower reel.

You used CHANGE instead of RESET? CHANGE only affects the next-formatted card, leaving the internal counter alone. RESET will change the internal counter to a value you specify.

Bris-vegas, is it possible you're crossing cards between cameras without formatting them? The camera will use whatever reel number the card is labelled with regardless of what the internal counter says.

[Brigham Edgar]

Build 16 and on drives.

It shouldn't matter if i'm using two cameras (which we are) or not i would think, they should tick over at the next format from the camera's internals. Not a big deal just annoying and has caused a couple of confusing incidents on set which is not needed.
They keep their camera id's but it's just the mag numbers going all over the place wherever they feel like.

[Cail Young]

It shouldn't matter if i'm using two cameras (which we are) or not i would think, they should tick over at the next format from the camera's internals.

Are you formatting the drives on a computer before returning to the camera?

[Brigham Edgar]

Are you formatting the drives on a computer before returning to the camera?

Nope, reformatting on the camera as per norm. It's just odd, two cameras doing the same thing on the same specs.

[Drew Suppa]

I'm having this problem on set with a Build 17 camera; we're shooting to drives, and our "B" Camera decides what reel it's shooting, and even sometimes, which camera it thinks it is.

I use the "Change" function and reset the Reel # and then format the drives on-camera. Still, the camera resets itself (I set it as B-Cam, Reel #32 and it decided to be A-Cam, Reel #27, and 6 clibs later, kept on Reel #27 but then caught up to understand it's B-Cam.

Not so good; creating a nightmare for post workflow at the moment.

[Cail Young]

Nope, reformatting on the camera as per norm. It's just odd, two cameras doing the same thing on the same specs.

Try wiping the drives externally before formatting on-camera. Should prevent any reel confusion on the camera's part.

[Cail Young]

I use the "Change" function and reset the Reel # and then format the drives on-camera. Still, the camera resets itself (I set it as B-Cam, Reel #32 and it decided to be A-Cam, Reel #27, and 6 clibs later, kept on Reel #27 but then caught up to understand it's B-Cam.

Read my post above. You need to use RESET to permanently change the reel counter. CHANGE only affects the next formatted drive.

[Drew Suppa]

Read my post above. You need to use RESET to permanently change the reel counter. CHANGE only affects the next formatted drive.

I know this... reread my post real quick and understand that I changed the reel prior to reformatting the drive, where it should do this as well. Still an issue, regardless.