Mix and match formats, frame rates on Drives?

[Keith Nealy]

This may have been covered before but...

Can each clip we shoot have its own unique frame rate or format, ie can one clip be 4K raw and the next clip be 2K?

If yes, how is timecode handled across clips?

If the answer is no, then do we have to have separate drives to record different formats and frame rates?

ie, if we are alternating shooting 4k 60fps and 2K 120 fps variations on a scene , do we need different drives for each?

[Jarred Land]

yes :) each clip has its own timecode.

[Keith Nealy]

Thanks Jarred, that's great about the TC but the main question was can we mix and match different format or frame rate clips on the same drive be it REDdrive or flash, etc. or is each drive formatted to handle only one format?

[Jarred Land]

yes indeed.. different format, frame rate, shutter etc. all on the same drive... but there may be some formats that are restricted to individual media. (ie recording to compact flash will be a lower max FPS than to the Red Raid)

[Alex Boothby]

ie recording to compact flash will be a lower max FPS than to the Red Raid

Wow - really? Somehow I thought it would be the other way around. Does that also include the other flash options (Express Card and 1.8" SATA)?

[Alex Boothby]

Sorry Jarred - I'm being dumb... By "Red Raid" do you mean "Red drive", "Red Ram" or "Red Raw Port"?

[Stuart English]

The one thing that you have to maintain within a project is a common timebase for timecode. For example if that is 24.00 fps, it does NOT mean that you cannot shoot at frame rates higher or lower than that, just that the timecode count that we use stripe the media and the playback frame rate are fixed at 24.00 fps.

So you are O.K to mix and match 4K and 2K, but not 24.00 and 23.98 for example.