Cf card and Red drive simultaneously?

[Marc Berger]

Hi
Is it possible to record simultaneously on CF card and Red Drive? or will it be possible in the future?
Cheers
Marc

[Brook Willard]

No, it is not possible as of today.

As it stands, I wonder if it will ever be possible. Both the RED DRIVE and the CF module are on an eSATA bus - likely the same bus. I'd imagine that writing to one recording source saturates the bus, so writing to both at once may be an impossibility in the future.

[Paolo Tinari]

I'm very much waiting for the option to download the CF to the Red drive in camera

[MikeHedge]

download CF to RED hard drive was on the top of request list about a year ago.

mike

[Dylan Reeve]

Problem with backup to RED Drive from CF is that it would tie up the camera for the time it takes to do the copy, which limits the benefit of the feature pretty heavily.

Although, obviously at a pinch it could be helpful in some situations.

[Brandon Fraley]

Problem with backup to RED Drive from CF is that it would tie up the camera for the time it takes to do the copy, which limits the benefit of the feature pretty heavily.

Although, obviously at a pinch it could be helpful in some situations.

depending on how long it took, i think it would be well worth it

[Dylan Reeve]

I'd say 3-5 minutes for a full 8GB card would be about what you'd expect - at a guess and based on my experience with the cards and stuff.

[MikeHedge]

the idea is sort how a still camera works... you can shoot 17 RAW images in the RAM of the camera, then they get recorded to the CF card.... so with RED it would be neat to shoot 8GB of RAW, then that gets recorded out to the RAID, then shoot the same 8GB card again. no laptop...

[Dylan Reeve]

You'd have to wait 3-5 minutes while it downloads... So shoot for 4-5 minutes then wait 3-5 minutes for download (at 4K)... You may as well just record on the drive... The RED Drive (as a non-redundant setup) isn't ideal for backup so, you'd still have to make another copy from that drive to a backup system. It's double handling.

Personally I'd much rather swap cards out as we fill them and backup on a separate device (a SolidStore, but that's just me).

[Brandon Fraley]

im not really thinking for backup. I'm going to be shooting a lot with no crew, so im going to have to deal with the cards myself. If i could transfer the full cards to the drive. I could shoot without worrying about loosing frames to shakes and not have to worry about running full cards to a computer every 10 minutes.