Slow Motion And Sound Recording

[Leaf Baimbridge]

I'm curious if there is any information as to whether or not the camera's will be able to continue recording sound while shooting at higher frame rates? It would be nice to have sound files available with the footage.

[Marc A Hutchins]

As far as I know you will not record audio when over cranking.

[Aaron Newsome]

As far as I know you will not record audio when over cranking.

really? HDV cameras record sound just fine when overcranked to 60p.

[Stephen Gentle]

As far as I know you will not record audio when over cranking.

Why not? I think you should be able to - except maybe if you are speed ramping...

[Rob van Gelder]

I think that HDV cameras can only convert their 60i fields into frames and that gives you basically a 2x slowmotion (with sound possible as it was shot originally on 60i), but it will decrease your resolution by 50%.....

I looked at several fora with this question, could not find a native 60P HDV camera.

[Roberto Lequeux]

HVX-200 in 720p mode records 60 progressive frames. But who cares about other cameras, they are not the one he asked about, plus we are talking about several times that amount of frames being recorded so I could see it possibly being a problem depending on how things work inside. The only one that could answer that is a Red representative and I doubt we'll hear about it till we are closer to release.

[Leaf Baimbridge]

Just to clarify. I'm not talking about recording sound at the same frame rate (if that's even possible) when over-cranking, just getting a sound file to go with the footage. Since they are two separate recording devices (presumably) within the inner workings of the camera I was just curious if anyone at the RED team had pondered the possibility of audio recording simultaneously while the camera is over-cranking.

[Florian Stadler]

HVX200 and EX1 do not record audio when overcranked.

The audio guys "hey I'm not hearing anything" when one forgot to go back to 24fps in the haste of production always came in pretty handy....

[Roberto Lequeux]

You don't need to overcrank to record 60 fps, you can just shoot 720/60p or 1080/60i if you don't mind.

EDIT:
For the HVX which has 960 lines worth of detail you do want to shoot 1080p and possibly 1080i, but 720p is a real 720's worth of detail so if that is enough for your delivery then you might as well shoot 720p and have access to all it's undercranking and overcranking framerates plus three framerates with two active 48/16 channels: 23.976, 29.97 and 59.94. The sharpest 480 or 720p HD streaming would still come from 1080p though, which is possible at 23.976 and 29.97. If you deliver 720p to the web you might want to mix 1080p and 720p but your shots originating from 1080p material will in fact look a tad better.

[DJK]

I too am curious as to whether sound is recorded at higher framerates. It would be great if it was. I myself have been trying to decide between the EX1/3 and one of the Scarlet 2/3s. If the Scarlet could shoot at 60 fps with sound, for the purpose of playing it back in real-time as 60p, that might very well be the deciding factor for me.