RELEASED: Beta Build 20 Firmware (v20.1.2)

[Michael Hastings]

I just updated to the 20.1.2 beta. Someone recently posted no iData in this build but perhaps it just needs another boot. After back shading I put on a Canon lens and had no iData. But, now, after another reboot, all my lenses are showing iData. I'll do more testing tomorrow, but so far it works with all my lenses. Also I want to thank the whole Red team for all they have done to make this the best build ever and especially for fixing the audio codec playback error. It was such a delight today being able to show my client the takes without seeing green clips and codec errors over and over.

That's great news! Really hope RED will do everything possible to make Birger/i data integration solid and approved. It is a major deal for some of us.

[Mark Crabtree]

It's our pleasure Mark, and we are working to get this to official release status a.s.a.p.

What firmware do you have in your Canon (Birger I assume) mount BTW?

20A

[Eric Ulbrich]

Either "optical" stops in the sense of lens aperture, or "electronic" stops in the sense of shutter speed.

But not "electrical stops" in the sense of monitor path IRE values.


That seems to have been a confusion for some people.

As we are representing a higher dynamic range image (what's in front of lens, and / or recorded to the .R3D file) by a lower one (what's displayable by the LCD / HD-SDI monitor) you have to be careful describing the characteristics of the former image by the latter one.

Ok. thanks.
So im curious. How does one activate the Sensor RAW meter and histograms? What camera menu. (sorry, still learning them!)

[Paul Leeming]

I upgraded a camera to build 20.1.2 and have noticed an odd problem (not on my camera, on someone else's I'm shooting with on a movie):

The BACK LCD panel intermittently won't show any info on boot with build 20.1.2 and stays blank the whole time until I reboot the camera. then it usually comes on with no further issue.

Anyone else seen this with their cameras?

One note is that we are using the Birger mount, but this worked fine with build 20.0.2 so it's not my first guess as culprit, but you never know.... haven't had a chance to test PL mount yet on same camera as we're shooting until end of Sunday with Canon EF lenses.

One other thing I noticed on this client's camera, on taking the PL mount off to put on the Birger mount.... the /i pins were installed, BUT the pin connector was disconnected inside the mount itself!! Is Red shipping cameras this way or did Seika DI do this locally after trying to service the client's camera? The client hasn't ever touched the mount so they haven't done it....

Thanks,

Paul

[mikeburton]

Hey Paul,

I have seen the back panel LCD do the same thing on my camera. I've seen this since build 18. Like you said, if you reboot it comes back up but it is a strange and annoying issue.

[Stuart English]

Ok. thanks.
So im curious. How does one activate the Sensor RAW meter and histograms? What camera menu. (sorry, still learning them!)

Sensor RAW meter is always active - its the vertical bar to the right of the histogram.....

[Cail Young]

Any chance of this going gold in the next 48 hours? We have a telemovie starting prep on Monday :)

[Stuart English]

Possibly, but there is always an internal check list to go through before we take that step.

But let me say this, Build 20 V 20.1.2 is our most reliable build. I'd certainly use it...

[Mennovandijk]

Yesterday we did a shoot with build 20.1.2 and all went great.
AND Phantom power stays on after power recycles which was a pleasant surprise :-)

[Cail Young]

Build 20 V 20.1.2 is our most reliable build. I'd certainly use it...

Unfortunately, it still has the word "BETA" on it. Sigh.