120fps MX issue

**Sean Sweeney** · 04-03-2010, 08:35 AM

Having a strange issue on set - when the new Mysterium-X RED is in either redcode 28 or 36, at 2K 2:1 on the RED raid there is a flashing white frame from 118fps to 120fps. There are white flashes and whatever image is live on the screen will freeze and stutter back and forth over a couple of frames.

All other framerates work without fail - it's only 118-120fps that we're seeing this issue with.

Anyone else have this problem?

**Greg M** · 04-03-2010, 08:43 AM

have you updated to release version? It is supposed to fix this, havent tested it yet.

**Sean Sweeney** · 04-03-2010, 08:49 AM

Ah okay, that seems to be it. Cam was picked up yesterday from the rental house, in the AM, I guess they didn't have a chance to update it. Thank god we've got a cool-headed DP who worked around the situation! (I once worked on a shoot where the DP wrapped the RED after one minor glitch!)

**PatC** · 04-05-2010, 11:55 AM

Out of curiosity what build were you on?

**Sean Sweeney** · 04-05-2010, 02:02 PM

It was build 30.4.1

**Noah Richoz** · 04-05-2010, 05:26 PM

Originally Posted by Sean Sweeney

It was build 30.4.1

Same build for me and the same problem. I heard from RED and they are aware of this problem and have supposedly fix it in new builds, I'm still on 30.4.1 so I haven't tested that claim myself.

**J. Eric Camp** · 04-05-2010, 06:25 PM

Newer builds Than 30.4.1 are fine

**Greg M** · 04-05-2010, 06:28 PM

Why dont you guys have the release build installed?

30.5.0
http://www.red.com/support/download/186

**Stuart English** · 04-05-2010, 06:30 PM

Same build for me and the same problem. I heard from RED and they are aware of this problem and have supposedly fix it in new builds, I'm still on 30.4.1 so I haven't tested that claim myself.

It is fixed in 30.5.0. So worth upgrading to that official release a.s.a.p.

**Sean Sweeney** · 04-07-2010, 08:04 AM

Originally Posted by digitalfx

Why dont you guys have the release build installed?

30.5.0
http://www.red.com/support/download/186

We had a cam for the shoot on the weekend that was tested and put together the day before the update came out. As a rule I don't change builds after we've started shooting, and since 120fps wasn't mission-critical, we shot at 100fps and had the rest of the shoot run smoothly.

The camera is now 30.5.0 and loving it.

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