4k / 2k PRO RES / DNxHD MODULE - who wants one.

[Häakon]

I couldn't find it announced anywhere in the NAB forum, but RED is showing a wireless video module in their booth that's just mindblowingly cool. It's not the Miezer module; this one just takes the wireless video component and puts just that into a module nearly identical in size to the module adapter. Signal is rock solid, virtually zero delay, full 1080p. The receiver unit is only HDMI capable right now (no HD-SDI), but for basic monitoring, that's no problem. I took some pictures but can't post them from where I am right now. Anyway, this is probably the most exciting thing to me on the floor right now, and since it was apparently overlooked, I thought I would mention it. I've been told by several RED employees that the price will be extremely competitive.

Note that this doesn't do proxies or anything (I never really cared about that, personally), it's just a wireless video module. But it's still very, very cool.

[Vico Martin]

I couldn't find it announced anywhere in the NAB forum, but RED is showing a wireless video module in their booth that's just mindblowingly cool. It's not the Miezer module; this one just takes the wireless video component and puts just that into a module nearly identical in size to the module adapter. Signal is rock solid, virtually zero delay, full 1080p. The receiver unit is only HDMI capable right now (no HD-SDI), but for basic monitoring, that's no problem. I took some pictures but can't post them from where I am right now. Anyway, this is probably the most exciting thing to me on the floor right now, and since it was apparently overlooked, I thought I would mention it. I've been told by several RED employees that the price will be extremely competitive.

Note that this doesn't do proxies or anything (I never really cared about that, personally), it's just a wireless video module. But it's still very, very cool.

Häakon, hero of the day!, please some pics!
Red is listening us, as allways
Thanks!

[Häakon]

Häakon, hero of the day!, please some pics!
Red is listening us, as allways
Thanks!

Hi Vico,

Thanks mate - I'm very excited about this one!

Here are two pictures for you. One of the module and one of the receiver that you would connect to a monitor or TV. It's a pretty minimal looking module, but very powerful! The receiver looks like a mini router or something.

The quality of the video looked VERY good.

[Kevin Wild]

The video signal looked fantastic, too. Can't wait to hear more about this one as I'm thinking the full Meizler module may be too much for us right now.

Kevin

[Scott Crawley]

Oh yes... Everything we wanted in a Redmote Pro? Remote focusing with video? Connect to a deck or laptop with ultra studio, record to disk and populate LivePlay or ToDailies... Lots of things to do with this beyond simple monitoring.
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Hi Vico,

Thanks mate - I'm very excited about this one!

Here are two pictures for you. One of the module and one of the receiver that you would connect to a monitor or TV. It's a pretty minimal looking module, but very powerful! The receiver looks like a mini router or something.

The quality of the video looked VERY good.

[Scott Crawley]

Häakon,

Did you note if it sent any metadata as well? Lens data? Timecode?

[Häakon]

Häakon,

Did you note if it sent any metadata as well? Lens data? Timecode?

I didn't ask about that but I certainly can. All we could see on the floor was a monitor showing a clean, wireless feed from a camera inside a glass box (though you could wave in front of it to see the lack of any delay). I did speak with the RED guy who was responsible for its creation and he told me that it can have whatever overlays from the camera you wanted, separate from either the LCD/EVF or the HDMI/SDI feed. So, certainly you could have timecode displaying on the wireless monitor's feed if you wanted... but I'm not sure if that also comes along the stream as metadata or something.

[Scott Crawley]

I didn't ask about that but I certainly can. All we could see on the floor was a monitor showing a clean, wireless feed from a camera inside a glass box (though you could wave in front of it to see the lack of any delay). I did speak with the RED guy who was responsible for its creation and he told me that it can have whatever overlays from the camera you wanted, separate from either the LCD/EVF or the HDMI/SDI feed. So, certainly you could have timecode displaying on the wireless monitor's feed if you wanted... but I'm not sure if that also comes along the stream as metadata or something.

Thank you so much... And if you could inquire about start stop flags, file names... Any and all metadata that could accompany the stream, that would be great. I wouldn't mind being able to auto run a dailies recorder that was not on camera.

[Scott Crawley]

Jarrd's taking questions. So far he has not addressed Wireless transmitter Q's but this smells a lot like confirmation of one part...

Remote Pro is coming along.. you are seing pieces of it in things like the Meizler module. As you can tell, we are taking our time to get this one right.

[Häakon]

Jarrd's taking questions. So far he has not addressed Wireless transmitter Q's but this smells a lot like confirmation of one part...

The Meizler module has built-in wireless control for focus/iris/zoom motors; obviously that would work hand in hand with a "REDMOTE Pro" that's designed specifically for controlling those things (a number of other third party controllers will work too). I'm not sure how that would carry over to a wireless video module with no motor controls (but maybe I'm misunderstanding what you're asking). I did confirm that the HDMI output of the wireless receiver base is a standard protocol (nothing proprietary about the signal), so it could be used for a video village monitor, into an external recorder for RGB recording, etc. But it's essentially just a video feed that you don't have to hard wire to the camera to get access to. That's what I'm taking away from it, anyway.