Tethered EPIC?

[Mike 'Fireman' Ross]

Has RED, or anyone else, hinted at a solution for running an EPIC (or indeed Scarlet) tethered; bypassing SSD entirely and acquiring direct to a high-performance RAID attached to a DIT cart / workstation? Any thoughts on how that might best be achieved?

Mike

[Terry VerHaar]

Wouldn't you have to have the code to write R3Ds, which I don't believe RED has (or will?) release? Otherwise, you can take a clean signal from the HD-SDI port and record to an external recorder.

[Sean McAllister]

You could record off of the SDI but you would still want to use the SSD's to have RAW

[Doug Beatty]

Sorry, the only way to get the Raw out is onto SSDs. You can grab compressed 1080 debayered clips via HDMI or an SDI breakout cable, but not full resolution.

[sergio arguello]

someone explain that... why would you need the code if the ssd are for all intents just drives why then can you record to external if some smarter than me were to bastardize a connection to the ssd mount to take info elsewhere...? cant wait to hear this one

[Craig Parkes]

Someome in the 3D thread posted an extension cable they had designed to get the SSD off the side of the epic around the back for getting cameras closer together in side by side config I believe. This would be same idea, you'd just need the external cable to be longer and the raid to be formatted in the same fashion as the SSD with similiar protocols and connectors. Enough difficulties in that to properly be beyond third party providers, but from a technical point of view one would imagine possible. It's just not something a lot of people would buy so the development costs would be hard to justify.

[Andrew M.]

Aren't we going to have connection on I/O module that like in RED 1 allows you to connect external drive?

[Les Dittert]

If they allowed that, it would also enable folks to use non-red SSD's as well. That is a no no .

[Nick Burridge]

The early (still in development) RED ONEs had a RAW port I believe for off board recording as seen here. Removed due to lack of interest given the costs involved, as well as the introduction of REDCODE.

[Gavin Greenwalt]

I imagine the SSD drive is just a SATA connection. You could probably re-pin an esata cable.