Release Camera Build 3.2.16

[Leif Thomas]

Very strange indeed.

Manual looked like this when I opened it in Safari, OSX Preview and every other "Macintosh" program. Opened FINE in Chrome browser on Mac (on the same computer).

Maybe some font gone wrong?!

[Jarek Zabczynski]

How was it turned into a brick? What was the problem?

Nothing would work. Saw picture, had no scopes, changing settings would do nothing, SSDs wouldn't mount without a reboot, pressing record forced a crash and shutdown.

Going back to previous firmware made it fine again, but they wanted to check it out anyway. I was in edit mode so I didn't mind. They had it for a week and a half and were able to repeat all my issues and rules the firmware didn't work with my camera. Said not to upgrade till the new one comes out. I get it back thursday, just in time for a shoot this weekend! I hope my camera helped sort out the problems.

[John Bannister]

And it's still available on the downloads page. WTF is going on?

Maybe because the problems listed here do not apply to everyone? How Many Epics and Scarlets are out there in the wild? How many of those have issues with this build?

I have been on the latest build with my Scarlet since the morning of its release, I shoot every other other day, no problems not one. In fact I love the latest build. I feel for everyone that is having issues and I am sure Red will address those probs ASAP, but to pull the whole build offline? Seems a little rash.

[Zul, Y]

Also the EPIC Users guide is messed up:

Yea, the text is not showing right in the downloaded manuals.

[Leif Thomas]

Yea, the text is not showing right in the downloaded manuals.

Like I said: just open it in a Chrome Browser tab and it will read fine.

[Jon Carr]

Nothing would work. Saw picture, had no scopes, changing settings would do nothing, SSDs wouldn't mount without a reboot, pressing record forced a crash and shutdown.

Going back to previous firmware made it fine again, but they wanted to check it out anyway. I was in edit mode so I didn't mind. They had it for a week and a half and were able to repeat all my issues and rules the firmware didn't work with my camera. Said not to upgrade till the new one comes out. I get it back thursday, just in time for a shoot this weekend! I hope my camera helped sort out the problems.

wow, I really hope they addressed the issues your camera had in the next build. I guess were all Guinea pigs when it comes to firmware builds. Surprising that I haven't had a issue with this firmware and I'm a low SN like you, seeing that there's almost 5k scarlets out now... I wish you the best of luck on the next firmware build.

[Michael Millichamp]

wow, I really hope they addressed the issues your camera had in the next build. I guess were all Guinea pigs when it comes to firmware builds. Surprising that I haven't had a issue with this firmware and I'm a low SN like you, seeing that there's almost 5k scarlets out now... I wish you the best of luck on the next firmware build.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTykY2B0kEY

[Jon Carr]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTykY2B0kEY

All I gotta say to that comment is, "Bushka Bushka!"

[PatrickFaith]

I'm amazed at how much RED is doing, firmware upgrades are so much more sophisticated, since they directly hook to the hardware ... also RED's component approach (which I love) ... makes testing all configurations people use almost impossible.

Long term though, as way as "suggestion" ... I'd like to see a step between beta and full release ... which would be something like "release candidates". To me Beta is for people that live close to RED and are willing to bring in their camera to HQ and show detail stats to RED (basically "extremely knowledgeable" community testers, i.e. phil/ketch/hobbitguys/scubaguys/etc ... ). Release candidates would be a bit wider group, people that have a complete understanding of RED, and are testing configurations(also don't mind having the camera sent in for a week). A " full release" would occur perhaps a month after a release candidate is out and fully vetted by the community, and would be rock solid across the configurations people have. This is how a bunch of open source projects that I really like work (i.e. blender.org) that have huge amounts of upgrades every day, yet are able to produce super stable full releases.

It's hard for me to comment though, since firmware updates are a different animal, and over 30 years in looking at camera firmware releases I don't know of any company that provides as much value in firmware releases as RED ( and yes their were camera firmware 30 years ago, since my first job out of college job was testing it ).