Is it possible to record audio straight into camera yet?

[Zhang Ming]

Does anybody know how you "bracketting the levels" inside the camera? I cant figure that out. Have not gone throw the menus in a few updates thoe.

Please !

[Zhang Ming]

Sorry to raise the issue again but while we are talking about Epic and sound, is there any truth to the suggestion that later Epics have a different and quieter fan in them? I can't remember where I read this - I think on a sound board somewhere so there may very well be nothing in it.

YES, my computer with 8 big Fans and 2 same size fans together are much more quiet than 1 epic. Anyway EPIC's fan noise is always the same during recording, so it's not difficult to erase it in post works. I would use just EPIC to record the sound for budget saving reason with a senhaiser MKH8060, I would say it's just enough for the workflow since I prefer to use post sounds.

[Marc Wielage]

Sorry to raise the issue again but while we are talking about Epic and sound, is there any truth to the suggestion that later Epics have a different and quieter fan in them? I can't remember where I read this - I think on a sound board somewhere so there may very well be nothing in it.

Yes, there was a hardware upgrade last year that improved the fan noise situation (among other things):

http://www.red.com/news/epic-m-upgrade-program

I've done some sound work with several Epic cameras in the last couple of months, and it generally hasn't been an issue. Coincidentally, Arri just announced a quieter fan in their Alexa XT (which was already fairly quiet to begin with).

[Lewis-M Soucy]

Sorry to raise the issue again but while we are talking about Epic and sound, is there any truth to the suggestion that later Epics have a different and quieter fan in them? I can't remember where I read this - I think on a sound board somewhere so there may very well be nothing in it.

Fan noise won't be an issue anymore since this: http://www.reduser.net/forum/showthr...nd-Algorithms/