Thanks for the details. When I went to the Red site I could see no indication that the SSD drives only work on Epic. The site shows they work for all the Red cameras so I was originally given misinformation. The reality as I already posted is they just couldn't find enough Red Ones that were outfitted with the SSD Carrier to attach to the Red Ones hence the DIT was pushing for the Epic cameras. Upon investigation I've been told they can use Raw 320 Gig spinning drives to record the Red Ones which will be fine. That way the two different performances can go on two sets of drives which negates the need to quickly offload the drives between performances and makes the spinning drives a more logical and I believe economical choice. They will make two or three backups on location but this way we will also have the camera original drives for another potential backup source.
--- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, "oliverpetersvidy" <oliverpeters@...> wrote:
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> FYI - according to the RED website, the Epic can record 160,000+ raw frames to an SSD. At 29.97fps this computes out to 88 minutes. I'm sure those numbers are actually variable, but it would seem to indicate that a 90 min. record time is right on the edge.
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> I would still suggest running a bench test to determine whether the camera can actually stay on in a continuous 90 min. recording. Heat has been an ongoing issue with RED's cameras. Remember that the Epic has a rather noisey fan that turns off (or down) during recording.
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> Oliver
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