I hate to burden you with questions during your shoot, but I was wondering if you had problems with the Codex Digital during your evaluation? I was looking at two for our project because of its bandwidth as I don't believe the S2 will work for us. Otherwise, if the Codex has some shortcomings I'll build a capture station from scratch, but I'd like to go with something off-the-shelf.
TNX
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I suspect it's time for us to poke our heads above the parapet around here.... I'm not aware of any Codex problems experienced during the Benjamin Button testing, though Claudio will correct me if I'm wrong. This was the first extended workout the system had experienced - we're the new one - and we were very pleased with how it went. We had one glitch when we were given bad power and no line-conditioner, but the RAID worked fine and nothing went missing.
As far as we've ever heard - and as Claudio alludes to further up the thread - when the last-minute decision was made to revert to the Viper it was simply a matter of it being most straightforward to go with the setup they'd used before in the very short time available.
We're very happy to record any of the 2K or 4K cameras mentioned, by the way: Viper, Genesis, Arri (we're going to offer data-mode capture for that one, too), Dalsa, Vision Research, and anything existing or upcoming that we've ever heard of. We do two 2K at once (and soon four in 4:2:2), and up to 60fps where the camera can handle it.
Claudio Miranda
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I suspect it's time for us to poke our heads above the parapet around here.... I'm not aware of any Codex problems experienced during the Benjamin Button testing, though Claudio will correct me if I'm wrong. This was the first extended workout the system had experienced - we're the new one - and we were very pleased with how it went. We had one glitch when we were given bad power and no line-conditioner, but the RAID worked fine and nothing went missing.
As far as we've ever heard - and as Claudio alludes to further up the thread - when the last-minute decision was made to revert to the Viper it was simply a matter of it being most straightforward to go with the setup they'd used before in the very short time available.
We're very happy to record any of the 2K or 4K cameras mentioned, by the way: Viper, Genesis, Arri (we're going to offer data-mode capture for that one, too), Dalsa, Vision Research, and anything existing or upcoming that we've ever heard of. We do two 2K at once (and soon four in 4:2:2), and up to 60fps where the camera can handle it.