RED has engineered the RED ONE to be capable of extraordinary performance, thanks to its sophisticated FPGA design. Although more expensive in nature to build, the system allows for re-programming, which allows capabilities to be added through firmware builds. With each build, the RED ONE becomes more feature-rich and exceeds the abilities originally imagined for it. With the implementation of Build 16, the RED ONE has fulfilled all its promises and then some. Future builds will continue to add features, increase performance and solve new challenges, while always being free of charge and part of the experience for the RED ONE owner.
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RED provides free downloads of Firmware Builds to all registered owners on its
Customer Support page at red.com. The download is then placed on a CF or SD card and placed in the camera. Upon booting, the camera's display will acknowledge the recognition of a new build on the inserted media and cue the user to accept or deny.
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When the camera boots up, it displays the firmware build and serial number.
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One of the most unusual facets of the RED ONE is the fact that it captures information, unprocessed, off of a Bayer Pattern CMOS sensor. This raw data is simply all the information that the sensor is able to "see", comprising all color information in a single channel, and is not processed. Identical to the way a DSLR still camera captures a RAW file, this enables the user to adjust parameters after the fact, as color, gain and sharpening can all be done post capture.
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Shooting RAW differs from traditional video recording in that recording a video signal requires adjusting color temperature, exposure, gain, sharpening, knee, toe, pedestal and black levels prior to processing the signal. In a RAW capture, all this information can be addressed after the recording is made. The sensor simply captures what it sees and all processing takes place in post, offering the ability to make all adjustments for the perfect picture in the editing process. Exposure, in the form of shutter and iris, is the only finite adjustment that need be made, at time of capture, to obtain the correct image.
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REDCODE is the magic codec that compresses 4K RED RAW into a manageable file size that can be recorded on any media from a compact flash card to a spinning drive. Without REDCODE, a 4K 24 fps information stream runs as high as 20GB/min.
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There are two compression settings on the RED ONE, REDCODE 28 and REDCODE 36.
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Although it is tempting to ascribe MB/sec. to the two compression choices, they simply represent a rough value to the compression, which varies as a function of the image complexity and detail. Traditional shooting would be well suited to REDCODE 28, while REDCODE 36, using less compression, would be beneficial for high detail or complex scenes. It's also important to note that these figures are megaBYTES per second, not megaBITS per second. As an example, HDV is a format that provides 25Mb/sec (megabits per second) while the RED ONE runs, as a default 4K, at roughly 28 MB/sec (megabytes per second), which is equivalent to 224 Mb/sec. (megabits per second), almost 10 times the amount of information as HDV.
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The RED ONE camera currently offers 3 solutions for recording.
First, and recommended as the most reliable, bullet-proof and dependable solution, is recording directly to compact flash, using the RED CF Module, an internal recording solution that adds $500 to the cost of the body. This solution is so viable that RED builds every body with this option in place. In addition to providing the best recording solution, it also allows the best method for uploading firmware builds for the camera. Recording times for a RED 8GB CF card run between 4 and 5 minutes, depending on resolution and compression, roughly the equivalent of a 400' film reel. Introduced concurrently with Build 16 was the 16GB card, doubling the performance in record time of the 8GB card.
The second solution is the RED DRIVE (RAID) which comprises two 160GB drives in a RAID 0 configuration. This solution provides roughly 3 hours of 4K record time (again, dependent on compression).
The third solution is RED RAM, a Solid State drive technology, offering the combined advantage of shock proof, robust design with long recording time. The current capacity of RED RAM is 128GB, affording an hour of 4K capture.
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RED strongly recommends the use of RED branded 8GB and 16GB cards. RED has tested virtually all high speed 8GB cards and put their name on the best performance product, while developing their own 16GB card. Due to the tremendous amount of data being written to these cards, it is only the very highest speed cards that can handle the data stream.
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