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Appendix B: Managing Digital Media
The RED ONE camera supports two types of media - compact flash and hard disk.
Compact Flash (CF) media requires a RED-FLASH (CF) module mounted to the left side of the
camera body. Hard disk media is housed in a RED-DRIVE magazine mounted to the rear of the
camera body and connected via a custom16 pin SATA interface cable.
RED-FLASH (CF) compact flash media is currently available in 8GB and 16GB capacities. Re-
cord duration is dependent on resolution, quality and frame rate, but an 8GB card will typically
provide 4 minutes of 24fps 4K RAW, 7 minutes of 24fps 3K RAW, or 16 minutes of 24fps 2K
RAW recording. A 16GB card will provide twice this capacity.
RED-DRIVE media is currently available with a capacity of 320GB. Record duration is depend-
ent on resolution, quality and frame rate, but a RED DRIVE will typically provide 160 minutes of
24fps 4K RAW, 280 minutes of 24fps 3K RAW, or 640 minutes of 24fps 2K RAW recording.
RED-RAM media is currently available with a capacity of 128GB. Record duration is depend-
ent on resolution, quality and frame rate, but a RED-RAM will typically provide 64 minutes of
24fps 4K RAW, 112 minutes of 24fps 3K RAW, or 256 minutes of 24fps 2K RAW recording.
During a recording, the rear status screen, and monitor outputs will display the % of remaining
media capacity. At 10% remaining capacity the media status box will turn yellow, at 5% it will
turn red. At 2% remaining the camera will cease recording.
This reserves a small amount of capacity for ancillary data to be written to the media.
Note: Media formatted on-camera will use a name and root volume in the format:
Camera Letter + Reel Number + Month + Day + ** where ** is a two digit alphanumeric random
number generated by the camera for each file e.g. A001_0512A6.RDM
Clips recorded to the media follow similar naming conventions
A001_C001_0512A6_001.RDC
and
A001_C001_0512A6_H.mov
etc
Media Formatting
Media must be formatted prior to using it for recording. Formatting is performed on camera,
although media may be erased on a Macintosh OS X personal computer, allowing the camera
to just add the necessary project profile and clip log data.
Copyright RED Digital Cinema
Nov 27 2008
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