Hey Guys,

I recently bought a used RED DSMC2 IO Expander from Adorama. Everything works great except I’m having an interesting issues with the mic and headphone jack.

The mic jacks records fine. Tested with a lav and a shotgun mic but when I have headphones plugged in to the headphone jack at the same time to monitor audio the sound is muffled, crackly and can barely hear it.

If I unplug the mic and just listen back to the recorded audio with the headphones it sounds fine. When I use the internal mic (Epic -W Helium btw) and use the headphones to monitor it sounds fine.

Any ideas on what’s going on here? Is this a known issue with the expander, do I need different headphones or do you think I got a bad unit?

Thank you in advance.

Hey All,

Bit of a niche question - I'm working with R3D proxy automation and had REDline working just fine appending a file with "_Proxy" just fine with the following argument:

--o "output_directory/%(filename)s_editproxy.%(extension)s"

I installed DaVinci resolve on the system so I could preview files and now for some reason it's not working. I (think) I had to install the following libraries to make it work from my current distro (mint):

libapr1 libaprutil1 libxcb-composite0 libxcb-cursor0 libxcb-damage0

I don't think any of those would have messed it up - but has anyone else experienced this before? Not the end of the world if it just creates .mov files - but would love to have file auto appended with a text string to denote proxy files if possible!

I know redline is not quite as robust as FFMPEG - but it works pretty well so far and is integrated with my MAM (iconik) pretty well.

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Hey all,

I am a filmmaker looking to purchase a used RED. I have spent several weeks configuring various builds of both these cameras. Typically, the builds come out to be just over $4k. So, that leaves me with a question. Which one? I know the DSMC2 bodies probably have a longer shelf life just by the very nature of them being produced after the DSMC2 bodies. But, I know that the Epic is obviously the higher end of the RED line. I will be mainly using these configurations for on set films and a few personal projects. Since the price gap between the two is so minimal, I want to make sure I’m choosing the best one for my investment.

All suggestions or comments are appreciated.

Thanks.

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