Dear community and Cmotion crew,
I'd love to know if there are any plans on implementing a Custom White balance option on the camera control setup (i.e. for the Alexa Mini) just as the WCU4 does. It's kind of annoying having to connect the VF in some cases because the WB preset was not saved previously.
I'd also like to know if the lens list handling is going to indicate wether a lens which we want to load is in the USB or in the hand unit. It happens to me sometimes that I export lenses to the USB because the internal memory is full, but then I end up having duplicated lenses on the lens handling page.
As a last question, I'd appreciate an explanation about the reason why i ALWAYS have to re-calibrate whenever I load a lens (with the DATA on). Sometimes I calibrate motors using the motor buttons because I've just swapped lenses, and then I have to run to my hand unit to load the lens before the calibration ends, because otherwise I have to calibrate again (even though the motors were already calibrated). Is that going to change anytime soon?
Thank you in advance for your answers!
Hello Hector,
thank you for your questions. Please see answers below.
WB:
You can set a custom White Balance on the camera, including color correction and add it to the cameras WB list. The custom settings will be available on your cPRO hand unit and you can change in-between these presets.
We will evaluate if it is possible to change the custom settings from the cPRO hand unit directly. Anyways, we can not confirm that feature or have a timeline for it.
Lens list handling:
We will add a mark for lenses available on the USB or cPROs internal memory with a future SW release.
Cal request using "Sync Cam Data“:
The calibration request is send from the ARRI camera as soon as the lens data has changed. In order to avoid calibrating the motors twice, please change the lens, load the lens data and then trigger the calibration function from the motors or the cPRO hand unit.
Hope that helps!
Hello Hector, I’ll try my best to answer one of your questions. You will probably hear from the cmotion team soon:) In regards of list handling here is what I do: Make sure you have the latest SW on you HU and motor (SW 5.0 was just released). When you go into the LOAD LENS menu user buttons 1-3 works as specific buttons for different tasks. -UB1 favorite -UB2 chance display order -UB3 lens info I use UB1 to fav/unfav lenses for every shoot. And they show up on you favorite list of lenses. This way you are able to have tons of lenses stored, but only show the lenses you are using for a specific shoot. Hope this helps :)
Hey Martin! thanks for your prompt reply! I do that Fav/Unfav to choose my shooting lenses, and the UB1 button to switch between global view or favourites view, but still I get a little bit confused sometimes on the global view because I just can't know which lenses are in the internal memory. For example, whenever I switch jobs I find myself stuck in the middle of the lens creation because I run out of space. That problem would be solved quickly if the lens archives were coloured differently depending on wether they're stored.
Thanks!!!
That is very true. I’m sure this is something that can be implemented in a future software release👍🏼