Pete Proniewicz-Brooks wrote:Chris Hocking wrote:Let's try get audio working properly on the shipping BMC before we even get started on the Pocket please!
As far as menu controls and similar are (so ignoring connections) the two are likely to be identical, it is the stated intention is for the firmware to be close to identical across the range (the BMPC will likely differ more than the BMPCC from the BMCC firmaware wise as its colour science is likely to be different).
Thus any features such as VU meters or better sound management internally on the BMPCC are more or less guarenteed to make it to the BMCC.
In general I agree with both of you, but I wonder if the reason why improvements in the BMCC audio
graphical user interface (as opposed to audio recording performance) are so slow in coming is more due to hardware limitations rather than BMD having the time or interest in doing it.
For example, what if the original BMCC hardware doesn't have enough RAM available to implement GUI changes such as VU meters and such. I don't know how likely this is to be the cause for the delay in implementation, but maybe?
Now, with the new BMPCC pocket and BMPC-4K cameras, these have new circuit boards with at least somewhat different processor board chipsets compared to the original BMCC, so they hopefully have plenty of extra RAM, etc. available for implementing GUI changes both initially and later via firmware updates.
I know BMD has said they "hope" to implement the "same/similar" firmware on all their cameras, but I wonder if at some point that becomes impossible or impractical, especially with the original BMCC?
I guess we'll have to wait & see ...
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