Christopher Wright
August 29th, 2018, 04:52 PM
Hi everyone,
I've had my Shogun Flame for 2 years now and it's never been all that reliable. It doesn't happen often, but occasionally the unit stops recording and I get a yellow warning icon in the top left corner and the red border around the picture starts flashing. There's a link below that shows what this looks like. Most of the time I can go all day on and off with no trouble, but sometimes it happens several times a day. When this happens, I still get a picture and audio from the headphone jack, and all video passthrough connections still work - but I have to go into playback mode and back before it will record again.
shogunflame on Vimeo
This has only ever been used as a backup and my deliverables come from the camera card, but I'm working towards something where I need this to be a reliable primary recorder. When I first got it, I was recording to a 2tb HDD, thinking it would be fast enough since I'm only recording 1080/59.94i at Pro-Res LTE. When the above issue started to happen, I swapped that with a Crucial MX300 525gb SSD (the older MX200 is on the Atomos list of supported drives, up to 10bit ProRes Raw at atomos.com/drives). However the problem persisted with this drive.
Then last year I filed a claim with Atomos and sent it in. They said the unit seemed fine but (if I remember correctly) they sent back a different refurb unit anyway. The problem still happens.
Just looking at the icon, I would guess that indicates a write speed error, or maybe drive issue. Can anyone confirm this? I'd be surprised if the Crucial drive I have is not sufficient, but I would appreciate it if anyone could tell me for sure that a different drive is necessary.
Thanks in advance!
Chris
I've had my Shogun Flame for 2 years now and it's never been all that reliable. It doesn't happen often, but occasionally the unit stops recording and I get a yellow warning icon in the top left corner and the red border around the picture starts flashing. There's a link below that shows what this looks like. Most of the time I can go all day on and off with no trouble, but sometimes it happens several times a day. When this happens, I still get a picture and audio from the headphone jack, and all video passthrough connections still work - but I have to go into playback mode and back before it will record again.
shogunflame on Vimeo
This has only ever been used as a backup and my deliverables come from the camera card, but I'm working towards something where I need this to be a reliable primary recorder. When I first got it, I was recording to a 2tb HDD, thinking it would be fast enough since I'm only recording 1080/59.94i at Pro-Res LTE. When the above issue started to happen, I swapped that with a Crucial MX300 525gb SSD (the older MX200 is on the Atomos list of supported drives, up to 10bit ProRes Raw at atomos.com/drives). However the problem persisted with this drive.
Then last year I filed a claim with Atomos and sent it in. They said the unit seemed fine but (if I remember correctly) they sent back a different refurb unit anyway. The problem still happens.
Just looking at the icon, I would guess that indicates a write speed error, or maybe drive issue. Can anyone confirm this? I'd be surprised if the Crucial drive I have is not sufficient, but I would appreciate it if anyone could tell me for sure that a different drive is necessary.
Thanks in advance!
Chris