Raging Red Video…

I think I worked on one of the first RED VIDEO CAMERAS with BLOOD: A Butchers Tale and all it was, was a small lens box attached to a MAC.  It didn’t like Audio then and it doesn’t much like Audio even now.  In the Video world it has made a huge splash and yet I really don’t see why.  Inexpensive?  Maybe.  But with all the accessories that you have (NOTE: HAVE TO) to add to make it functional it still comes in at about 60K+ so it ain’t cheep.  They are working on it but here is the kicker that I see – you are the BETA testers for them , and you’re paying for it.  The picture is good and I’ll leave it at that, cause that isn’t my area.  Now they do boast 4 audio inputs.  Great!  Well almost.  There is no audio scale at all to line a tone up to and getting to the menu to set it up is a little crazy.   Next.  Time Code.  Well we changed it, it showed up on the screen, but not at the LEMO.  Still had the old TC.  So we waited for 10 minutes to see if it would change.  It didn’t.  So we jammed that time code.  Great.  Well almost.  Somewhere during the shoot, it did change.  Now we caught it at lunch, but that sure won’t help the work flow will it.  So right now I’m working on a show called Under the Apple Box by Ellie Fox and we are working with a RED.  The last one I used on Attila Lucas SEEDS didn’t like audio either.  So any solutions out there?  Let me know, cause I’m really looking for answers.