RED KOMODO-X // The Owner/Op Dream Cam that's CHEAPER than V-Raptor?

After watching the entire 2 hour live stream and combing through the comments and speculation, here's my prediction for what this camera will offer later this year.

Carlos Q was doing a chill live stream when the Father of Dragons himself, Jarred Land came on to talk a bit about a potential -X camera that could sit between the $6,000 Komodo, and $18,000 V-Raptor.

To me, there's two distinct areas for improvement that would retain the DNA of a Komodo camera, without cannibalizing on the V-Raptor and VRXL.

Dual SDI ports,
And a better FPGA.

The dual SDI ports is an obvious demand, but the better FPGA is a bit more complex.

The FPGA is the brain of the camera, and all the best cameras use FPGAs, not ASICs, to power their systems. FPGAs are super valuable because you can simply write new code and upgrade them after delivery with a simple firmware update. So my theory is RED puts in a higher performance Xilinx chip that will give the KOMODO-X 6K 60, 5K 96, and 4K 120. Besides being incredibly useful, hitting those benchmarks will please the marketing team, and all the dorks who think a ZV-E1 is a better buy than a Komodo. The Komodo would make a great vlogging cam after all, you just have to set it up.

But the coolest feature to me, would be built in simultaneous HEVC h.265 encoding. With that, the Frame.io Camera to Cloud workflow suddenly becomes massively more accessible. You'd only need an upload bandwidth of 15 to 20 mbps to upload high quality 4K proxy files to the cloud, drastically accelerating the adoption of C2C. RED could create not just an epic cinematic crash cam, but a media and EFP/ENG camera, with the right accessories.

As successful as the Komodo was, and continues to be, I think the Komodo-X will go down as a history defining digital camera, like the ARRI Alexa, original RED One, Canon 5D/7D, and Panasonic DVX-100.

0:00 Komodo-X stays Global Shutter
0:55 3G or 12G SDI?
1:42 Adding the RMI (7" Touchscreen Monitor)
2:04 Check pinned comment for Jarred's thoughts (RIP my suggestion)
2:54 Faster sensor readout or better FPGA
3:29 *Actually good B-roll*
4:04 More highlight protection pls
4:38 I love camera to cloud so much
5:49 There's ONE BIG PROBLEM with camera to cloud though
6:20 Wi-Fi 6 and CFx
6:57 The one feature everyone ACTUALLY WANTS