O.C. Red User Group

[Dave Weber]

Good times had by all last night. Thanks everyone for showing up. And big thanks to Brad for hosting.

It's nice to know that we have a community of RED owners and users right here in the OC. It was great meeting all of you last night and sharing what's happening in this crazy business of ours. We are a pretty diverse group in what we do but it seems we share a common goal. To make the best product we can by shooting on a camera that blows most others out of the water.

[Dave Weber]

Anthony,

Here is a rig we used on the 3D shoot i was telling you about.

[Brian Ferguson]

That was really fun last night! Honestly I was wondering what we were going to do, but thanks to Brad for moderating and getting the ball rolling. Also thanks to Brad for hosting the event! There is a lot of depth of talent in the O.C.! I also got to see my first Scarlets.

I guess I didn't sign the sheet but if you want my email just PM me and I will give it to you.

[Anthony Vu]

I just wanted to put down some of the things that happened last night for some of those who missed it.

First and foremost, I want to thank everyone for making it out to the meeting, especially Brad for graciously hosting at his office.

Some OC REDUSER experience included:

Films - Gamer, Pirates of the Caribbeans, On Strangers Tides , The Girl with the Dragon Tatoo
Commercials
VFX Greenscreen
Short Films
Documentaries
Animation
Corporate
Events
Graphic Design
Personal Home video of kids at 4k

There were people of different backgrounds from the veterans of the film days to those who were new to digital cinema. Some veterans didn't even own a RED EPIC because renting was a great option as well. OC REDUSERs have a plethora of equipment. If you need something, it's likely one of the guys had it.

Subjects that stood out that we talked about:

Our experiences on set with directors, DPs, actors, models, producers and of course geeky electronic stuff.
Scott Miller's documentary with Squaw Valley
RED employees (past and present) about the history of RED
R3D workflow with Avid, FCP and Adobe
RED DIT workflow
Backup systems
3D Rigs, the direction the industry is moving and is it right for some business models
Brad's Original Spruce Goose Technical Drawings and Gallery of Apple products
NAB

I know there is a photo of our meeting floating around somewhere, but I don't have it. If anyone knows where it is, please post it for us. :)
There was plenty of food since there were leftovers.

Overall a great meeting for OC REDUSERs to connect and work together. I'll send an email to those who signed up later today.

[Anthony Vu]

Dave. You cracked me up. It was great hearing your stories about rigging everything! I'm telling you, graffers tape is the BEST.

Anthony,

Here is a rig we used on the 3D shoot i was telling you about.

[Phil Holland]

Ah. I wanted to sneak out to this, but I was working up in LA. I'll have to come out to the next one. Would have been great to meet you guys.

[Chris McKechnie]

It was def'n fun! :-)

[David Carstens]

It was a real pleasure to hang with such a friendly group!

[Justen Nguyen]

Anthony, thank you for a great recap of the meeting!
We also talked a lot about setups.
x seemed to be the favorite for outfitting most Epic's and Scarlets.
Atomic13 also had a really awesome cover for the epic. With a T top handle in the works.
We also seemed to be pretty unanimous on using bricks instead of redvolts for production.

I'd like to thank everyone for coming out and making the event phenomenal as it was.
Brad, once again your moderation and hosting definitely helped bring it all together!
I'm stoked to meet people who are as excited as I am about Red. (I probably hung out with Ketch one too many times.)
I'm glad the OC reduser group is beginning to really take shape now.
I think Dave definitely put it best.

We are a pretty diverse group in what we do but it seems we share a common goal. To make the best product we can by shooting on a camera that blows most others out of the water.

David I have picture of your scarlet! I'll post later.

But yes that group picture would be nice!

[Scott Miller]

What a great meeting! As you pointed out, what a breadth of experience in the gathering of minds!!