RED DAY... Feb. 13th

[Tim Whitcomb]

Originally Posted by Perry Wilson

can someone please explain how the RED RAW recording works in a few short word... Or at least point me to a direction in which I can find out.

new classes start in April... http://www.reducation.net/ :)

[Perry Wilson]

Isn't that like $2500... yeah I think not I understand post and everything I just wanted a breakdown of what the settings are going to do when I input the into the camera...

[Eisen Feuer]

My favorite part of RED Day that I forgot to mention, Q&A was over, the Exit had been opened and people were huddling around the RED guys in the front to talk it up. While I was waiting to speak to Jim there was a german bloke who was showing Jim foreign film magazines that were trying to downplay RED's products and way of doing business as a 'religion'.

Jim laughed hard enough to warrant removing his cigar, threw up his arms and said: "What, it is a religion! Guilty as charged!"

I managed to succeed in suppressing maniacal laughter.

[Roberto Lequeux]

Shawn, you've been right all along. Jim is talking about the way you interpret the RAW information (ISO) and the direction you might find yourself pushing the whole frame with "hard exposure tools".

To protect highlights you want to avoid clipping those hot areas, the only way to do that is with filters, closing your iris, or lowering (shorter) shutter speed. These hard tools change your recording, your RAW files.

With Mysterium you could then bring up the shadows a lot before showing noise.

With Mysterium-X you can bring up the shadows a heckuva' lot more before showing noise. That lets you "protect highlights" more, by allowing you to shoot darker with more filters, smaller T-Stops, and shorter shutters.

[Jon Chema]

Originally Posted by Jannard

There will be a RED Day on Feb. 13th for all Redusers at a location in Los Angeles (TBD).

This will be an all-day event where we will show EPIC and Scarlet prototypes, RED ONEs with Mysterium-X sensors, new accessories... and post solutions, including some new wrinkles. We will show 4K footage on a Sony 4K projector and will also show RED footage film prints. There will be several guests showing accessories for RED and post solutions.

More details coming in the next few weeks.

Jim

Jim, when are you guys going to give us an update on the release date of the new cameras?

We are all eagerly awaiting! :)

[Joseph Hutson]

Originally Posted by jchema

Jim, when are you guys going to give us an update on the release date of the new cameras?

We are all eagerly awaiting! :)

As soon as they have something to tell us. They wouldn't be hiding anything that they could say. They want these cameras released a lot more than most people on this forum...you can bet on that.

[Joel Kaye]

Originally Posted by Roberto Lequeux

With Mysterium-X you can bring up the shadows a heckuva' lot more before showing noise. That lets you "protect highlights" more, by allowing you to shoot darker with more filters, smaller T-Stops, and shorter shutters.

I guess some testing is in order, but you have to remember that RED right now typically gets rated at 320 and MX will probably be rated around 800. That's one stop. That actually is a big deal, but it's 1 stop difference in the way people shoot now. I think it would be a mistake for everyone to leave their lights at home.

I know there's a lot of MX excitement, but I was pretty thrilled with RED footage at RED day myself.

(on another note - RED day was harried for me and I really didn't see as much as I wanted to. Later I found out footage I shot was showing at one of the booths and I never saw it. RED day needs to be longer. Dammit. LOL!)

[R3D Data]

Originally Posted by Joel Kaye

Later I found out footage I shot was showing at one of the booths and I never saw it.

I was on my way out of the morning session and passed by the projector, when out of the corner of my eye I saw a huge steaming pile of sh*t.

Sure enough, it was Manure, the film I was fortunate enough to operate on with David Mullen ASC. Even though the movie was finished in 2k, they had re-rendered a few 4k clips there. So seeing it on the big screen with the Sony 4k projector - well, Ive never seen sh*t look so good.

[Quentin_B]

Originally Posted by Michael Grugal

Thank you to the entire RED team for making this possible. I really enjoyed the event.

I'm especially excited for all the new broadcast television support, Scarlet integration, quick turnaround tools. This will change broadcast forever.

I had one quick question though that I forgot to ask.

How does the 1080P of the Scarlet compare to the 5D, F35, and RED One zone chart that was displayed?

Interested to hear more about this Michael, you are the only one who mentioned it (in this and one other thread on RED day Feb13th).

Can you elaborate on what was mentioned on these fronts for those who weren't able to attend?


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Quentin Brown.
Camera Trainee
RED DIT in training

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In a side note :

I recently went to the broadcast Video expo in the UK and the Red was everywhere. Almost every major stand (apart from those run by other camera manufacturers of course) had one on it. Almost 1/4 of the seminars that could have covered it (i.e. the ones about post or production rather than commissioning and lighting) were entirely about it. Red has hit broadcast production in a big way if there was buzz about anything it was 3D and Red. Glad to see they are all catching on. Still a lot needs to be done to help them all understand it properly - and that's where I plan to come in!