dino g
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I get an email from Brent on Monday saying my X is available.
I immediately respond with payment information ( of course, why wait).
Since I am in Miami shooting a feature, I talk with Michael Keegan about where the camera should be delivered. At the same time i am talking with Hype about a video he will be directing in london next week. I hook him up with our good friend Jonathan Smiles to do the tech/DIT work in London, but since my camera is on the feature i still need to get him a camera. Since the epic x may be available, i set it up so the camera comes to miami and i arrange with hype's assistant to get her the camera over the weekend, provided i get it from RED in time.
The boys at RED kill it and ship out the camera on Wednesday. FED EX has some issues and i dont get in on thursday, or friday and now i am in full panic mode. 100 phone calls and 200 emails later rock stars brent carter and michael keegan ( who is dealing with this while on vacation, and stays up all night literally helping me) completely take care of me and arrange for me to pick up the camera at a north miami fed ex office on saturday morning, so i can make my flight an hour later to take it to hype's assistant.
the fed ex office opens at 9, we wrap in miami sat morning at 8am, i have 1 hour to drive to the fed ex office and then one more hour to make it to the airport and get on my plane to boston.
i get to the fedex office at 9:05am, they have the package but it just arrived and they have to sort the other packages first...i wait 15 minutes for the package, it seemed like 15 hours..i get the package from the lady, i run out to the parking lot, i rip open the box, i dig through the packing materials ( sometimes excessive i think, but also good cause it is safe) and then i see the lovely #00031 serial number for the first time. it is 9:45, my flight leaves at 11, boarding at 10:30, i am 30 minutes away, plus i have to park and go through security.
i may have driven more than 60 mph to the airport, but i will not confirm that, other than to say that i made the plane despite having to have a 5 minute conversation with the boys at TSA about EPIC, they wanted to know pixel counts and file size and media size.....
i fly to boston, rent a car, drive 250 miles to north western vermont on some of the prettiest roads in america ( 3 more weeks and the foliage would have been in full bloom) arrive at the shelburne museum in Shelburne vt and meet up with hype's assistant, hand off the camera and then drive back to boston via a few stops to see friends and family that live in the area.
the camera will travel to london with his assistant and then shoot the video on monday and tuesday. you will hear a lot about the video because adobe has provided hype with a premiere system that he will cut the video on using the raw files. they will put some money into the promotion of hype using premiere exculsively...but it will also be the first shots out of epic-x #00031....
i did not even have time to turn the camera on before it left...
funny how things are, red one #0031 i never ever let out of my sight for years, i hated handing it over to the AC's and kept my hands on it and my eyes on it as much as i could without pissing the AC's off. epic -m #00087 i was kind of the same way until it got onto the feature 7 weeks ago, now i never lay my hands on it and i am at peace with that...epic - x #00031...i just let it go into the world on the very first day...and i am fine with that...
thank you again jarred, brent and mostly michael for making this happen...i cant wait to see the pictures it takes, jonathan and ryan, keep my 3rd baby safe...
dino
below are pictures of the camera in front of the round red barn at the shelburne museum, it is a fascinating place, you should google it and check it out sometime if you are ever in that area. ( not the camera, the museum...)
I immediately respond with payment information ( of course, why wait).
Since I am in Miami shooting a feature, I talk with Michael Keegan about where the camera should be delivered. At the same time i am talking with Hype about a video he will be directing in london next week. I hook him up with our good friend Jonathan Smiles to do the tech/DIT work in London, but since my camera is on the feature i still need to get him a camera. Since the epic x may be available, i set it up so the camera comes to miami and i arrange with hype's assistant to get her the camera over the weekend, provided i get it from RED in time.
The boys at RED kill it and ship out the camera on Wednesday. FED EX has some issues and i dont get in on thursday, or friday and now i am in full panic mode. 100 phone calls and 200 emails later rock stars brent carter and michael keegan ( who is dealing with this while on vacation, and stays up all night literally helping me) completely take care of me and arrange for me to pick up the camera at a north miami fed ex office on saturday morning, so i can make my flight an hour later to take it to hype's assistant.
the fed ex office opens at 9, we wrap in miami sat morning at 8am, i have 1 hour to drive to the fed ex office and then one more hour to make it to the airport and get on my plane to boston.
i get to the fedex office at 9:05am, they have the package but it just arrived and they have to sort the other packages first...i wait 15 minutes for the package, it seemed like 15 hours..i get the package from the lady, i run out to the parking lot, i rip open the box, i dig through the packing materials ( sometimes excessive i think, but also good cause it is safe) and then i see the lovely #00031 serial number for the first time. it is 9:45, my flight leaves at 11, boarding at 10:30, i am 30 minutes away, plus i have to park and go through security.
i may have driven more than 60 mph to the airport, but i will not confirm that, other than to say that i made the plane despite having to have a 5 minute conversation with the boys at TSA about EPIC, they wanted to know pixel counts and file size and media size.....
i fly to boston, rent a car, drive 250 miles to north western vermont on some of the prettiest roads in america ( 3 more weeks and the foliage would have been in full bloom) arrive at the shelburne museum in Shelburne vt and meet up with hype's assistant, hand off the camera and then drive back to boston via a few stops to see friends and family that live in the area.
the camera will travel to london with his assistant and then shoot the video on monday and tuesday. you will hear a lot about the video because adobe has provided hype with a premiere system that he will cut the video on using the raw files. they will put some money into the promotion of hype using premiere exculsively...but it will also be the first shots out of epic-x #00031....
i did not even have time to turn the camera on before it left...
funny how things are, red one #0031 i never ever let out of my sight for years, i hated handing it over to the AC's and kept my hands on it and my eyes on it as much as i could without pissing the AC's off. epic -m #00087 i was kind of the same way until it got onto the feature 7 weeks ago, now i never lay my hands on it and i am at peace with that...epic - x #00031...i just let it go into the world on the very first day...and i am fine with that...
thank you again jarred, brent and mostly michael for making this happen...i cant wait to see the pictures it takes, jonathan and ryan, keep my 3rd baby safe...
dino
below are pictures of the camera in front of the round red barn at the shelburne museum, it is a fascinating place, you should google it and check it out sometime if you are ever in that area. ( not the camera, the museum...)
