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  • Hey all, just changed over the backend after 15 years I figured time to give it a bit of an update, its probably gonna be a bit weird for most of you and i am sure there is a few bugs to work out but it should kinda work the same as before... hopefully :)

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It completely freaks me out that you can now paint, 3D model, create music, and edit video on tablets all while connected to the world. All of that crazy ability in our pants and bags. Not to mention being able to control, interface, and monitor our Red cameras soon.

We don't have jet packs or flying cars everywhere though. Gotta work on that.
 
Phil Holland said:
It completely freaks me out that you can now paint, 3D model, create music, and edit video on tablets all while connected to the world..
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I hear you... Remember that Prometheus 2-page spread we ran in the ASC magazine? I downloaded that color corrected full resolution tiff from Company 3's servers, dropped it into a layered photoshop file, acquired and pasted Darius Wolski's quote, sent the whole thing to Fox's legal department for approval and then after that sent it to Ridley Scott's with notes for final sign off.... All 100% on a dinky little tablet from the back of a taxi cab on the way from Manhattan to JFK.

The world is changing very quickly.....
 
Jarred Land said:
I hear you... Remember that Prometheus 2-page spread we ran in the ASC magazine? I downloaded that color corrected full resolution tiff from Company 3's servers, dropped it into a layered photoshop file, acquired and pasted Darius Wolski's quote, sent the whole thing to Fox's legal department for approval and then after that sent it to Ridley Scott's with notes for final sign off.... All 100% on a dinky little tablet from the back of a taxi cab on the way from Manhattan to JFK.

The world is changing very quickly.....
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Jim is right you never stop working or sleep! Heh heh heh
 
Well, Jim, at least you have something to do while waiting in line at the bank.

But seriously, I will solve your problem in three easy steps.

1. No more inbox. None. Internal 'mail' can just be sent via IM to your phone/tablet.

2. If people need to contact you, they can send you a postcard or a letter. You can respond via email provided that people give their address to you on the postcard.

3. If it's urgent - which will be up to each correspondent to decide - they can send you a fax.

Recapitulation: no inbox, internal mail is now IM, standard customer communication via postcard, urgent communication via fax, email is used for replies only.

Consider your problem solved.
 
Evan Starkey said:
It's true i got a happy birthday wish from reduser.com...... thinking it was automated i replied thanks to which Jarred sent back....Great now go get pissed...... Scary stuff.. :emote_couch:
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Same thing happened to me... :-)
 
Jarred Land said:
The world is changing very quickly.....
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Heh. We'll it's certainly allowing people to get work done in places where work was never being done before!

I think I freaked Paul out in Vegas when I processed the panorama I shot on my Scarlet and color corrected it in 30 minutes on my laptop in the hotel room. But that's all your fault :)
 
Phil Holland said:
Heh. We'll it's certainly allowing people to get work done in places where work was never being done before!

I think I freaked Paul out in Vegas when I processed the panorama I shot on my Scarlet and color corrected it in 30 minutes on my laptop in the hotel room. But that's all your fault :)
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Heh heh yeah.... and it's only gonna get better :)
 
Reminds me of what happened with Jim's Facebook page. Jim added me as a friend and it made my day. But a week later he quit Facebook altogether because too many people were hassling him. I personally never emailed or tried to IM, but it was nice to know that Jim was there in case something really important came up. Come on guys, don't ruin it!
 
Jarred are you still posting or posting again ;)

Waiting for the panorama function in EPIC and SCARLET ... the iPhone does it, now let's step up ;)
 
1. Galaxy Note is the dog's bollocks.

2. RED is the dog's bollocks.

3. Jim & Jarred are the dog's bollocks.

4. Redusers are great, but clue up and stop emailing these guys unless you *really* have something to say, capice? Jim, Jarred, I'll make points and suggestions here, but I'd never rattle your cages with email unless it was something I thought you *really* needed to hear; I prefer what you do with your time when you're *not* answering emails...

Mike
 
Assuming that you don't want to give up email, I'd suggest to use speech recognition: Have the machine read emails to you and use Dictate to answer them BUT have a live assistant proofread your replies before they get sent out or risk some glibberish sneaking in (sorry, no Android version yet).

all the best
peter
 
I have the solution. Been working on the problem for 5 years. Will give you a free copy to run locally on your Mac Laptop.

I sent details to Jarred.

Michael Zaletel
Founder, i4software
 
There's nothing wrong with creating a priority filter, getting those you know are important for your business and skimming the rest. Steve Jobs only responded to a few customer emails a year. Maybe you do what Obama does... read five a day. You can't let it become you. People will understand.
 
Personally I'm thinking of going way retro - messenger pigeons :yesnod:
 
Jannard said:
Do you really want to hear from my assistant? That would be like Sony.

Actually, that would be from an assistant to an assistant... maybe. :-)

Jim
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Just delegate. Don't think to yourself that delegating is wrong. Jim, you effectively delegated some things to Jarred way back, and now he's invaluable. Whoever you get to be your interface could end up being just as important. As long as you hire another rockstar instead of getting an intern or someone only capable of admin (the word 'overqualified' should be outlawed). There's plenty of people out there that would love to work for RED - I mean you get too many emails to jobs@red.com to be able to respond as it is!
 
Jim, I was going to email you personally, so in light of this I'll tell you here.

I've been watching the RED stage from the wings for 6 years. I've been a member of the forum for 4 going on 5 years and shot my first paid job with a RED One in 2008. I always knew that investing in a company that invests so much in it's own work and customers felt right, so finally last December I put my deposit down on a Scarlet. I received my camera in April and instantly got on board a low budget feature film shooting this fall. Last week we wrapped. I've now shot my first feature film and it's all thanks to that little camera with a big heart. For me it's a dream come true, a lifetime ambition fulfilled, and hopefully the start of a journey that will last the rest of my life.

Your vision, the dedication of the RED team and the help and support of REDuser's here has helped me achieve that which I could not have done without this company and community. So thank you, to everyone with RED running through their veins.

This is one you don't have to reply to.

Justin
 
You need an assistant with the ability to group questions for you, I believe there is some kind of repetition over the week. Time spend on a group answer is more efficient and informative, the best: you stay in personal contact.

I bounce most e-mails (job-related) back into the forum, as the repetition is what has killed my time in the past. People find then these answers (faster than I could have newly answered), if needed -- they extend the thread.

What helped a friend of mine with a similar amount, was to share specific codes for the subject lines. So, e.g., more technical questions can be filtered.
 
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