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Crossing The Line - The Home Theater Version

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Last Night Ted brought the RED demo to a small post house/rental facility in Santa Ana California. He packed the house of course and we all were treated to a screening of Crossing The Line.

The system they were using was a 1080p projector and 5.1 sound system from Best Buy. The same basic set-up that most of our audience will be using.

I just thought you guys would like to know that it looked amazing. I saw the 4K demo at NAB 3 times and I was blown away like most. But that experience felt completely surreal to me. There was a disconnect. Like i had bought a ticket opening weekend for Peter Jackson's latest blockbuster.

But sitting there last night watching it again was the first time I felt that this level of cinematic quality was within my reach. I could imagine myself sharing my own work with my friends and family sitting on my couch, in my living room!

That heavy, tangible feeling, is something that I never would have expected and certainly have never experienced before from... you know, a camera. But now that it's inside me it feels like my life is changing.

Which is exactly what I'm looking for.
 
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thanks for sharing. sometimes i feel like everyone has seen the full version except for me.

just out of curiosity, was the movie playing off of an hd-dvd or blu-ray or just spooling off some hard drive in a laptop (if so, was it running apple prores?)?
 
man, I wish they would release a torrent of the full thing in 2k so we can watch it, and 4k so we can get a better idea of how 4k will be. I wish I didn't have Final semester tests during NAB. Now it seems like most of us will have to wait for Mr. Jackson to Put crossing the line as a easter egg on a future release.
 
Thanks for sharing that.

I get "chicken skin" just tinkin' bout it.
 
wigby said:
thanks for sharing. sometimes i feel like everyone has seen the full version except for me.

just out of curiosity, was the movie playing off of an hd-dvd or blu-ray or just spooling off some hard drive in a laptop (if so, was it running apple prores?)?
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Ted said it was ProRes encoded played back from a Final Cut timeline.
 
Ninety Nine, glad you enjoyed the show....

The projector was a Sony VPL-VW50 SXRD 1080p. The Playback was directly from FCP 6 on a MacPro on a timeline with a version of the movie at 1080p ProRes 422. The 5.1 surround was from the AJA Kona 3 card taking the AES outs and converting them D-A and taking the 6 inputs into a mixing board and then sending them to the speakers in the room.
 
Ninety-Nine said:
I forgot to ask. Sorry.

Hanging on the ceiling it looked, to me, a lot like this one:

http://www.projectorpeople.com/projectors/projdtls.aspitemid=20032&itmname=BenQ+PE7700
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The benq 7700 is a 720p projector (I got one), but maybe the W9000 or the W10000 from Benq both are 1080p and looks quite similar (except the lens is centered, on the 7700 it´s on the side) so my guess is it was either the w9000 or the W10000, (but I wasn´t there)


EDIT: Nevermind, Briferg cleared it up....
 
briferg said:
Ninety Nine, glad you enjoyed the show....

The projector was a Sony VPL-VW50 SXRD 1080p. The Playback was directly from FCP 6 on a MacPro on a timeline with a version of the movie at 1080p ProRes 422. The 5.1 surround was from the AJA Kona 3 card taking the AES outs and converting them D-A and taking the 6 inputs into a mixing board and then sending them to the speakers in the room.
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Okay, maybe not entirely Best Buy.

And thanks, Brian, the show was perfect.
 
I saw the thing myself when they were here in NY and it was utterly amazing. I forgot for those 15 minutes or so that I was in an APPLE event.


Ninety-Nine said:
That heavy, tangible feeling, is something that I never would have expected and certainly have never experienced before from... you know, a camera. But now that it's inside me it feels like my life is changing.
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The RED camera will be a test for me and alot of people in that it will test our patience and skills in the disciplines of filmmaking, if we were so spoiled by the ease of our little digital cams. It forces me to respect the seasoned veterans and makes me wish that I had formal training or paid attention at some point in time. It's becoming more important now, I think, to know what you are doing and not just be satisfied with what looks okay on your monitor. I'm scared. and I dont even have a reservation.
 
"They say that California is a paradise, and Hollywood turns nighttime into day"

"They say that California is a paradise, and Hollywood turns nighttime into day"

"Last night TED came round and we watched Peter Jackson's RED footage on some state of the art system".. grumble.. then we all drank Shiraz and went surfing... grumble.. goddamm Californians grumble...

Last night we all gathered in Godalming, Surrey, England to watch 15 seconds of David Lean's short movie recorded onto a 78" and presented on an old 12" valve set... The movie was mute but old johnny boy accompanied it on the piano. Afterwards we drank real ale, danced the morris dance, and sang God Save the Queen :cold:

Roll on IBC Amsterdam:clown2:
 
you guys gotta goto apple.com and look up the Final Cut road show.. Teds going all over the place showing this demo so it might be a good opportunity to see a little Red.
 
Jarred Land said:
you guys gotta goto apple.com and look up the Final Cut road show.. Teds going all over the place showing this demo so it might be a good opportunity to see a little Red.
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Jarred -- the Final Cut Tour currently is showing only three cities. Are there more which they don't have listed?

I keep waiting for them to put Seattle up. The diagram shows Seattle, but unless Ted did Seattle right out the gate and I didn't see the thread (totally possible) in say, the first week it was up -- in which case, grrrr -- then nada. No Seattle. Because I've checked every couple of days since I first noticed the thread.

I guess my question is, is Ted only hitting the three cities showing on the Apple site, or are there others Apple isn't showing? Like say, Seattle? *smiles*

Jesse Wendel
 
Jarred Land said:
you guys gotta goto apple.com and look up the Final Cut road show.. Teds going all over the place showing this demo so it might be a good opportunity to see a little Red.
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Yeah - in the US only. They showed a picture of the RED camera when I was at the show here in denmark, but no movie :-(
 
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