...a little help guys:

[HardMan]

Hi everyone,
I'm sort of new to RED and have only had experience using industry standard equipment such as Sony's and Panasonic's. I am seriously looking at the RED Scarlet for a business I wish to start up so I can earn enough money to pay for my college fees. I wish to be a 'camera for hire' for Real Estate Agents who want semi-professional promitional videos on hight ticket houses (and perhaps later on begin filming weddings). I don't own an Apple Mac, I have a PC and currently use Premiere Pro; I just have a few questions.

- How good is the RED Scarlet? Is the picture quality sufficient for internet uploading and DVD quality?

- Can I use my PC with Premiere Pro or must I also invest into an Apple Mac and Final Cut Pro?

- what accessories would/might I need?

- I live in Australia, what would be the best way for me to order a RED Scarlet?

- how much???

Oh and if anyone here has experience similar to that of which I am looking at doing, I would appreciate as much advice as I can get.

 

[M Most]

Hi everyone,

- How good is the RED Scarlet? Is the picture quality sufficient for internet uploading and DVD quality?

- Can I use my PC with Premiere Pro or must I also invest into an Apple Mac and Final Cut Pro?

- what accessories would/might I need?

- I live in Australia, what would be the best way for me to order a RED Scarlet?

- how much???

I would suggest re-posting these questions about 4-6 months from now (possibly slightly sooner, possibly longer) when Scarlet is actually being manufactured and sold.

 

[Harry Lipnick]

Frankly dude, and this is not to be harsh but instead to save you money, you could do the exact same projects with a used Panasonic DVX100 for 1000 bucks or so, and edit with the system you already have. A real estate agent - even a high end one - isn't gonna notice the difference by the time it's compressed and on the web. Now, if this were a plan to buy a Scarlet and then have a way of paying yourself back, I'd say go for it. But it doesn't really sound like that. So I'd go for the cheapest way in the door (a good 3 chip DVcam, or HDV I guess) and start savin for school. Good luck man.
Peace,

-Harry

 

[HardMan]

I would suggest re-posting these questions about 4-6 months from now (possibly slightly sooner, possibly longer) when Scarlet is actually being manufactured and sold.

Hahaha yes that's true, I am talking about 6-8 months in the future.

 

[HardMan]

Frankly dude, and this is not to be harsh but instead to save you money, you could do the exact same projects with a used Panasonic DVX100 for 1000 bucks or so, and edit with the system you already have. A real estate agent - even a high end one - isn't gonna notice the difference by the time it's compressed and on the web. Now, if this were a plan to buy a Scarlet and then have a way of paying yourself back, I'd say go for it. But it doesn't really sound like that. So I'd go for the cheapest way in the door (a good 3 chip DVcam, or HDV I guess) and start savin for school. Good luck man.
Peace,

-Harry

Hi Harry,
At present I'm just going to hire a camera from a local business who hire out professional cameras on a daily charge. I would be hiring out something like the "Sony HVR Z1P" for $200 over the weekend and shoot the video. Charge around $650 to pay off the costs of hiring the camera and all the in-between costs such as transport etc. During the week I work full-time in a Cafe which earns me enough to set aside money towards college as well and stay alive so any profit made through the video work would be set aside and would quickly grow into enough to afford a decent camera such as the Scarlet and a Mac to do all my editing on. Now I won't be committing to a purchase until next year as I will qualify for a huge student discount on any Apple Mac and also have enough saved to buy the camera. So I have the funding aspect worked out, I just wanted to know a little about the camera itself and whether it would be the camera of choice for that price range (under $4000).

Thanks a lot though Harry!!

 

[Stephen Gentle]

- How good is the RED Scarlet? Is the picture quality sufficient for internet uploading and DVD quality?

Think hundreds of times better than an old SD DVD... You could put Scarlet footage on a 1080p Blu-Ray and still have a whole lot of room to crop or scale the image...

- Can I use my PC with Premiere Pro or must I also invest into an Apple Mac and Final Cut Pro?

Premiere CS4 has a plugin that can process RED ONE footage, so it should be able to cope fine with Scarlet.

- what accessories would/might I need?

Just RED accessories, or all accessories? On the RED side, the US$3750 fixed lens 'complete kit' should have enough to shoot (ie. the camera, some kind of battery, a recording device (probably Compact Flash drive) and some kind of monitoring device (a viewfinder or an LCD screen). Apart from that you have the obvious ones (tripod, etc.)

- I live in Australia, what would be the best way for me to order a RED Scarlet?

There was some talk earlier of having Scarlet sold through pro video retailers, but now it has been redesigned into the new DSMC system, I'd say that you'll only be able to order it from RED. Hopefully the exchange rate will be in high 80 cents range then so it will be cheap to get it over...

 

[killfilm]

Dont forget also that vegas pro 9 supports editing RED footage directly and running vegas on a 64bit system will increase the performance of editing R3D files

 

[Gavin Greenwalt]

Buy a Canon D5.

If your subject isn't moving quickly RED is overkill.

I'm buying a Scarlet. But I'm assuming that money is going into a trash can somewhere never to be seen again. I have 0 expectations of my scarlet every paying me a penny.

If you already are shooting and making money with a camera. You'll probably continue making money. If you're depending on your Scarlet opening doors... don't. They're going to be a dime a dozen. In the end the camera costs are such an incredibly small fraction of any operating costs you'll find that everything else you spend money on will dwarf your camera expenses.

 

[Peter Hodgins]

I wish to be a 'camera for hire' for Real Estate Agents who want semi-professional promitional videos on hight ticket houses (and perhaps later on begin filming weddings). I don't own an Apple Mac, I have a PC and currently use Premiere Pro; I just have a few questions.

I would get a Panasonic AG-HPX170 and shoot DVCPRO HD at 720p24PN for the Weddings and Real estate stuff. Run this business to make a profit. If you make "surplus" money .... get a S35 Scarlet and Rpp's for your feature. The most important thing is to learn how to make money with your camera.

The most important point to know about making money with a camera? ...... "f8 and be there!"

 

[Mark K.]

FAQs are your friend. Go to red.com and read through them.

 

[HardMan]

Dont forget also that vegas pro 9 supports editing RED footage directly and running vegas on a 64bit system will increase the performance of editing R3D files

Really? That's interesting to know as I'm thinking of switching to Vegas...thank you.

 

[Joe G.]

"Is the picture quality sufficient for internet uploading and DVD quality?"

Since it's a 3K camera with more than 11 stops of latitude, the real question is: Is it good enough for the BIG SCREEN?

I'm thinking yes.