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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 :)

Announcing my debut film, "Southwest Light"

I am going to be meeting up with our very own Kennan Ward this weekend for some filming! Really looking forward to meeting him! I will hopefully have a new blog up next weekend, and then it's off to Yosemite for two weeks on May 24th... the official kickoff for three epic months of filming in the Sierra and White Mountains all summer. Cannot wait!! I can almost smell the pine trees now.
 
Tom, those clouds are nuts. Wow, great shots! It's gonna be so much fun meeting up with ya at some point on this voyage of yours.
 
We had some fun shooting out at Salton Sea on MX this afternoon. The Sachtler 9+9 is a serious pimp when it comes to those smooth pans!!

Couple of pics....

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And here's a little cell-phone video of our last shot of the day. This was done at 3K 50fps, but I also did a take just before it at 4K 30fps, hoping to compare them once I have Twixtor'd the 4K shot.

Video: [B]http://www.twitvid.com/7RZT3[/B]

I have a blog update coming this weekend with lots of pics and a couple vids.
 
Tom,

nice shots and it's great what you are doing.

Also wish you the best to get soon "a call" from RED to become one of chosen "tattoo" EPIC testers

when you could continue to follow "a clean" 4K workflow you wanted to have from day one of your project idea.
 
Tom Lowe said:
Some PMs to Jarred might help... :ihih: :smilielol5:
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Maybe but also EPIC 5K supposed to be more powerful acquisition tool for stills and motion picture than any of Canon's DSLRs or similar...

Tom,

that means you should finally "decide" about your main tool and "dedicate" your project exclusively to RED.

That's maybe a kind of possibility to put you in the front line of EPIC "tattoo" testers.

Just because why should RED gives you a tattoo when you (already have) planed to shoot a half of your movie on the another camera that's actually Canon DSLR(s) or what-so-ever.

(Re)think about it.
 
I wouldn't shoot Toms stuff on Tattoo, the timelapse stuff anyway.

I would on the release epic but Tattoo is the beta essentially, and you don't wanna lose that 1 in a million shot.
As much as I love RED I don't see them conquering the DSLR market for many years to come, thats a whole new learning curve to get used to.
Does Epic have an intervalometer?
 
EPIC has already a full time-lapse capability build in.

Also EPIC's base unit by its form and shape has a pretty much consumer accepted DSLR look.

EPIC is something that is going to "smash" today's success of Canon's DSLR video market

just because HDDSLRs are a such bad clones of basically EPIC's idea of lightweight and universal movie/stills camera design.
 
Yes but DSLR's shoot stills much much better than videos. I have no doubt it will smash their video market. Not so sure about the stills market. I'm sure it will make inroads as a studio stills camera for sure, but I don't see it being a location tool for stills.
 
Jay Gannon said:
I wouldn't shoot Toms stuff on Tattoo, the timelapse stuff anyway.

I would on the release epic but Tattoo is the beta essentially, and you don't wanna lose that 1 in a million shot.
As much as I love RED I don't see them conquering the DSLR market for many years to come, thats a whole new learning curve to get used to.
Does Epic have an intervalometer?
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Go ahead and shoot it on a Tattoo! And on another camera or two at the same time. :)

Epic has an intervalometer and should also work with external timers and intervalometers or computer control as well. What I'm really wanting to know is if Epic will have long-exposure abilities. With the RED One, we're limited to a maximum exposure time of 1 second.
 
Jeff Kilgroe said:
Go ahead and shoot it on a Tattoo! And on another camera or two at the same time. :)

Epic has an intervalometer and should also work with external timers and intervalometers or computer control as well. What I'm really wanting to know is if Epic will have long-exposure abilities. With the RED One, we're limited to a maximum exposure time of 1 second.
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You and me both Jeff. Longer exposure times are key for timelapse. When they get Epic dialed in for long exposure timelapse I will have my 5D2s in the back of the pack. I bugged Jim and Jarred about long exposure times on the January RED Day. They said Epic would have 15+ second exposure times. Hopefully they will find a way to process out the hot pixels like the 5D2 does. Or I guess it would be something more for REDcine-X to handle. Hot pixels will always be there. Just have to have a way to deal with them.
 
The hot pixels are there on the RAW frames. AE or PS or whatever demosaicing program you use takes them out automatically. When you shoot JPEGs, of course, the camera takes them out. For full pixel-for-pixel RED RAW, I imagine the post software would do it. For in-camera scaling, obviously the hot pixels need to be killed in camera. Because Red compresses their RAW more than still cameras, I wonder if this could in any way make post-processing hot pixel removal more difficult? Probably not, but who knows.
 
If you are shooting timelapse, you can probably go with a lower compression scheme, even lossless.

With the lossless mode of EPIC, it seems like having an offline REDCODE encoder would make sense. You could then take your lossless REDCODE and compress it for other purposes.
 
Stacey Spears said:
If you are shooting timelapse, you can probably go with a lower compression scheme, even lossless.

With the lossless mode of EPIC, it seems like having an offline REDCODE encoder would make sense. You could then take your lossless REDCODE and compress it for other purposes.
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What would be nice in that case would be Adobe Camera RAW integration for Redcode RAW, especially stills and timelapse. Having ACR as an option for R3D files might be very nice. If Adobe can do it for Canon, Nikon, Sony, etc, why not Red?
 
It's amazing. The product reminds me of the Red camera... a big leap over current systems at a fraction of the price of a "real" motion-control system. I will be doing some videos behind the scenes with it soon.
 
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