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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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I think some kind of simple best-practices process needs to be written up by someone soon, either inside Red or outside. It looks like new skills are necessary to really make Red work well- no one benefits if people are getting noisy images from preventable exposure or processing mistakes.
 
jbeale said:
I think some kind of simple best-practices process needs to be written up by someone soon, either inside Red or outside. It looks like new skills are necessary to really make Red work well- no one benefits if people are getting noisy images from preventable exposure or processing mistakes.
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I do think a it is in Red's best interest to make a basic, simple recommended practices for "processing" .r3d files. Bear in mind, the software tools are changing fast. My opinion is that the tools have not yet "shaken out", meaning that in as far as there will always be updates, when you get more than one build in a quarter, you are very much in active development.

That being said, I have gotten a few phone calls and emails from other camera owners, and it's apparent that not everyone even reads the material Red is emailing or including with the software builds.

Bottom line is that REDUSER is the on-line community for Red. Until next week - tha ACTUAL RED"USERS" was pretty dman small number. Over the next month or so, I think you will see TONS of suggestions and techniques on this forum.

Other folks are also creating on-line training and resources sites outside of RED and REDUSER.
 
where's the real footage offh..?
 
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The question was : where is the real footage, you teasing b...... :)

Emmanuel
 
So Blu-Ray over HD-DVD??
Getting HD DVD authoring tools is
a must. I have looked into Sonic
and know that history. Early
adopters pay and pay.
DVD SP needs a facelift so we
will be able to show RED footage
in it's best light.
 
Blu-ray is more beneficial for content creators simply by virtue of the fact that there is more space on the disc. That means greater data storage and the potential for less compression on video content.

We've been through this quite a bit; they are both similar and in many cases (most commercial home video releases, for example) the quality of the encoded content on both formats is identical.

From a practical standpoint, the best reason to choose Blu-ray over HD-DVD from an HD creation standpoint is that there is a vastly larger selection of home burners and media available for Blu-ray; while it is still arguably on the pricey side, we are just now beginning to see the very first HD-DVD recordable drives trickle in.
 
On the flip side of that Haakon, Blu-Ray REQUIRES the author to implement AACS copy protection features and regional coding, whereas HD-DVD does not. That means mastering expenses costing upwards of US$2,500 per glass master, to see if the AACS works before replication. From various AVSForum accounts so far, it's taking three or four masters before they get a good one, so you're looking at upwards of US$10,000 just to get a glass master for replication on a Blu-Ray line. Not sure I want that extra expense before I've sold a single copy of my independent movie....
 
visceralpsyche said:
That means mastering expenses costing upwards of US$2,500 per glass master, to see if the AACS works before replication.
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Hi,

I was speaking more from the single user/BD-R point of view than the glass master/replication route. That's a whole different ball of wax - but the encoded video file could easily be used for either format so it's not too big a deal. I wasn't under the impression that Mark was talking about replication, but I could be completely wrong.

As an aside, I was at Fry's yesterday and they're selling single-layer BD-R media for $7 a piece and the drives are now under $600. It's getting very reasonable from a price perspective to edit and burn 1080p material on a single consumer workstation.
 
visceralpsyche said:
Not sure I want that extra expense before I've sold a single copy of my independent movie....
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Maybe you should, as this single copy might be the only one you sell before an idiot converts it to a torrent for everyone to download for free. Last month, sales of some HD-DVD titles reached a new low of 1 for every 4 Blu Ray. Do a little research in internet and you will find that it's full of HD-DVD rips while at the same time BluRay rips are harder and harder to find as the AACS encryption updates for new titles.

If you love your work shouldn't you protect it?
 
Red Guy said:
So Blu-Ray over HD-DVD??
Getting HD DVD authoring tools is
a must. I have looked into Sonic
and know that history. Early
adopters pay and pay.
DVD SP needs a facelift so we
will be able to show RED footage
in it's best light.
Click to expand...

We are running a series of tests using Sonic's Scenarist HDMV -
 
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