Filmouts issue

[Fernando]

hi again guys...

during all this time i have been using red for TV commercials and music videos. On the 27th of this month ill be working with red for film outs.
I have a couple of questions about Redcode and other stuff.

What is the real setup for better filmouts?

A. 4k 16:9
B. 4k 2:1

Ive been told different answers to that and some ppl say one or the other.

The next thing is that were going to use drives and cards, im gonna have 5 reddrives cause were going to be downloading every 15 - 20 minutes. Doing breaks cause i recommended not to shot all day long in a drive and find out at the end of the day that something is wrong (you know murphy's law). But also i will have 8 gigs cards.
In this movie will not be any highspeed or hand helds (i've been told that). OK... this is the thing... the days job will be flying to LA from Puerto Rico. It will be a film break as in motion picture working with film and the production want to make sure that the lab has everything there before we format any info on the drives, so i will also have 8 - 10 8G cards in my equipment....
So, i know that Reddrives work in redcode 36, the cards on redcode 28.
For film out... its that a big problem??
This is the list:

we will bw shooting @ 24 frames, 4K (2:1 or 16:9) no high speed, no sudden camera movements (no steadycam, no hand held).:help:

thanks!!!
Fernando

 

[John Tissavary]

Regarding framing, that depends on your final framing. 2:1 is closer to scope, and 16:9 is closer to 1.85:1 - so the choice belongs to whoever is making the decision on final filmout framing.

As to your second question - it's difficult to answer based on the information you have given. There will be no problem mixing the two forms of Redcode compression. But it would be helpful if you explain what, exactly, it is you are filming out:

Are you sending circle takes to filmout for dailies? Are you cutting negative? Are you offlining on an NLE and then conforming/grading the entire project online? If I have more specific details of your post workflow I may be able to give you a better answer to your questions, though I can think of no reason that mixing 28 with 36 would be a problem.


regards,

John T.

 

[Fernando]

thank you very much!!!
i think they will offline an NLE and then conforming/grading... tomorrow ill have the answer for that. Im almost sure it will be that way.