How fast can you shoot ad edit on Red?

[Monteiro]

A few weeks ago a director friend of mine, who usually works in 35mm, called and asked if I was available to shoot a commercial for a fishing resort in the Florida Keys. He wanted to shoot above water, underwater, on a jet ski, at night, in slo-mo, etc.. The clincher was he wanted to shoot this Thursday and Friday and have a rough cut ready to show his client on Sunday. He told me I could come back to my studio in Fort Lauderdale to do final color correcting and audio mixing on Monday and Tuesday but he wanted something to show them on site. I told him it was a “tall order” but, thought I could handle it. I knew I could handle it but, I never like to overstate my case. I would rather under-promise and over deliver than the opposite.

We shot in a variety of resolutions and speeds in and out of my custom underwater housing and even intermixed a few POV shots from an HDV camera mounted on the nose of a Jet Ski. We had decent weather and were done shooting around lunch time on Friday. By 12:30 Friday night on my 15" MacBook Pro I had edited, mixed and roughly color corrected this 30 second spot for the director to tweak Saturday morning when he showed up at my hotel room at 9:30AM. (I told him I was up all night... he believed me.) With a little collaboration we finished up by lunch time and FTP'd the client in Texas a hi-def H-264 file for final approval and integration into a fishing show they were editing at a post house out there.

How fast can you shoot and edit on the Red? Don't tell your clients.

http://www.sea-cam.com/Video/HawksCayUpdate.mov

You can read the full story on my blog at: http://red-solutions.blogspot.com/2010/01/red-digital-cinema-production-in-land.html

 

[Kwan Khan]

speedyyy.. Very nice

 

[David W. Jones]

Good work George!
I do a ton of voice work for fishing shows, many from the Keys.

All the Best!

 

[Julian Gerretsen]

Beautiful shots! Can I ask which dolly unit you use for these kind of shoots? I am looking for something reasonably lightweight that travels well and packs reasonably small and your travels looked really smooth.

Best Wishes

 

[Anita Ingrao]

wow, that was neat! great job!

 

[jimhare]

Love your shots, great job!

Here's my fast turn story. Last year I shot a live 2 hour concert with 6 Reds, each shooting 100% of the time.

Shot on a Friday night. I had the first half of the concert transcoded and fully edited by Sunday afternoon, full concert by Monday end of day.

And that was WITHOUT a RED Rocket™! I now have a RR and get stuff out even faster!

I love Red, and anyone who says it's slow to work with doesn't have all the facts!

 

[Cody Cuellar]

I just produced and DPed my first ever RED project. We shot Saturday and Sunday, but due to our CF readers not working and needing to return all of our props and gear today (Monday), we couldn't capture any footage until this afternoon. We just finished logging and I'm ingesting right now, hopefully to be finished by the time I get home from work tomorrow (I'm on a two year old Macbook Pro). It gets color corrected Saturday and submitted to the competition a week later after audio post. Not as fast as some of you guys, but still quick for a short film, and for my first time ever using RED.

 

[Mike Mazzotta]

My first RED show was a 5 day short. . . I was on-set as DMT/RED Tech, and they had me line editing. . .

The fastest time I had was a FULL scene (approx. 5 minutes) about 45 minutes after the data was pulled off the drive/backed up, and I had a Full assembly 20 minutes after they wrapped the last day. . .

. . . was cutting the QT Proxies off the R3D files, and later swapped them for ProRes files for FCP. . . but still. . .

AND 90% of my cuts made it to the finished film. FTW.