I bought an Epic Dragon, Now what??

[Brandon Shafto]

Hello Community.

I have been a long time lurker, but joined in recent months. I want to take a second and thank everybody that contributes. You have helped make me better at what I do and have offered immeasurable knowledge. That being said, I bought an Epic Dragon. Adequately outfitted, ready to shoot. Am I part of the family now?

I have a 12TB RAID5 on the way.

I have a dual 8 core 2.1Ghz, 32gb, quadro m4000, 256gb ssd for OS PC machine coming as well.

No, I can't afford a Rocket-X now, haha. budget is gone.

NOW WHAT?

1. How do I get a BS Rep? I'd like to complete transfer of ownership.

2. Recommended ballpark compression rates for 4K capture to vimeo/youtube release?

3. I'd ask about slow motion here but there's that amazing stickied thread chuck full of info...

4. Is there a specific way/thread/secret club to go about advertising services?

5. Is there a REDucation you would recommend over another?

6. Do I need to be REDucated if I have you all?

7. I want to be the very best I can be. Performing, helping, I feel that there's a family here and I believe I'd be a good addition. How should I pursue excellence inside of the RED family?

 

[Brian Nguyen]

Shoot on it, make mistakes, and learn!

 

[Daniel Reed]

Congrats on the Epic-D, its a great camera.

I highly suggest getting a redlink and using foolcontrol
http://www.red.com/store/products/redlink-development-kit
http://mikasky.free.fr/foolcolor/foolcontrol-ios.html

It can be tricky rigging on the redlink, here's how i did it:
(there's a couple millimeter gap from the top 15" rods and redlink antenna)

With mostly smallrig parts:
​http://www.coollcd.com/


Answers

1) Buy something from RED.com or call them and you should get auto-assigned a rep - I've gone through several

2) lowest you can go at 6K, then downscale - prores proxy for vimeo/youtube usually works

3) ...

4) nope - but good work tends to not go unnoticed

5) to each there own - just shoot a lot of tests and read reduser

6) see 5 and ask questions after spending a fair enough time trying to figure X issue out in tests

7) see 5 and share what you know/learn


Best of luck :thumbsup:

 

[Brandon Shafto]

Awesome.
Thank you very much Briana and Daniel.