NAB NEXT DOOR...?

[Jack Cooper]

Humm...

Let's see...Spend money to come see Red Studios, take a class, or listen to Jim/Ted/etc...OR spend that money to goto NAB...?

We just received this posting for the NAB lineup...Looks like a total jerk-off session...I mean really.

Does anyone else find it interesting that several of the topics are clearly areas were Red has, is, and will dominate and not one representative from Red is on the panel of invited speakers....?

I propose a "NAB, next door"...complete with live streaming of the entire Red team and all the stuff they'll be doing...

Personally, I think you can learn more on this board in 15 minutes than you can during the entire conference...

http://naob.informz.net/naob/archives/archive_2188085.html

I think we'll save our money to come visit Ted at Red Studios some time...Their toys are better anyway...

Have fun in Vegas...

 

[Shane Betts]

Didn't you know Jack? 4k didn't exist until Sony decided it did.

 

[Ben Coleman]

We just received this posting for the NAB lineup...Looks like a total jerk-off session...I mean really.

Does anyone else find it interesting that several of the topics are clearly areas were Red has, is, and will dominate and not one representative from Red is on the panel of invited speakers....?

That was my thought as well. Red is like the geeky kid that got picked on in school. The kid who then grows up to be bullies' boss and become a billionaire.

 

[PatrickFaith]

That was my thought as well. Red is like the geeky kid that got picked on in school. The kid who then grows up to be bullies' boss and become a billionaire.

We need to all were REDUSER t-shirts ...

 

[Jack Cooper]

We need to all were REDUSER t-shirts ...

Patrick...I love that idea...can you imagine a sea of red shirts in the audience. The sony guys would flip a lid for sure... Almost reminds me of the Thomas Crown Affair near the end...all the red shirts scurrying around the floor of NAB - I take it back...I might fly up just to see that...

 

[Zeb B]

. . . you might want to study the history of Standards Development before standing on a rock and shouting

 

[Jack Cooper]

???

 

[Gavin Greenwalt]

???

I think he means that RED was one of the most vocal advocates for 4k--but 4k wasn't invented by RED. In fact the first major 4k feature film was probably Spiderman... a Sony picture.

 

[Jay A. Kelley]

You mean the one shot on RED?

 

[Gavin Greenwalt]

You mean the one shot on RED?

No I mean the terrible one shot on film.

All of the speakers at that panel are heavily involved in standards and formats. Something RED not only doesn't participate in... they seem antagonistic to. I wouldn't expect them to be speaking at a panel about open standards--seeing as their file format is not only proprietary, it's encrypted.

 

[Alan Skinner]

Gavin, you are correct. r3d's are proprietary and I am sure you were only being informational.

I have a few things that are my personal intellectual property as well. Nothing as big (yet) as redcode but I do understand the idea of keeping things to yourself to make sure that you can make a living from your hard work.

Open formats happen "after" someone has squeezed the best from it and then it makes sense to share around.

 

[Alan Skinner]

Hey Gavin,

Just checked out your reel.

Nice stuff! I am teaching my students how to do match-moving. Some of them are taking to it like fish to water. I am going to show them your reel.

Alan

 

[Jack Cooper]

I think my comments were more geared towards these sessions:

Seems they would be talking about all the "shot on Red"...and the advancement from R1 to Epic/Scarlet

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4K (and beyond!) Update
Not too long ago, 4K was a standard we hoped to achieve in filmmaking. This session will cover 4K and beyond, illustrating the maturity of cinema cameras and commercial projectors operating at 4K, and tracking work towards even higher resolution at capture. MORE

Speakers: Jim Houston, Starwatcher Digital; Hugo Gaggioni, Sony Electronics Inc.; Yoshiaki Shishikui, NHK Science and Technology Research Laboratories; Craig Todd, Dolby Laboratories Inc.

 

[Marc Wielage]

Does anyone else find it interesting that several of the topics are clearly areas were Red has, is, and will dominate and not one representative from Red is on the panel of invited speakers....?

I would bet that the NAB people would've been glad to have Red on their various panels if they had offered.

I would agree, to omit Red from a discussion of 4K production and post is very foolish. I'll say this: Jim Houston is a very bright guy and knows Red workflow quite well.