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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 :)

Option Request :-)

Shane V8F said:
I have named my production company and my first RED "VIDEO8Film". I have been preaching the fact that one day we will all be shooting video cameras to make motion pictures. For years people thought I was crazy, but I new one day technology would get to a point where this would become a reality.

I started experimenting making video look like film back in 1989 by trying to do linear pull-downs from 60 fields to 48 fields, on a convergence 90 using U-matic tape. Trust me very difficult and time consuming. After collage I met a guy in 93 and started doing video post pull downs using a modified DVE box. We wanted to develop a camera, and had the concepts of progressive scan long before it ever came out in camera form.

We had no R&D money to build this camera back in 1994, so we went to the big Japanese camera manufactures to pitch our idea of the camera to them. Every one of them turned us down flat. The common response especially from Sony was that, "the Japanese like the look of video so why would they want to make a video camera look like film?. Interesting how a few years and a person like George Lucas will change the mind of what the Japanese like.

I predicted years ago that these events would eventually happen, and you would be amazed how many people thought I was crazy. I am very happy an independently minded person like Jim is the one making my dream a reality.

My RED Camera will be called "VIDEO8Film" because, ladies and gentlemen, in a few short years film will be a distant memory. The only problem is we need to come up with a new word for "Filming" as a reference to a movie production shoot. I am tired of being on sets shooting f900 or vericam and everyone talking about filming. PEOPLE WE ARE NO LONGER FILMING ANYTHING USING THESE DIGITAL VIDEO CAMERAS. With regards to the RED, it is hardly even a camera, it is more like a super computer that happens to capture moving images.

I have a few ideas for a name change, but it will take some time to get into the vernacular.

Eg.

VILM
VILMING


Any other ideas?
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Shooting. It's the only way. Digital or celluloid. And Movie, not film. Put it all together: Shooting a Digital Movie. No ambiguity whatsoever.
 
artbeatsart said:
Mine would be COD - camera obscura digitalis :shifty:
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Daniel, I was trying to think of something with "camera obscura" in the name, but you came up with a better name than any of the things I thought of. So, I tip my hat to you, sir.
 
Blue said:
Shooting. It's the only way. Digital or celluloid. And Movie, not film. Put it all together: Shooting a Digital Movie. No ambiguity whatsoever.
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Shooting == Guns.
Recording == Audio
Shooting (could) == photography.

Filming == Motion Picture Production

If I tell most people I know that I'm going to be shooting tommorow they'll think I'll be at a target range.

I don't even see how "shooting" means anything in relation to photography. What are you shooting? Nothing is being emitted or fired or projected... however you look at it. Shooting is as absurd of a term for the action of capturing images from a digital sensor as any other word. Even the word "Record" means essentially "to know by heart" or to "memorize". At best you could say that it means to write something down on paper. If you accept that a "record" is a disk which contains audio information then to say "record" audio means you're putting it onto a grooved disc. Which isn't the case with a DAT. Why should we have to come up with new words based on what sort of capture device is behind the lens? Why can't the meaning of the word we're already using simply evolve to include new technology?

Does this mean that a 2k Arri has to be called a "movie light" when used with a RED but a "film light" when the camera involved is shooting film? What if it's a mixed shoot?

I still use the word "Feathered" even though I've never used a bird's plumage in a dark room in my life.

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Back on topic:

The most perfect name for a camera is:
Daedalus

But I've already got dibs on it.
 
The idea to personalize the REDs is great and I strongly support it. My name is actually "Boris" but I guess I am a bit late for that :), though pretty flattered that RED Boris a kind made history along with the other named ones. If RED decide to personalize mine would be called IMMANUEL.
 
Red 400 issued "Spike"

Red 400 issued "Spike"

Red 400

I recieved my camera with a name already: "Spike"
I like that name, as it's gonna be a fiesty little bastard!


...by the way, the name was written on the packing slip, next to the camera body bar code....

Red
 
No, I have Spike as well. I think it means production model.
 
fphgrb01 said:
The idea to personalize the REDs is great and I strongly support it. My name is actually "Boris" but I guess I am a bit late for that :), though pretty flattered that RED Boris a kind made history along with the other named ones. If RED decide to personalize mine would be called IMMANUEL.
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Kant fan? :)

Now, if there was a RED prototype, called "Radoslav", that would really have been something, wouldn't it? :w00t:

Mine would be Евридика (Eurydice).

And I won't look back.
 
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