RED Alert!

[Steve Freebairn]

Jim, if you guys need some formal QA work on REDCINE, just let me know. I was recently laid off from Intel (as a QA Analyst for Viiv - their media center app) and I'm just sitting around reading the Reduser forums all day. Feel free to put me to work.

I saw VIIV the other day and it was quite nice. Good job

 

[Kevin Halverson]

So where is the problem? Unless you got one of the first 50 cameras and you are only on PC, I don't see what the problem is.

Relax and take a deep breath.

In as much as I am in the middle of planing the post work flow for an episodic pilot (and hopefully series) this is a big concern for us. Accurate information is essential if I am going to make intelligent and informed recommendations.

I will be following this very closely and will "take a deep breath" when I know what I am going to be dealing with.

 

[Keith Nealy]

Friday is the day the earth stood still...

Friday is the day the earth stood still...

Congratulations to Jim and RED team for doing the impossible. Your vision, hardwork and dedication is going to change the lives of many people and change an entire industry.

The PC issue is important here also, as we have not used Apple computers since the "Lisa."

Maybe they polled the first 50 and found out they were mostly Mac users so that gave them a little more time to get it right.

That's fine with me. I can be patient... sort of. It would be nice to be able to see the first clips rolling off the initial cameras though.

Either way, Friday is the day the earth stood still... and watched the RED sunrise.

Aloha,

Keith

 

[Simon Smith]

So where is the problem? Unless you got one of the first 50 cameras and you are only on PC, I don't see what the problem is.

Relax and take a deep breath.

With the RED CINE, is this RED ALERT! necessary for what?

That's what I thought. Seems to me the RED Alert! is only a mini-app to outdate in the future with the RED Cine release.

 

[Ken K]

I saw VIIV the other day and it was quite nice. Good job

Heh, thanks! They actually canceled the media center app product, so that's why I got laid off. But, it was a great experience and my area of testing was the transcoding portion (codec -> codec), which was pretty cool.

 

[Casey Green]

That's what I thought. Seems to me the RED Alert! is only a mini-app to outdate in the future with the RED Cine release.

unless they plan on giving RED ALERT away and eventually selling REDCINE... ?

 

[Simon Blackledge]

Is exporting a RAW file from a raw camera app such as Lightroom the same theory? in which case it's pretty quick.. though I could be well wrong..
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[Corey Culp]

Good times!

 

[Jared VanLeuven]

Ditto, that'd be helpful to me as well.

Hey Jim, will it run on my G5... Or am I SOL?

 

[david farland]

No pun intended, third man, but
a) red need osx x86 pc operation system..............

Laguun,

Warning: Sanjin is famous for his PC/mac baiting so don't get sucked in by him!

Dave,

 

[Antoine Fabi]

You're crazy ! Something new almost every week !

Do you sleep sometime ?

Can't wait to receive my camera.

Best of luck for tomorrow !

Antoine

 

[Sanjin Jukic]

I think the camera automatically produces the qt wrappers.

We will need a codec for download on the PC though, otherwise the files won't play.

Attention>>Automatic reply:

PC guy is too fat and at the moment is not recommended and heathy for him to ingest and digest REDCODE.

 

[hsr]

congratulations for RED team members for bring out such sophisticated camera with really incredible features...thanx a lot...wish u all the best and success.......here we go redmaniacs...

 

[Benjamin Epps]

So can Red Alert wrap files for Mac based Avids? Or just FCP?

 

[Ronnie Silos]

Where is the "Auto Level" or "Enhance" magic button?

 

[Roberto B]

yeah.. PC worries aside.. let us kid a little bit with our own concerns.. where's the mojo button?

 

[laguun]

Laguun,

Warning: Sanjin is famous for his PC/mac baiting so don't get sucked in by him!

Dave,

i see.
We are pretty immune to platform wars and are pretty OS agnostic - as probably anyone with many years industry experience.
However, i have to share the impression, that most existing 4k houses, top-end VFX studios and -any- 4k D.I. facility use not only one OS.

If they are working on 4K, to be precise, there is one OS who is rather rare - i hope that will change in the future.

We like to use discreet flame/inferno/toxik/combustion/smoke/fire, quantel eQ/iQ/Pablo, sony vegas/xpri, dvs clipster/pronto/hydra, adobe cs, apple fcs, iridias speedgrade/framecycler, assimilate scratch, avid ds nitris/xpress pro, davinci and filmlight.

We own some of the above. So do several interested clients for shooting with red. Therefore i suppose we should invite them to test their workflows, schedules and budgets once redcine is ready.

 

[Graeme Nattress]

Very interesting screenshot of Red Alert! I think I understand just about all the controls except for "matrix", what does that do?

Matrix allows you to turn on or off the colour correction matrix. Matrix does colour space conversion, white balance, saturation etc. Choices for colour space are camera RGB (native camera space) and REC709.

The linearity of the output data is a seperate choice - you have linear light (no curve - straight line) REC709 (the gamma curve of the REC709 standard) and RED Log, which is a log curve. For 10bit DPX output, I'd recommend the LOG or the REC709. If you go out 16bit tiff, linear light is useful as then there's no curve, and being 16ibt, no precision loss either.

Graeme

 

[laguun]

Matrix allows you to turn on or off the colour correction matrix. Matrix does colour space conversion, white balance, saturation etc. Choices for colour space are camera RGB (native camera space) and REC709.

The linearity of the output data is a seperate choice - you have linear light (no curve - straight line) REC709 (the gamma curve of the REC709 standard) and RED Log, which is a log curve. For 10bit DPX output, I'd recommend the LOG or the REC709. If you go out 16bit tiff, linear light is useful as then there's no curve, and being 16ibt, no precision loss either.

Graeme

Hey Grame,

first of all: big congratulations!

if you find the time, i would like to ask 2 questions:
1) am i right when i understand red alert basicly as a redcine without edl-support?
2) redquick will be on windows and osx or is it osx exclusive?

 

[Graeme Nattress]

REDAlert!, for those who are asking, is Mac Intel only. REDAlert! is an extension of the app we've been using internally since the days of Frankie, which is why we're able to put it out now, when other apps and tools we're working on are not finished yet. I fully understand the concerns of the PC and Linux users out there. It's just like when people were asking about why the 300m prime first? Answer was, it was the first we had ready Similarly with RedAlert - it's the first we have ready and the rest will follow.

Graeme