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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 :)

Red in OZ

how was the screening? was it a one off event or is it left in place? wonder if you hear anything on HD theatre development downunder
 
david farland said:
.... if the group of red oceanic guys / and girls split from the downunder red users group, we can have a GROG & DRUG night......hey I'm just trying to help!
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wow. I step away from the forum for a couple of days and look what happens! :glare:

very cool. the DRUG idea is actually quite cool.

nice one DJTech!
 
Websites..

Websites..

Mike,
I was looking for your reference about starting up a workflow issues site. anymore on that?
It sounds a great idea. I've got lots to discuss....question really, around that, not so much from a problematic perspective but from a choices in workflow and looking at where the quality hits are.
I was a bit surprised when this guy posted a simple request here and there was so much conjecture or how to output from red to dvpro50.

Also very much like Rocketeer's site. On something completely different...I was thinking, but I guess it's too hard (without a commercial or love perspective) of a daily summary of what's gone on, on the reduser forum.
You want people knocking down a door to your site, give 'um the up to date skinny of what's going on/revealed on reduser forum.

Whatever's done site wise by different folks, I'd love to see mirrors?...or links to these sites on the local red user site. Like a frame on home page with the title, summary etc going off to full information.

Also, Seth's talking about having a faq plus I'm assuming some overall explanations of redcamera and redcine workflow..dunno, on a user group site.

Hopefully with the blessing of group, a value add site will be created.
This as well as a bucket load of other things i.e. user name/assoc stuff etc are obviously all topics for us to discuss and agree.

Back to the more mundane...love lots of the name suggestions.
I guess we could give it a few more days/week and then vote. Thoughts?

On the user group site suggestions, in addition to stuff above I'd personally like to see:
password protected member contact list/ camera availability calendar(need to talk on this one???)
local 4K post services.
Other red workflow presentations/technical/ education information
RED accessory product summary
Events

As Rocketeer mentioned it'll be interesting to see if Australasian distributer/service agent is appointed for region.
However where as I expect a lot of overlap, that will be from a red corporate down, where the user group is back other way.

Back to that name....

Dave,


ps: and I'm aware we missed our group telephone hookup...next week?
 
david farland said:
Don't know whose interested ( i am) in starting a local Red thread with view to sharing local info, resources, bit of networking, helping out in emergencies, or just say hi once every 6 months.

DF
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very interested in joining a community of aussie red owners and users... to be able to help each other out
 
Thanks David, I started the blog as a repository for Red info after I could never find the details of a post I had read. I wanted somewhere central I could refer to. The wheels have come off after spending 10 days in the States and offline.
The noise to signal ratio on this site has increased dramatically making it harder to find the gold. And more often than not you find yourself posting "Yeah what Mike Curtis said" :)

On Wednesday at NAB I spoke to Stuart English about international support and the only option (at that stage) he could offer up was returning gear to the States.

If they do apoint agents how much access will they be given to the camera?
Will local servicing be viable? What degree of access will technicians be given to the Red? Will agents just be given spare bodies, VF and LCD as swap outs?
Will they have to buy them?

But to put it in perspective, we carry 2 Sony F900R's. Sony NZ don't carry a body in case we have a fault. I have to cross hire from another rental company (good week the 2nd camera is working too!). The Sony warranty won't cover that cost. But...I do have access to the Sony Engineer...but parts will more than likely come out of Hong Kong(our support hub now) or Japan. 2-5 days freight max. Let's be optimistic and say 5 days to diagnose the fault, get parts and repair. The cross hire has cost me 10k. Ouch.

Any Red return to the states is going to be 10 days minimum. The upside is the cross hire won't cost you your first born.

For us and other international owners it is important we are given some indication of what will be in place for support while the camera is under warranty (which I don't think Red have indicated a length of time for warranty)
 
Let’s not lose momentum in this user group.

Here’s a summary of the suggested names so far:

REDANZ
ANZRUG
RUGANZ
ARUG
COLOR CLUB
REDAUS
REDEANZ
ANZRUA
DURUG (Down Under Red User Group)
DRUG (Downunder Red User Group)
REDPACIFIC
RED Indians - REDINDIANZ - REDINDEANZ
ADCRUG (Australiasian Digital Cinema - A RED user group)

Any more suggestions before we vote?
 
Rocketeer,
I'm curious to know, will the Wellington branch of Rocket Rentals be offering Red hire in the near future?
 
Sorry I have been on a viper shoot...
I love DRUG but I fear Spam filters will stop any emails so

PacificRED or

ANZRUG sounds direct?

mike
 
Red Oceanic Cinema

Red Oceanic Group


The name should also describe our goals and pursuits as a group.
….er, okay the above doesn't really….but ‘user group’ strikes me as a bit limiting and lame.

Dave,
 
david farland said:
Red Oceanic Cinema

Red Oceanic Group


The name should also describe our goals and pursuits as a group.
….er, okay the above doesn't really….but ‘user group’ strikes me as a bit limiting and lame.

Dave,
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I agree,

I've set up the web server (with a temp domain name) and installed vBulletin (same software as reduser). The server is online, and I've created a temp skin etc. It's all waiting for a proper domain name, and some ideas.

This is what I'd like to see happen here (purely self orientated goals). I've said most of this before, I just want to list it all here so that everyone is clear on what I'd like to offer/see from this endeavour..

I'm up for hosting the website/forum, and I'd like it to be a place that all of us down under folk can go to to collate and talk all things Red. BUT I'm also interested in not limiting it to Red only. Digital Cinema yes, but I don't see why we should limit ourselves to only listing Red news. I see it more as a DVXuser downunder, with a bit of HDforindies thrown in in the way of collated articles and info that is easy to trawl thru, rather than only 50+ page threads which take hours to read. For instance, I am in negotiations to Post Supervise (posssibly) on an Australian feature, and if we can't get the RED in time, then the second choice is the Viper, In which case I'd be interested in sharing info in Viper workflows etc.

In this vein, I'd prefer the name to have 'Digital Cinema' in it, rather than Red. Of course Red will be the main focus anyway, this approach just leaves us with the most amount of options in the future.

Now, I don't know if the website name *needs* to be the same as the User group name. i.e If for instance we call the website "Oceanic Digital Cinema" (My current favourite), then we can still have section on the board named "Oceanic Red User Group" or what have you.. (this is just an option, I would like to know what everyone would want from the board in terms of content.)

So, I just wanted to make sure we're all on the same page here.

My main preference for choosing a name for the actual site (as opposed to the group), is that it is not limiting, it's descriptive, and that the actual domain is available.

eg :

I like "Oceanic Digital Cinema", but "odcinema.net" is taken.
I like "Digital Cinema Oceanic", (although not as much) but "digitalco.net" is taken. (edit: digitalco.net is NOT taken, the .com is)
"odcforum.net" is available .. but I don't really like the word forum in the url (again, limiting)

Let me know what you all think.
Seth.
 
Id prefer RED users only thanks. Otherwise it will be just another DV users group

We had a meeting with 3 REDs in Perth on Friday. Hopefully we will be swapping info, ideas and possibly gear once our REDs arrive.
 
Glad you agree Terry. I don't think it will become anything like dvxuser. What we're after is something that serves our needs as a local community. I don't see why we should limit ourselves in any way. The important factor here for me is "local"..

As I said, I will be pushing the RED hard. I am also more interested in talking RED shop than anything else, but, there will be projects that we will all be involved in that are not RED related, in which case it would be good to have the option.

odcnetwork .. not bad, shame the .net is not avail.

Financing and distribution options, excellent idea ! .. A perfect example of something we should be able to discuss.

Keep em coming ! Ideas, name suggestion s (website AND usergroup), comments ..
 
David and anyone else in Sydney who wants to hire their kit out or needs access to extra / backups cams:

I'd suggest talking to the Camera Collective, 4 doors up from Lemac. They have the infastructure already in place to handle this kind deal I think and already ship cameras and kit all around the Pacific region. You should find them rather RED aware.
 
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