RED ONE M IPP2 Stills

[Michael Redden]

Finally got around to testing out IPP2 with my RED One M for a quick series of interviews for an astronomy book author. Even though I wish I'd had a little more control over the lighting, I gotta say I'm still pretty impressed with RED's never ending ability to squeeze even more of their color science.

ISO 400
Nikon Nikkor 50mm

 

[Karim D. Ghantous]

Nothing wrong with those images! I like it. I dare say that it's filmic.

 

[Michael Wahba]

How'd you light? Beautiful!

 

[Michael Redden]

Thank you, Karim! "Filmic" is a huge compliment!

 

[Michael Redden]

How'd you light? Beautiful!

Thank you! It's mostly available light. Sunlight through a window behind me camera right with a little diffusion as the key. The windows behind him motivated a small LED, tucked in the office camera left as a kicker. The warm spots on the back wall in the office (behind the printer and on the bookshelf) were two of those little touch night lights, hidden behind objects just to break up the light pattern a little.

I actually wanted to far side key this but the client saw the monitor, liked it and said "Let's go" lol

 

[Aaron michaels]

First of all thank you for the test footage and posting these pix. I own the R1 Mx also and the Epic-MX but I haven't touched them in years due to job and life changes. My Epic is still brand new LoL...but RED continues to make it all better when new color science works on the so called outdated and the new. I do have plans to shoot this 2018 and test resolve, IPP2 and my many Nikon lenses.
Thanks again

 

[Michael Redden]

Thanks! Now you’ve got some extra motivation to dust those cameras off wiith IPP2! You’ll have to keep me updated so I can check out your tests too

 

[Brian Timmons]

The images look great.
I think some people who derided the earlier RED sensors (complaints of skin tones) did not realize
how much RED's color science was a work in progress in the early days of the company.

IPP2 shows just how good Mysterium and Mysterium X were, they just needed time to
work out the color science and the evolution to the current IPP2 illustrates this.

This is another reason it would be good for RED to stick with REDCODE RAW and not a
potential industry standard like ProRes Raw (though the latter codec is a godsend for other
camera platforms).

Brian Timmons
BRITIM/MEDIA

 

[Michael Redden]

Thanks, Brian! I think you’re absolutely right. I think everyone tends to forget just how far ahead of their time those sensors were and still are. They were literally the bleeding edge of technology. In fact so much so, that they’re still figuring out how to milk them

 

[Adam Montville]

IPP2 makes me kind of wish I still had my RED ONE MX laying around.

 

[Brian Timmons]

IPP2 makes me kind of wish I still had my RED ONE MX laying around.

Believe or not my RED ONE MX is still getting me gigs.
That camera is still no joke and I actually prefer the RED ONE audio capability over the new REDs (4 audio inputs is very useful I hope RED fixes this).
Like where things are going with Gemini though.

Brian Timmons
BRITIM/MEDIA
RED ONE MX #1825

 

[Vithya Sharma]

Awesome you have video link?

 

[BrendanLeahy]

Finally got around to testing out IPP2 with my RED One M for a quick series of interviews for an astronomy book author. Even though I wish I'd had a little more control over the lighting, I gotta say I'm still pretty impressed with RED's never ending ability to squeeze even more of their color science.

ISO 400
Nikon Nikkor 50mm

These look great! Mind showing what it was before (what you would have applied back in the R1 days)?

 

[Robert Bahou]

Your shots look fantastic, I definitely second the comment about them being 'filmic'/

Question: I only just got an Epic MX so I'm still learning the ropes. What do I have to do to start working with this colour science (IPP2).

Thanks

 

[Adam Montville]

Your shots look fantastic, I definitely second the comment about them being 'filmic'/

Question: I only just got an Epic MX so I'm still learning the ropes. What do I have to do to start working with this colour science (IPP2).

Thanks

Download the latest LUTs from: https://www.red.com/downloads/58de98eff77f300ebe00053f

In post, change your color space to: REDWideGamutRGB / Log3G10 (Instead of REDcolor4/RedGamma4), and apply the LUT that you want, which corresponds to the contrast, and highlight rolloff that most pleases you.

Pretty much it! Most programs use the full IPP2 SDK now, so Resolve and Premiere will use all of IPP2 features (such as highlight extension, and improved demosiac). I still use the LUTs, as for some reason, I feel like it's giving me better results than selecting the contrast / highlight rolloff options in Resolve (even though, theoretically, they should look the same?)

Learn more here: http://www.reduser.net/forum/showthread.php?161969-RED-IPP2-Introduction
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=giOzn2y6_Q4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3O9WqWnae0

 

[Michael Redden]

Awesome you have video link?

Hey, sorry for the delay responding. I just got back from a ten day shoot in L.A. The videos are on the client’s patreon so I’ll reach out to them tomorrow and find out if they mind me sharing a private link for the forum.

 

[Stefan Antonescu]

Looks really beautiful. 'Cinematic' is the first word that came to mind.