Lee Skinner
Member
Hello everyone,
I'm brand new to this site, but I'm glad to see such an active community of Red camera enthusiasts.
Full-time, I am a motion graphics designer, but I'm simultaneously a budding music video director. I've held various positions on music video shoots and I've designed lots of graphics-based promo material for bands, but this past weekend I had my first chance to truly direct a music video.
The manager of the artist came to me via a referral from a friend of mine who they've known for years. They were looking for an affordable graphics-based music video for a song by a female pop singer. They were willing to pay, so I said I'd be willing to help them out. I expanded upon their idea and wrote up a more developed treatment, which they loved. They told me they knew a videography crew who would supply the camera and operator. I knew from the start it would be a skeleton crew, and I didn't know what kind of gear he would have. Days before the day of the shoot, this videographer finally gets a chance to email me back (turns out he had been shooting a feature all week) and informs me that he will be using a red one, a solid lighting kit, and a bunch of nice prime lenses. I wasn't expecting anything near this fancy, but I was thrilled to hear this.
So the shoot went great. I got everything shot that I needed. We had HD playback and the whole bit. Very exciting day.
But now, being the editor or motion graphics designer for this project, I'm faced with the task of working with the red footage. I've been told a bit about r3d files, Redcine, and such. But I'm wondering if there are any comprehensive introductory tutorials or guides out there for using 4K footage in post. I saw lots of Red tutorials on creativecow.net, but reading those made me feel like I was missing some kind of introductory course.
Anyone know where I can find something like that?
I'm brand new to this site, but I'm glad to see such an active community of Red camera enthusiasts.
Full-time, I am a motion graphics designer, but I'm simultaneously a budding music video director. I've held various positions on music video shoots and I've designed lots of graphics-based promo material for bands, but this past weekend I had my first chance to truly direct a music video.
The manager of the artist came to me via a referral from a friend of mine who they've known for years. They were looking for an affordable graphics-based music video for a song by a female pop singer. They were willing to pay, so I said I'd be willing to help them out. I expanded upon their idea and wrote up a more developed treatment, which they loved. They told me they knew a videography crew who would supply the camera and operator. I knew from the start it would be a skeleton crew, and I didn't know what kind of gear he would have. Days before the day of the shoot, this videographer finally gets a chance to email me back (turns out he had been shooting a feature all week) and informs me that he will be using a red one, a solid lighting kit, and a bunch of nice prime lenses. I wasn't expecting anything near this fancy, but I was thrilled to hear this.
So the shoot went great. I got everything shot that I needed. We had HD playback and the whole bit. Very exciting day.
But now, being the editor or motion graphics designer for this project, I'm faced with the task of working with the red footage. I've been told a bit about r3d files, Redcine, and such. But I'm wondering if there are any comprehensive introductory tutorials or guides out there for using 4K footage in post. I saw lots of Red tutorials on creativecow.net, but reading those made me feel like I was missing some kind of introductory course.
Anyone know where I can find something like that?
