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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 :)

REDONE Collaborative Free Training- LOS ANGELES

Amazing demo! Thanks, Vlad, for coordinating setting this up and kudos to everyone that helped put it together, especially Ketch, who brought half the production equipment in LA.

The more I see of the Red the more I can't wait to get my hands on it! John Cordell brought his Red #14 and walked us through the menu items, giving us a feel for what it's like using the camera's features like the false color map, which when turned on translates light levels into colors so that, for example, blown out areas are displayed as bright red and very low intensity areas are displayed as blue. I think it was Tony Graf who commented that this feature made it a breeze to light the green screen for that demo, which, by the way, was truly impressive. The green-screen key was pulled in Shake, which gave a quick and clean matte. The individual strands of the subject's hair were clearly visible and weren't degraded. Everyone who saw it was blown away at how clean it was with so little work.

Mark Mannschreck (Manny) brought Red #41 and a lot of his gear and tested out a lot of lenses with the Berger mount, and let a lot of us get first-hand experience using the camera. Ted Schilowitz, from Red, gave a briefing on how demos like this were a key part of how Red is making the camera known around the world -- which means there's definitely going to be more in the future.

And thanks also to Neil Smith, Aaron Peak and the other RPMPost guys for sharing their facility and their expertise in workflow and color grading. It was very educational

Excellent day! Let's do it again!
 
mdo said:
The individual strands of the subject's hair were clearly visible and weren't degraded. Everyone who saw it was blown away at how clean it was with so little work.
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And that was the Canon lens right?

Was it possible to test pulling focus with the Birger/Canon?
 
KETCH ROSSI said:
Hey Sam,

it was a pleasure for me to bring my gear and I enjoy meeting everyone there and seen the generosity of the RED owners, as well as to begin with those that organized and hosted the event, great spending time with you at lunch, we will do it again and remember when you get your camera fill free to give me a call you can used any time.

Thanks again Vlad for the invite, truly a great day spent at the event.

Ciao,

KETCH ROSSI
www.KETCHFRAME.com
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Ketch, the pleasure was all mine. LOL Your energy is a life force on par with a tornado! It's power is awe inspiring and undeniable to witness.... just don't get in it's way!

Thanks for lunch, next time it's on me.
 
joelnet said:
And that was the Canon lens right?

Was it possible to test pulling focus with the Birger/Canon?
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It was the canon.

I may be mistaken, but I don't believe that Pulling focus was possible with the Birger unit we had. It was an early development unit and needed a laptop to control limited features.

That said, I think the Birger unit looks very promising.
 
It was a real pleasure meeting all you dudes. It's funny how you've got a certain picture in your head of what fellow redusers might look like... then it's always COMPLETELY different. Especially Ketch being all Buffed out. Thanks Vladimir, Matt Uhry... RPM... Ted and Sean from Red! Ketch, Sam, Bruce, etc... wish I coulda joined y'all at Jones... let's setup that narrative scene we were talking about!

I'm posting 4K PNG's of the GS stuff in Ketch's lens test post. The Canons look f#$%ng great (and I'm a nikonian)

update here's some 4k png's

http://www.reduser.net/forum/showpost.php?p=95278&postcount=22
 
joelnet said:
And that was the Canon lens right?

Was it possible to test pulling focus with the Birger/Canon?
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No the birger was connected by usb to a laptop and we had to give it line commands to change aperture and focus. All the Green Screen and other shots were done with Ketch's canons wide open because open is the only aperture we could verify.
 
Manny said:
It was a real pleasure meeting all you dudes. It's funny how you've got a certain picture in your head of what fellow redusers might look like... then it's always COMPLETELY different. Especially Ketch being all Buffed out. Thanks Vladimir, Matt Uhry... RPM... Ted and Sean from Red! Ketch, Sam, Bruce, etc... wish I coulda joined y'all at Jones... let's setup that narrative scene we were talking about!

I'm posting 4K PNG's of the GS stuff in Ketch's lens test post. The Canons look f#$%ng great (and I'm a nikonian)
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Hey Manny,

it was more then a pleasure meeting you yesterday, you are a very generous and selfless person and I'm very glad we share this much, you mentioned how it was almost funny that been your camera you were standing back wile every one was playing with it (including my self).

We should definatelly work together on the narrative story as I already have something in mind and I spoked with my body Joe(the owner of the very nice restaurant in Lake Elsinore) and we are a go any time to shoot in it.

Just let me know when you can come down to my place and we organized.

A, did you call me buffet up? (thanks) I try very hard to keep in shape given the heavy doses of daily medications I have to take.

Again great meeting you and thanks for bringing #41 and letting me use my lenses on it.

Ciao,

KETCH ROSSI
www.KETCHFRAME.com
 
Sam Druckerman said:
It was the canon.

I may be mistaken, but I don't believe that Pulling focus was possible with the Birger unit we had. It was an early development unit and needed a laptop to control limited features.

That said, I think the Birger unit looks very promising.
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I was the individual that was 'tethered' to the Birger mount with my computer. It is a promising product and, when fully developed, should be very useful. Right now, there isn't much of a user interface, its just a serial communication path with ASCII as the protocol. With a fully developed UI, I think it will be very useful indeed. I can foresee a lot of things that could be done (breathing compensation, motion control interface, etc). From the very few hours I spent with it yesterday, I already have a number of ideas.

I want to pass along my thanks to everyone involved yesterday. Had a blast and it was nice to put a face to a few of the screen names.

Kevin
 
KETCH ROSSI said:
Hey Manny,

it was more then a pleasure meeting you yesterday, you are a very generous and selfless person and I'm very glad we share this much, you mentioned how it was almost funny that been your camera you were standing back wile every one was playing with it (including my self).

We should definatelly work together on the narrative story as I already have something in mind and I spoked with my body Joe(the owner of the very nice restaurant in Lake Elsinore) and we are a go any time to shoot in it.

Just let me know when you can come down to my place and we organized.

A, did you call me buffet up? (thanks) I try very hard to keep in shape given the heavy doses of daily medications I have to take.

Again great meeting you and thanks for bringing #41 and letting me use my lenses on it.

Ciao,

KETCH ROSSI
www.KETCHFRAME.com
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Reading this thread is a good motivator. I hope that users in Toronto can catch a bit of this spirit.

David
 
khmuse said:
I was the individual that was 'tethered' to the Birger mount with my computer. It is a promising product and, when fully developed, should be very useful. Right now, there isn't much of a user interface, its just a serial communication path with ASCII as the protocol. With a fully developed UI, I think it will be very useful indeed. I can foresee a lot of things that could be done (breathing compensation, motion control interface, etc). From the very few hours I spent with it yesterday, I already have a number of ideas.

I want to pass along my thanks to everyone involved yesterday. Had a blast and it was nice to put a face to a few of the screen names.

Kevin
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Kevin, I didn't put together that you were khmuse!

My bad for not stating it in my previous post......

Kevin is rock star!

We would not of had any canon shots at all if it wasn't for the talent and skill Kevin, aka khmuse, displayed. He earns "Hero of the day" for hacking into the Birger.

Great meeting you, and thanks so much!
 
KETCH ROSSI said:
Hey Manny,

it was more then a pleasure meeting you yesterday, you are a very generous and selfless person and I'm very glad we share this much, you mentioned how it was almost funny that been your camera you were standing back wile every one was playing with it (including my self).

We should definatelly work together on the narrative story as I already have something in mind and I spoked with my body Joe(the owner of the very nice restaurant in Lake Elsinore) and we are a go any time to shoot in it.

Just let me know when you can come down to my place and we organized.

A, did you call me buffet up? (thanks) I try very hard to keep in shape given the heavy doses of daily medications I have to take.

Again great meeting you and thanks for bringing #41 and letting me use my lenses on it.

Ciao,

KETCH ROSSI
www.KETCHFRAME.com
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For Ketch to be calling ME generous is a huge compliment. I don't think people understand how cool this dude is. He brought SO much stuff to RPM for the benefit of others! Italian generosity at it's finest...

Thanks again Ketch, and let's SET THAT SHOOT UP!
 
khmuse said:
I was the individual that was 'tethered' to the Birger mount with my computer. It is a promising product and, when fully developed, should be very useful. Right now, there isn't much of a user interface, its just a serial communication path with ASCII as the protocol. With a fully developed UI, I think it will be very useful indeed. I can foresee a lot of things that could be done (breathing compensation, motion control interface, etc). From the very few hours I spent with it yesterday, I already have a number of ideas.

I want to pass along my thanks to everyone involved yesterday. Had a blast and it was nice to put a face to a few of the screen names.

Kevin
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Hey Kevin! I also didn't realize that you were KHMUSE! This guy really knows his stuff - It was a pleasure to meet you (we were tethered together most of the day!)
 
Manny said:
For Ketch to be calling ME generous is a huge compliment. I don't think people understand how cool this dude is. He brought SO much stuff to RPM for the benefit of others! Italian generosity at it's finest...

Thanks again Ketch, and let's SET THAT SHOOT UP!
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Hey Manny,

take it easy now, you make me blush!

We can set up any time you want, just let me know and I will organize the shoot in this end, plus doing a specific post should get as the rest of what we need.

Ciao,

KETCH ROSSI
www.KETCHFRAME.com
 
Hey Sam, Ketch & Manny...

Thanks for the kind words guys. I love being challenged to come up with an on the spot hack, just glad I was able to help out (can't really help it, I am an engineer nerd type). I think that this mount has a lot of potential, would love to assist with getting it a bit more user friendly.

Thanks too for facilitating my test. Graeme is pulling in the three .r3d files we captured off my server right now. Should be able to validate the tests later today and have results in the next few days.

Kevin
 
I believe that Jim has clearly stated that he didn't want images of the "Magic Focus" UI released yet as it is still fairly early in it's development cycle. I can say, that from what I have seen, it will be an extremely useful tool.

Someone might want to let them know that some of these images are not really "in the clear" yet and probably should be pulled down.
 
Laco Zamba said:
Was magic focus working?

Maybe it's only beta version, but can somebody explain how it works?
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Hey Laco - yeah you gotta edit these off your post! I wasn't supposed to let anyone take pics of the LCD with alpha software. Thanks.
 
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