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San Francisco Bay Area Red Users

I just discovered this San Francisco Bay Area group; nice to have a group a little more localized than Northern California!

I'm RED #1693 here on the Oakland/Emeryville border; according to the last schedule I saw, my camera should arrive somewhere end of February - March.

I'm currently remodeling my building trying to get my stage reopened. It will be green/blue screen oriented for those of you interested in doing visual EFX. Hopefully the stage will be done this winter/spring and could be a good meeting place for a user group.

Donatello: I didn't get your email, but got your phone message; tried to call you and left message. I can get together with you pretty much anytime, but Jan. 6th (tomorrow!) would be ideal. I have an AJA I/O HD that would be of interest in testing with RED for a workflow possibility. I have a variety of standard Arri mount primes with a PL adaptor (ranging from 10mm to 500mm) that I'd like to try. If you have the RED 15mm rod adaptor, I'd like to see how well it interfaces with my RedRock Follow Focus. Thanks so much for offering access to your RED for something like this. Cheers!

Paul Kalbach
Artichoke Productions
www.artichokepro.com
 
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Paul Kalbach said:
I just discovered this San Francisco Bay Area group; nice to have a group a little more localized than Northern California!

I'm RED #1693 here on the Oakland/Emeryville border; according to the last schedule I saw, my camera should arrive somewhere end of February - March.

I'm currently remodeling my building trying to get my stage reopened. It will be green/blue screen oriented for those of you interested in doing visual EFX. Hopefully the stage will be done this winter/spring and could be a good meeting place for a user group.

Donatello: I didn't get your email, but got your phone message; tried to call you and left message. I can get together with you pretty much anytime, but Jan. 6th (tomorrow!) would be ideal. I have an AJA I/O HD that would be of interest in testing with RED for a workflow possibility. I have a variety of standard Arri mount primes with a PL adaptor (ranging from 10mm to 500mm) that I'd like to try. If you have the RED 15mm rod adaptor, I'd like to see how well it interfaces with my RedRock Follow Focus. Thanks so much for offering access to your RED for something like this. Cheers!

Paul Kalbach
Artichoke Productions
www.artichokepro.com
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Paul, I sent you an email.

I have been in contact with Donatello and am viewing the #103 cam on Thursday the 10th. I am also setting up for chroma key stage in my studio. Would love a chance to talk so maybe you can come on the 10th. Donatellos said it was still open and I was the only one so would be happy to share the slot with you at 10AM.

My contact info is in the email I sent you.

Regards,

Alan
 
Bob Franco said:
I'm on the Monterey Peninsula but I've been in contact with some Bay area people who are awaiting delivery on their cameras. Mine should be here by June.
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hey Bob :) how have you been? I should get mine around March. You'll have to come over and check it out.

and I'm looking forward to a SF REDuser group
 
Hell Yeah! We have to have a Bay Area RED user group!!!! Both Lee Utterbach and Videofax rental houses will be getting their camera's in the next week or so. Mike Burton and I will be hanging with Donatello this week to help those in the Bay with RED workflow and data management. There are alot of unique needs the Bay has and having a user group would be awesome as issues are still being worked out. I'm stoked to work with build 12 as Mike Burton and I dealt with 9,10 & 11 at LART in December.

So will we be BART????? Bay Area Red Testers hahahaha......
 
Brandon,

Just recovering from two days of no electricity ... and no RED forum! I'm glad to see so many people in Nor Cal getting Reds. Mine should arrive somewhere in the April-May time frame. I would like to see your camera when it comes.
Thanks,
Bob
 
Bay Area! I'm looking to get back into film/cinema to get some more experience since I've been out of it for a while. I'm located in the East Bay and am looking for user groups/production groups to work with and network with. Any ideas?

(I'm not a Red owner or reservation holder, but am willing and more that motivated to assist in any capacity on any Red Projects in the Bay area. I'm a software engineer by day and practice DIT and AC roles in low budget HD productions.)
 
Welcome rockoblm!

My cam won't come until maybe May or June depending on how schedule of shipping goes.

I did get a chance to spend some time with #103 (Thanks again Donatello!).

The camera is incredible. We definiteley need to get the networking up and running for the Bay Area users.

Until my camera gets in, I am working hard on developing contacts for work.

I am interested in doing aerial work and would love to get in contact with anyone that flies choppers that would like to put together a flight team. I fly fixed wing and plan to work with that but helicopter work is much more flexible.

Anyway, at some point we should see about a users group meeting for some RED tech talk!
 
Verticeus said:
Welcome rockoblm!

My cam won't come until maybe May or June depending on how schedule of shipping goes.

I did get a chance to spend some time with #103 (Thanks again Donatello!).

The camera is incredible. We definiteley need to get the networking up and running for the Bay Area users.

Until my camera gets in, I am working hard on developing contacts for work.

I am interested in doing aerial work and would love to get in contact with anyone that flies choppers that would like to put together a flight team. I fly fixed wing and plan to work with that but helicopter work is much more flexible.

Anyway, at some point we should see about a users group meeting for some RED tech talk!
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Love to get together and work or chat at a users group. As for the aerial work...we'll see. Glad to hear you got some hands on time with #103.
 
There is a Norcal chapter of the Digital Cinema Society which is meeting March 1st, if interested go to the site and rsvp. Most of the local Red owners and Dcinema professionals will be attending if your looking to network?

http://www.digitalcinemasociety.org/
 
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Dane Brehm said:
There is a Norcal chapter of the Digital Cinema Society which is meeting March 1st, if interested go to the site and rsvp. Most of the local Red owners and Dcinema professionals will be attending if your looking to network?

http://www.digitalcinemasociety.org/
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Kewl!

It think I can make that. Thanks for the info!
 
Hi all. This is my first time posting on the boards. Just wanted to say a quick "hello" to the other RED users in the SF Bay Area. I'm looking forward to meeting with you.

I'm a producer in San Francisco with an interest in social narratives and docs and a film professor at Pacific Union College in the Napa Valley. My RED #2972 is scheduled for delivery sometime around June (fingers crossed).

I was out of town last weekend, but did anyone make it to the Digital Cinema Society meeting in Sunnyvale? How was it? I'm interested in some of the workflow options that were discussed. Anyone know if they're posting clips from the event on their website? I thought I read they were going to do that.

Any other RED events in Bay Area coming up?
 
I was at the Sunnyvale DCS event on March 1. It was videotaped and they said it would be available in their video library (I don't know if that's online- maybe not). I didn't take any notes- just from memory:

James Mathers, the DCS president, had his Red there along with a big lens (mentioned it was 3x the price of the Red body) and did a quick demo. They had a large Barco 720p (?) projector with an intermittent vertical scaling problem and odd color, but the demo clip looked nice anyway. James is not a red "fanboy"- he mentioned that he preferred to shoot film, because it looks better- but nevertheless he seemed happy enough with his camera. He lights and exposes the same way he did for ISO 320 film.

Torrey from Silverado Systems also presented, they brought a Red as well. They have done some number, 6 or more, projects so far already on Red. One of them (Torrey or James, I forget) was asked several times if they'd had any problems with the hard drive dropping frames or the rolling shutter causing image troubles, and the answer was no. Torrey showed a short ("Paranoid") that was completed in just a few days.

There seemed like a good crowd there, maybe 75-100 people? I didn't count. Unfortunately I had to leave early so I missed the workflow presentation. I saw a very brief demo of Red Alert and Red Cine, but that info is already available online. I think they had Scratch there, but maybe that was after I left. I think around $50k+ was mentioned for Scratch but I wasn't paying attention because that's way out of my ballpark.

To tell the truth, if you've been following Reduser closely, I don't think you'd find much really new at the meeting. Probably this type of event is most useful for networking, and to see a Red in person if you haven't yet. Well, they had cookies and some t-shirts from the site host, NetApp.
 
Ditto What jbeale said.

I also had to leave early so missed the workflow and scratch info but scratch is out of my budget (especially since I am hocking "the baby shoes" to get my RED) :)

I agree that since I have been reading the reduser.net forum avidly for weeks now, I did not receive any new information. Since I already had the chance to see and play with a RED cam (thanks again Donatello!) there was not a lot of new information for me. Networking possibilities were maybe the most likely value to attending but since I had to leave early, that did not work out. Also, since I am trying to diet, I did not take advantage of the cookies either. :)
 
Hey Stepheneyer,

You have the camera just before mine. We should be gettin them about the same day!

Keep an eye on the user group thread, we are forming a Bay Area/NorCal group and should probably talk about meeting places and times (as soon as someone has a camera to bring along, can't really see everyone sitting around just talking about it) :)
 
jbeale - Thanks for the recap on the DCS event. Sounds like with 75-100 people there that it might have been easier to get your hands on the cookies than the camera. : ) I'll check the DCS website later to see if they post the clips from the meeting. Another downer is that Scratch is a PC only solution. I'm interested in learning more about any FCP workflows that are working well. I'll continue to check the threads for more info as well.

Verticeus - Yes, I saw that we're both having to learn the art of patience this Spring. I'll keep an eye out for any Bay Area/NorCal group notices. Thanks!

Stephen Eyer
 
I have my Red in SF now and you can rent it tomorrow ... you can pm, call, or email. ;-) There are plenty around today (I believe nine total I was told) in the immediate SF Bay Area in rental houses and with owner ops.

As for FCP workflow, RedTrip has been working for me for music videos and commercials. I've been using a film-like workflow by editing the proxies and coloring/rendering just the final. But it takes a little finesse and doesn't like speed changes created in FCP (which seem to be in every project). Of course, we have ways of dealing with such things. I think this camera involves a much tighter bond between production and post.

Always available if you want to talk it out ... or check it out.

Jason
 
DCS is a great organization for those who work in the digital space.

I find that its not the Cine guys that who have the trouble its the Post folks who need the help and don't like beta programs because they neither have the time or the money to wait/trouble shoot the RED workflow.
 
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