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Scarlet for future film makers

Elmer Tenkink

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Forget my English writing. (thats why i'm following reduser for years but hardly post)

The impact of red into the film industry is allready very big.
With the new generation starting to roll out..it will take over the industry.

Scarlet

I think the scarlet will be a great investment for future film makers.
A new generation of film makers will experiment, explore and develop new ways of film making and delevering. Thanks to red that it makes a pro and still more affordable camera, by pushing new ideas faster forward.
As the next generation film makers will be inspiried to. They will give red a lot of love back.

12 year olds kids will steal dads scarlet to make that backyard movie.
And there might just be turning out a new steven spielberg behind that scarlet.

Some scarlet might break, some might wear out...in the future.

But over 30 year... that next big director is looking over his sholder with a smile. Looking at his old dad's camera , an in goldplated scarlet 8X Fixed
 
Excuse me for my silly question, But I'm wondering.. is the SCARLET in the market now ? I mean can I buy it ? because when I just checked Red.com its says " coming soon "

and when I go to youtube or vimeo trying to find a videos for the camera I find nothing.
 
Sorry Scarlets not out yet... Hopefully by late summer. There are many interview on youtube and vimeo but no test footage except for a 5 second clip of a lion eating meat. By the way I agree completely, Scarlet will help change this industry forever and hopefully for the better!!!
 
It's just a camera. My brother and I made tons of home movies on my dad's VHS camcorder, and we didn't have a way to edit, so all the editing was done in camera.

By the time the kids of today grow up to be the filmmakers of tomorrow, the Scarlet will be old and outdated.
 
Brad Webb said:
It's just a camera. My brother and I made tons of home movies on my dad's VHS camcorder, and we didn't have a way to edit, so all the editing was done in camera.

By the time the kids of today grow up to be the filmmakers of tomorrow, the Scarlet will be old and outdated.
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Agreed. They'll probably laugh that it was not 3D and not a cellphone size...

Funny enough, I prefer the old Super 8 to the VHS tapes of my youth...
 
Thank you Paul for your fast replay.
but is there any expected price for Scarlet ? and what's the differences between Scarlet, RED ONE and Epic ? and as I heard that Scarlet will be much Cheaper than Red one and Epic, is that right?
 
Hammam Abdullah said:
Thank you Paul for your fast replay.
but is there any expected price for Scarlet ? and what's the differences between Scarlet, RED ONE and Epic ? and as I heard that Scarlet will be much Cheaper than Red one and Epic, is that right?
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Scarlet Fixed is projected to cost $6000. Epic has a larger sensor and higher redcode rates and more.
 
ESTIMATED PRICING
Scarlet 2/3 inch sensor - 6,000
epic s full sensor - 12,000
epic x full sensor - mid 20s

All these cameras shoot raw footage!
The differences are mainly between resolution, frame rates, and a few other things.
Red one MX shoot at 4k resolution at 1-60 FPS and 1-120 FPS at 2k
Epic x will shoot at 5k resolution at 1-120 FPS
Epic s will shoot at 5k resolution but can only shoot at 1-30 or 60 FPS and will have features somewhat limited.
Scarlet will shoot at 3k Resolution at 1-120 FPS

yes scarlet will be a cinematic camera, just not as much resolution as the others.
 
The diffrents today is that there so much development going on. It's more getting a community thing. As people share, explore and develop new ways both in tech, narrative, knowledge and creative freedom. The game changer will be how these new camera will be used, that will be the biggest change. And yes we all have been wrestling with vhs camaras/recorders, but mainly on or own.
 
Keep in mind that these quoted prices are not including everything you would need for a working kit.

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Yeah thats true, you could spend thousands more to get a good set up. The prices i listed were for the cameras only, not including lenses and red drives, ssds and other pieces. Luckily for Scarlet you can get the fixed version with the 8x lens attached.
 
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Brad Webb said:
It's just a camera. My brother and I made tons of home movies on my dad's VHS camcorder, and we didn't have a way to edit, so all the editing was done in camera.
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That is one reason I put our in-house DI software on the internet for "anyone" (within the scope of the EULA) can use to make "real" feature films on cheep junk PC they can pick up. I find PC on the sidewalk and monitors just walking around the streets. My system can edit 6K+ on junk computers nothing high cost involved and since TB disks are cheep now, even storage is not out of reach.

Scarlet will be a great camera but maybe a bit out of the range of young people in developing countries. There may be lower cost 2K+ cameras out this year, so shooting 16mm is going to be something of the past soon I would think.

BTW "anyone" can get a low cost video digitizer card, like $15 on ebay, to convert VHS or NTSC/PAL into H.264, then make that into an uncompressed AVI, then convert that into BMP frames and WAV audio to learn film editing and grading (and ADR/Foley and sound mixing) at almost no cost using my DI/NLE/MIX software. They can even output to 16mm or 35mm film using an old projector as a stop motion camera and shooting off a LCD monitor with some rosco #22 filter to have a print to send to a festival, if they show prints any longer... just add some motors and micro switches, hook solid state relays to the parallel port and presto...

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/03/03/MVFD1HM0AI.DTL

Quote: [The debate about the merits of video versus film may be a heated one in Hollywood, but at the institute, the first school in the nation to offer 100 percent high-definition training, the issue is all but moot. Not only is digital the way of the future, says Kriwanek ("I give film 5, 10 more years at most"), the school's Bay Area, tech-centric locale uniquely positions it to ride the rising wave of media digitization. It's easy - no more loading and unloading film, no more guessing if a shot came out well, no more time spent searching for a specific take. But most importantly, it's cheap. Any kid with a camera and a laptop who can raise $50,000 - or even less, some would say - can shoot and edit a feature film]

Notice that he did not say the kid could get the film shown to the public (in a theatre)... but I guess there is always YouTube?
 
Nick D said:
Funny enough, I prefer the old Super 8 to the VHS tapes of my youth...
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Super-8 was great, but too much of the mechanism relied on the manufacturing consistency of the cartridges. It never had the registration stability of the old regular 8mm system. I've got a Canon Double Super 8 camera. Now that's a nice 8mm system. Steady as a rock and with excellent optics.

But yeah, any kind of film was WAY nicer than VHS. :thumbup1:
 
Future filmmakers are only people going to be able to use Scarlet as it's not out for current filmmakers.
 
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