Spoiled shooting RAW...

[Shervin Mandgaryan]

I've just suddenly realized something that you obtain from shooting on RED or a RAW format... you simply CANNOT go back to anything else. Needless to say, I'm ridiculously spoiled to shooting RAW and so much so that I really cannot imagine what people are doing shooting on formats that essentially lock them in to what they've shot, nor could I ever go back to shooting non RAW for a project I may shoot on something other than the RED... it's just... so inferior.

What gets me is that why has it took a good 5 years for RAW formats to really become somewhat of an option if you're not shooting RED? I still don't understand how anyone can go back to shooting a locked codec that doesn't allow for any serious post work to be done... it just boggles my mind.

Thank you Jim for giving us such a tool that allows us to really change the image in post. You and the rest of the RED development team have spoiled me silly. Lets hope more RAW formats become available for filmmaking tools so I don't have to feel bad about shooting with another camera system.

 

[Hywel Phillips]

Yeh, coming from a stills background and having got the revelation of shooting raw a decade ago, shooting on video cameras felt like the dark ages.

Hiring a RED One to test out REDcode a year ago, I knew there was no way I would ever want to shoot a baked-in format ever again. So I ordered a Scarlet just after launch day. I kept my AF100 as a B-cam, which does have its occasional uses and since the Panasonic paid for itself many times over I don't mind chucking in harm's way. But damn- the footage sucks, especially if you haven't nailed the exposure and white balance EXACTLY right. Half a stop out and it falls apart.

REDcode is really smart. 6:1 compression using wavelets and keeping RGB separate to rebalance in post is the real breakthrough- as manageable as P2 cards but the flexibility of raw.

Cheers, Hywel.