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[John Caballero]

Oh boy! I remember when Jim said, what was it? Oh. "The inmates are running the asylum". And just when you thought this forum couldn't get any wackier you have a new wave of digital cinema "experts" entering the door. Is this place gonna be like this for the next year? Oh boy again....

 

[antiquaeuropa]

Since when is 3K not digital cinema? If I'm not mistaken, most, if not all, digitial cinemas project in 2K.......... And, yeah, it has a fixed lense..... So what? I would be PSYCHED to have a Scarlet. RAW 3K @ up to 120 FPS for $3k! That's INCREDIBLE! Stop whining! So, the Scarlet's not for you. It is for a bunch of other people. Go get yourself a freakin' Red ONE and shut-up.

The concept of Digital Cinema is used to differentiate a certainly level of quality digital acquisition from more common video. The chief difference with Red with the size of the sensor (of course the RAW compression and 4k are great too). Red did not arbitrarily determine the size but rather borrowed the gold standard of size for serious cinema. 2/3" defies this concept of something apart from video. People who know little about cameras look at footage from these small chip video cameras and recognize it as not quite cinematic. Digital Cinema blurs that line. Scarlet won't.

 

[Garrett M. Smith]

3k RAW.
2/3" sensor.
HD-SDI.
120fps.
Built-in lens.
only $3000??!??!??!?

F$%@ YEAH!

Considering only 4 yrs ago, I paid more for the DVX - only 1/3", decimated color, and SD!

This is awesome. Pure and simply awesome. Nice work, RED. I'll line up to buy one when it's ready.

Garrett

 

[Jonathan Wheeler]

The problem I have with most of the complaints, is not that they are dissatisfied with the features of Scarlet as they stand, but that they act as if Jim and Co. have personally set out to ruin their aspiring film careers by shortchanging them on camera features. Lets take all this drama we're injecting into this forum and put it into some screenplays instead. Then when you can afford whatever you want to shoot with you can tell a great story!

 

[Hrvoje Simic]

Sure Red Code Raw is better, but just how much a difference do you think that your audience will see? That is a minimal part of the difference between cheap video and Hollywood compared to the vastly different depth of field.

Than you probably didn't watch your footage turn to s**t due to compression artifacts when your clients wanted it treated to "look more like film" ?

Do you understand the difference between raw workflow and compressed data workflow ?