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TECH HELP!

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AlexJones

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Hey Everyone!

So, I am a self taught cameraman. I never went to school for photography or video work but the work comes :) I have a question though... as like everyone else on here, I'm very particular about getting the best image possible coming form my Scarlet X. Is there some thread or video I can look at that teaches me how exactly to use the RED? I just shoot whatever looks best but it'd be nice to know more and when to use specifics and why. for example. People say you need to black shade before shooting a night scene and then you can up the iso to 2000 w/o much of an issue. Cool. How the hell did you know that? lol. I would've just opened up and bump the iso. no black shades.
 
I would suggest attending Reducation or taking a Red course from Abelcine, I have done both myself, as well as the 3D red course. But the general gist is shoot a wide negative, don't clip anything, watch your histogram and set your touch lcd correctly when it comes to exposure (I keep mine low as it gets on the touch screen, having too bright can throw off what you think your exposing for visually, but the histogram never lies, watch it). Some say shoot on the cameras native 320 ISO, but in Reducation they say shoot ISO 800, 800 is safer because it sets middle grey in the middle of the range, 320 can be used but with greater care as to not crush the blacks and it does give better highlight range on roll offs. Also in order to be filmic people shoot at a 180 degree relative shutter. Relative because it means it will be 180 relative to whatever frame rate one is using. Always shoot the least compression on your camera, buy more drives or mags if needed, but just do it at the least compression I don't care what others say about sweet spots. Edit with r3ds or conform to them if needed to cut with proxies, but make sure they are used when it comes time to export as to retain more quality. I try to make highest res outputs whenever possible and put my stuff through the least amount of compression upon compressions. Red has some great tutorials on their site, watch them all. Also go read the user manual end to end. Black balance constantly, every time you change camera settings on anything, should time allow. Make sure you run the camera first to make sure its warm before you do the black balances. thats all i can think of for now, but i'll try to add more when i'm not so exhausted
 
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