Why no 1080 as shooting ratio

[Charles Angus]

Sounds like your options are these:

Shoot on an HD camera.

Convince client to use a different post house.

Talk to someone at the post house and hammer out a workflow (ideally by putting some test footage through it) so you can shoot RED pain-free.

 

[Jannard]

Shoot highest quality and then deliver the best of what is asked for.

Not wanting to be redundant... shoot Quad HD and do a 1/2 res output. That will give your client what they really want. The best results. This shouldn't be very difficult to explain to anyone.

Jim

 

[Milan Spasic]

The answer to your client should have been simple: It's because R1 is not a video camera.

No client would ask to shoot 1080p video on a 35mm film camera..... or maybe they would?

 

[Simon N]

That was an interesting day.... I managed to get to speak to the post house who were asking me all sorts of strange questions and saying that they didn't want to be handling massive amounts of data (When i told them it was going to be about 100Gb they were concerned which then concerned me !)

I then spoke to another guy who when I posed the question about his experience with Red workflow said he'd only really dealt with it on Features - enough said ?

I think I learnt that if the client wants something that doesn't make sense there is usually someone with little knowledge behind it pulling the strings.

We shot 4k and are going to let them work it out!