Unpacking RED
If you havnt heard of RED then you have truly been living under rock these past 3 years. The marketing for the era alterting digital cinema camera has been nothing short of a superb PR archievment, so much so that the achievement of actually delivering the RED camera itself is almost secondary.
With working models now in the field and in production there's nothing to deny the RED ONE a solid place in the history of cinematic media. But if you have in mind a camera you simply pull out of a box like a Sony, Canon or Panasonic then thinking again. The Red is a fundementally different beast, a Lego-Set of add-ons and extensions to form an almost infinate assembly of options.
Forunately you can watch someone else go through the sorting/sifting/searching motions of deciphering the RED.
Mike Curtis over at the new (and increasingly impressive ProVideo Colalition) is making public his RED adventure in a very step-by-step fashion. This first part is a detailed look at opening the box on the RED. (its actually far more interesting than it sounds).
Of course once Mike has unpacked the RED ONE and managed to point it in the right direction to film soemthing the fun will really begin as we get an insight into RED workflow. Its fairly certain this aint no DV/ Firewire affair.
The Editors Lounge held a recent shin-dig seminar on the topic of RED workflow and this PDF covers some good detail on 2k and 4k post process with RED and REDCINE.
Posted at 12:00AM Mar 14, 2008
by Mike Jones in video |
