Red Camera Discussion Forum

[Jim Capillo]

Ran across this recently:

Hello everyone,

If you are not already aware, there is a new company called Red Digital Cinema that has announced plans for building a new Digital Video Camera that will be capable of recording images in incrediblly high 4K and 2K Raw and compressed resolutions and have the image quality, color fidelity, and variable frame rates of 35mm Film. The camera will also be capable of traditional HD resolutions.

This may or may not be of interest to you depending on your type of productions, but I find it very interesting and believe this camera has the potential to become a disruptive technology in the world of Filmmaking and Video Production.

Recently, I attended a screening of some of the first 4K footage shown in L.A. on a Sony 4K projector, and it was outstanding.

What makes this even more incredible, if they pull it off, is that they are going to be selling the basic camera starting at around $17,500.

For those of you interested, I have started a new website that will follow the developments of the Red Digital Cinema company and provide a place for Red camera enthusiats to network and share information and experiences.

If you are interested, please stop by the site:

www.RedCamCentral.com

thanks,

Casey Green

[radams]

Hi Jim, & All,

I've been watching Red for some time...and looking forward to when they actually ship...there is still alot up in the air as to what will and won't be included in this first release...

The specs are amazing and many a DoP are seriously looking at this camera even for their personal uses...

It will breach both the film and video production worlds....even broadcast...

This isn't the only camera thou...there is also "Silicon Imaging's camera as well...

I hope that NT and Red will be able to get together and support each others workflows...SE is perfect with its resolution & frame rate independence but it needs additional color depth...and to support the codecs RED plans on using...it would also be COOL to have the ability to work with RED's RAW format...

Cheers,

[jcrj]

Since they are offering a complete refund if we decide not to get it for any reason, I put the $1000 down on deposit for Red One #351 (http://www.clint-johnson.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=78&Itemid=27). If they can't deliver for any reason I just have to send back the titanium 'R' and they'll give me my money back... no worries.

I am currently editing with Adobe's Production Studio Premium and while I would give up some capabilities to use SpeedEDIT in place of Premier Pro (no offense people, the integration would be hard for you to beat) I would be interested in giving the demo a try when it is available (and my camera is here) to see just how much faster it is with some serious resolution.

I would probably be working in 2k resolution for most everything but it would be interesting to see how SpeedEDIT handles 4k images.

[Keith Nealy]

Jim,

The author of that forum, Casey Green, used to work for me (check his bio) and he is a good guy and is truly interested in the Red development.

I'm sure he will do a great job keeping people informed.

The major forum I have been following about RED and all other digital video issues is located on dvinfo.net.

This forum is populated by real pros who are as dedicated to helping others as the members of this forum. It is a wealth of information.

aloha,

Keith

[tyrot]

dear jim

thanks for openning this thread..I am also another fan of red..I ll be getting one when it is done..


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[Bobt]

That would be cool NAB stuff. If Newtek wants to make a Splash at NAB team up with RED and offer and editor that batch captures and does things in realtime with RED's format.

TALK about the traffic/customers that would generate!

[taylorpro]

We have cameras #298 and #299!