Interviewed on the German website film-tv-video.de, here’s the main punchlines on Red’s new cameras, Epic and Red, from Red’s “Leader of the Rebellion”, Ted Schilowitz. A few highlights from this interview:
[Scarlet] shoots Redcode, like its bigger brother, the RedOne. It uses the same Compact Flash (CF) cards that Red uses [video image shows two CF cards slotted in side-by-side in body of prototype Scarlet]. And we can go 1-120 frames per second… It has a next generation Mysterium sensor… a 2/3 inch sensor. So if you remember me talking about it’s going to be a professional tool a year ago, now you sort of see what I was talking about. Because this isn’t a little tiny sensor that you would expect to see in a consumer or even a prosumer or HD camcorder… this is a very large [sensor]. Something that you would expect to find in digital cinema type products that would cost hundreds of thousands of [U.S.] dollars….
Epic will use Redcode raw, but it goes up to a much higher bit rate, so it means a lower compression ratio….
We have an SDK (software development kit) that will be coming out in the relatively near future, sometime this summer is the target. And when it’s done and ready to go, it will be released to the world, and there’ll be a program, that we’ll announce the details on, that a lot more companies that are doing post-production tools will have access to our native file format….
