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Ted Schilowitz on how to expose with Red: “Two Cameras In One”

Posted in ASA, Indie filmmaking, Red Camera, cameras, cinematography, exposure, high dynamic range on Saturday, 25 April 2009, 4:27 pm | 1 Comment »

Excellent post a couple weeks ago from Ted Schilowitz on “how to expose with Red”. Succinct and excellent. Neatly fleshes out some gut impulses I had, based on empirical evidence (aka actually shooting a lot with Red): I’m explaining to people on a pretty regular basis that the RED is kind of like 2 cameras [...]

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New card for Mac/PC to make real-time editing and playback of Red files (R3Ds) possible: Red Rocket

Posted in 4K, Adobe Premiere, AfterEffects, Final Cut, Indie filmmaking, REDCINE, Red Alert, Red Rocket, post-production on Thursday, 23 April 2009, 1:33 pm | Leave a Comment »

Jim Jannard announced today a very cool new product from Red which will greatly simplify and make less expensive professional cinema-quality post-production workflow–which will apparently be out in 2 months: RED Rocket. R3D Decode, debayer and playback high quality REALTIME 4k at 30fps (or 5K at 25fps). Will accelerate FCP, Premiere, After Effects, RED Alert!, [...]

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Online Series “Lumina” and its own “Friends, Fans and Followers”

Posted in AliveNotDead, FansFriendsFollowers, Hong Kong, Indie filmmaking, Jen Thym, Lumina, Red Camera, Red digital cinema, Web 2.0, YouTube, digital distribution, facebook, freemium, indie distribution, online movies, online video, self-distribution, web series, web video, webisode on Sunday, 19 April 2009, 8:41 pm | Leave a Comment »

My good friend and fellow indie director/producer Jen Thym shot a web series on a Red in Hong Kong last winter and is in post-production editing now. Jen’s an ex-banker, ex-lawyer, comic book artist, gamer, writer and all-around Renaissance woman. Her hot new self-edited trailer went live tonight: In addition to YouTube, Jen’s building friends, [...]

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Scott Kirsner’s “Friends, Fans and Followers”

Posted in FansFriendsFollowers, Indie filmmaking, Lumina, Scott Kirsner, books, indie distribution, online movies, self-distribution on Sunday, 19 April 2009, 8:34 pm | 1 Comment »

My friend from the blogosphere, Scott Kirsner has a great new book out, called Friends, Fans and Followers: I’ve only had time to browse through an advance copy, but it looks great. Here’s from an email Scott sent me on it: Just wanted to send a quick note about a new book I have coming [...]

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NAB ’09 3 Coolest Things: Red Pro Primes + GearNex Gear Head + Panny GH1

Posted in 24P, 4K, 5K, Adobe, Adobe Premiere, AfterEffects, Apple Color, Apple ProRes 422, Canon EOS 5D Mark II, Cineform, Criterion, Epic, GH-1, Gearnex, NAB, Panasonic, Quicktime, RPP, Red Pro Primes, Red accessories, Redrock Micro, Scarlet, Ted Schilowitz, cameras, cinematography, color correction, digital cinema, handheld, high-definition, lens mounts, lenses, maps on Sunday, 19 April 2009, 12:45 pm | 6 Comments »

[UPDATE, 20 April, 8am: added some thoughts on post-production as P.S. at the end of this post] OK, so this is admittedly subjective but here are three about-to-be-released things that will create a lot of buzz at NAB–which I’m likely to buy for my budding boutique indie feature film studio here in Hong Kong: Red [...]

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Shot-on-Red “Knowing” hits Hong Kong 16 April

Posted in Hong Kong, Red digital cinema, cinema on Sunday, 12 April 2009, 9:06 pm | Leave a Comment »

The first big blockbuster Hollywood movie shot on a Red camera will play in Hong Kong, starting 16 April. I’ll see it at the big screen movie theater in Causeway Bay (presumably on film), where I just saw “Shinjuku Incident”, which I enjoyed and which exceeded my expectations (anyone who spent time in Tokyo in [...]

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The next “bite” in Google’s eating of Microsoft’s lunch?

Posted in Android, Web 2.0, google, netbooks, online office apps on Wednesday, 1 April 2009, 2:02 pm | Leave a Comment »

Business Week reports that HP is studying putting Google’s Android cellphone operating system on netbooks (small cheap pcs good at doing what a majority of the people-hours spent on a pc do: use a web browser to read and interact). And so we need Vista 2 (sorry, Windows 7) less and less. The next shoe [...]

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