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Shot last month, “The Sellout”, directed by Shern Sharma. Poubelle International is a Hong Kong based power pop band with a lot of good energy. We shot 3K (3027×1728 pixels) at Varispeed 50 frames per second (and the band sung the song at double-speed).  The whole music video is a single shot. Cool. We shot [...]

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…podcast. I’m too busy to fart sideways (working on two movies and a big IT project for an airline), no less pour over thousands of pages of analysis and FUD ruminations on the new and ever-proliferating Scarlet/Epics from Red. So what do I do? Sit down with a Sam Adams beer and listen to the [...]

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MIT Technology Review article asks if Red cameras will make still photography cameras obsolete. Well, not a 39 megapixel Hasselblad H3DII. And even a Scarlet is significantly bulkier and heavier than a Nikon D3. But it’s an interesting question I hadn’t thought much about: how much easier would it be to capture a Pulitzer Prize-winning [...]

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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 [...]

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Significant changes since Build 13: Audio playback on camera (headphone, mini-XLR and HDMI) Addition of 3K and 3K 2:1 record modes. Addition of RECODE 36 Compression Quality Setting. Addition of full size _F QuickTime Reference Movie. Addition of Relative Shutter Speed control. Addition of AUTO fan mode (SILENT in record, otherwise VARIABLE) Enhancement of Syncro [...]

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Jim Jannard posted two new announcements on reduser.net today: Red One now shoots 60fps @ 3K What this means in plain English: You can “overcrank” (i.e., shoot footage with the camera capturing 2.5 times as normal, in the same time period) to make super smooth and beautiful slow motion (when played back at normal film [...]

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