Posted in 4K, Indie filmmaking, Red Camera, compact flash on Saturday, 19 July 2008, 5:30 pm | No Comments »
Red’s Jarred Land announced today on reduser.net that they’ve started shipping their Red-built 16Gb compact flash (CF) cards.
Deanan from Red points out that these are the fastest CF cards on the planet. They allow for approximately 8 minutes of 4K 16:9 (4096 x 2304 pixels) “footage” to be shot. It’s like having a full 35mm [...]
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Posted in 2:1, 4K, Cedrick Chan, Hong Kong, Indie filmmaking, REDCINE, Red Camera, green screen, high-definition, music video on Thursday, 10 July 2008, 12:15 pm | 2 Comments »
The shoot for the “Space Lover” music video finished up on Tuesday, shot with my Red One #1304. It was written, directed and produced by Cedrick Chan (ex of ILM). Director of Photography was Roman Baska of Salon (with Salon generously donating studio time, equipment and crew). Editorial and post-production by Peg Leg Productions.
More info [...]
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Posted in 16:9, 4K, Build 16, Indie filmmaking, REDCINE, Red Camera, cameras, music, music video on Sunday, 6 July 2008, 11:06 am | 3 Comments »
James Blunt move over…
Last weekend we shot a music video on multiple locations in Hong Kong. The excellent, soulful and catchy song for the video is “Blind Generation” and the song writer and singer is up-and-coming star Greg Moore. The video was written, directed and produced by Digger T. Mesch. Director of Photography was Roman [...]
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This article by S. James Snyder, “New Camera Poised To Alter Filmmaking”, is the best summary for non-film professionals of why Red is revolutionary. This is the article I’ll give my friends and family (who don’t know much about film-making) to explain why I’ve been so excited about Red, since November 2005, when rumors of [...]
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Posted in 16:9, 4K, Build 16, Indie filmmaking, Jim Jannard, R3D, Red Camera, Red digital cinema, Redcode RAW, cameras, cinematography, firmware, high-definition on Thursday, 19 June 2008, 10:32 am | 3 Comments »
The much-anticipated Red One camera Build 16 firmware is finally here! The top features in Build 16 that I’m looking forward to are: ability to shoot 16×9 4K; improved ability to shoot in low light; improved and evenly distributed film-grain-like noise; ability to record audio directly to camera (i.e., without a mixer) using phantom mic [...]
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Posted in 4K, Apple, Hong Kong, QMaster, R3D, REDCINE, Red Alert, Red Camera, Red Epic, Red digital cinema, Ted Schilowitz, cameras, high-definition on Friday, 6 June 2008, 1:49 pm | 8 Comments »
[UPDATE, 12 June 2008, 1am HK time: I've learned that Stewart Chong has been posting his comment below (with links back here to this post) in various places (e.g., HK Final Cut Pro Users Group and reduser.net). For the record, I have no formal affiliation with Red. I'm just a satisfied customer and friend/acquaintance [...]
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Jim Jannard just posted about the much-anticipated Build 16 of the camera’s firmware, which is due out in Alpha very soon. Sounds good to me:
What is Build 16?
Since you all have waited so long for this infamous build, I think it is only fair to tell you some of it’s advantages.
1. We will [...]
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Red.com has posted some excellent interviews with famous and talented directors and cinematographers on their impressions of and experiences with the Red One camera:
Crash
Doug Liman
Michael Cioni
Pierre De Lespinois
Stephen Soderbergh
Tony Richmond
Great interviews and real-world insight into how good Red is to make films. A good quote by Tony Richmond (ASC, BSC): “I think you [Red] are [...]
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Jim Jannard has an informative post with updates on reduser.net. Highlights:
2. Build 16 has been completely rebuilt three times. This is an incredibly difficult trick we are pulling off. Much more difficult and complicated than we thought. We have all our horses on it. Graeme is even at RED working his ass off along with [...]
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Red’s got a great camera, but the same cannot be said for their documentation. So we all forage at reduser.net. Here’s a 5-page guide to all the menus you can access on the Red One camera (by hitting the buttons on the back of the camera, which appear in red on these diagrams). This [...]
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