Indie 2.0

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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Jim Jannard has posted on reduser.net that there will be a new firmware upgrade to Red One coming soon which will allow 4.5K, 2.40:1 at 30fps. Sweet!
For those of you who don’t know, 2.40:1 is super widescreen (a new high-def TV with 16:9 aspect ratio is 1.78:1). Check out the graphic comparting aspect ratios on [...]

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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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[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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Darren Finner has launched an excellent site featuring a roundup of the Red accessories he likes best, complete with commentary and, in many cases, reviews. Darren is a big (and opinionated) poster on reduser.net. This “Finner Knows Best” site has write-ups (and links) for:
Element Technica
View Factor Studios
Redrock Micro
UGrip
Toys 4 Red
LS Designs
Action Cam
Lens Babies
Matrox
(Warning: Darren’s tongue-in-cheek [...]

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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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Check out this video of an exclusive demo for the RED party during NAB 08 just a few weeks ago by BIRGER Engineer Erik Widding–giving a final rundown of his much anticipated 35mm canon mount for RED ONE. This mount will allow you to mount Canon EOS lenses onto Red (and perhaps more importantly, othere–even [...]

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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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After a few ad hoc test shoots, got to take my Red #1304 out and do something real and interesting: On Thursday we shot Canto Pop diva and movie star Kelly Chen doing a promotional message for a charity.
It was one of those crazy shoots–with too little space and too many people; in a tiny [...]

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