Fred Schruers has a good article in Wired Can the Internet Save Indie Film? The article addresses an equally good and even more influential address by Mark Gill at the LA Film Festival entitled Yes, The Sky Really is Falling.
Cliff Notes of the Wired article: more indie films than ever are being made, [...]
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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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Posted in Amazon Web Services, Assimilate Scratch, EngineYard, Enterprise 2.0, NLE, RightScale, Tim O'Reilly, Web 2.0, ambient computing, cloud computing, digital cinema, google, heroku, mobile phones, presentations on Friday, 2 May 2008, 11:48 am | 1 Comment »
I always listen to what Tim O’Reilly has to say. Smart guy who knows tech and has a good track record of accurately foreseeing (and guiding) trends (he coined “Web 2.0″). It’s well worth checking out his presentation a couple weeks ago at Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco.
In case you don’t have the 24 [...]
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Posted in 4K, Filmmaker Magazine, Indie filmmaking, Red Camera, Red digital cinema, cameras, cinematography, digital cinema, high-definition, joy of use on Wednesday, 23 April 2008, 1:17 pm | 1 Comment »
Real-world scoop on shooting two features with Red One Digital Cinema cameras from Offhollywood Studios, company of Mark Pederson (early Red adaptor and innovator).
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Posted in 2K, 3K, 4K, Hasselblad, Indie filmmaking, Nikon, Red Camera, Red digital cinema, Scarlet, cameras, digital cinema, high-definition, photography on Tuesday, 22 April 2008, 4:17 pm | 1 Comment »
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 [...]
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Posted in 3K, 4K, 5K, Indie filmmaking, Red Camera, Red digital cinema, Redcode RAW, SDK, cameras, cinematography, digital cinema, high-definition, post-production, workflow on Saturday, 19 April 2008, 11:42 am | No Comments »
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 [...]
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Posted in Dailymotion, Indie filmmaking, Web 2.0, community site, digital cinema, free, indie distribution, online video, social networking on Friday, 4 April 2008, 3:51 pm | No Comments »
Mashable reports about a site called Dailymotion which allows indie filmmakers to post and stream their indie full-lengh feature films. Cool. As far as I know, there’s not a lot of places to do this (except for, e.g., Jaman). But I can’t access from Hong Kong the one indie feature Dailymotion has, Red Without Blue. [...]
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Posted in 4K, Final Cut, Indie filmmaking, REDCINE, Red Alert, Red Camera, Red digital cinema, cinematography, digital cinema, film editing, high-definition, workflow on Thursday, 27 March 2008, 12:15 pm | No Comments »
EXCELLENT RED INFO NUMBER 1: I’m about to wire transfer the balance for my complete Red order. In finalizing what exactly to order, I found these 12 excellent videos to be invaluable, as they show in clear detail the parts of the Red camera, how to use them, how they work:
Learn All About the Red [...]
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Posted in Filmart, HKIFF, Hong Kong, Indie filmmaking, Panavision Genesis, Red Camera, Red digital cinema, cinematography, digital cinema, post-production on Thursday, 20 March 2008, 1:45 am | 2 Comments »
I attended Filmart for part of Tuesday and Wednesday (yesterday), just down the road in the Hong Kong Convention Centre. Filmart is a pan-Asian film and TV market. This was the first film market I’ve been to, so I found it fascinating.
I saw:
Production companies from around Asia (Japan, Hong Kong, Thailand, China, Indonesia, Philippines, [...]
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Posted in 4K, Final Cut, Indie filmmaking, NLE, R3D, REDCINE, Red Alert, Red Camera, Red digital cinema, Ted Schilowitz, digital cinema, film editing, high-definition, post-production on Wednesday, 19 March 2008, 1:40 pm | No Comments »
Check out this thread on reduser.net, kicked off by Red’s Ted Schilowitz, for the latest and greatest on Red workflow: a moving (and amazing) target. Most important are the (generally positive) posts and concrete suggestions by people actually making money and movies with a Red camera (who are often to busy to post and b*tch).
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