First thread

[Brook Willard]

Holy crap, I'm a dork. Here's to being the first locked and deleted thread!

[Denis Bosnjakovic]

fo sho!

:p

[Kyle Spicer]

cheers....lol

[Shawn Nelson]

My wife is horrified to learn that DVXUser has spawned a whole new site...woohoo!! :-)

[Brook Willard]

What's sad is that I have the most posts of anybody on the site. I need to go to sleep.

[dj29]

Woohoo! Red Land! haha Time to spread your wings

[matthewbone]

congrats Brook!

lets see if you can maintain it.

[Jarred Land]

My wife is horrified to learn that DVXUser has spawned a whole new site...woohoo!! :-)

yeah.. im setting up a special counseling program to member's spouses.

heh heh heh.

[Kyle Spicer]

yeah.. im setting up a special counseling program to member's spouses.

heh heh heh.

Let me guess its called W.A.R.

Wives Against Red

[Brook Willard]

congrats Brook!

lets see if you can maintain it.

Yeah, I rule!

...

Still awake.

[Joe Carney]

Ahhhh, to be junior member again, brings back memories of my youth.:-)!

[Adrian Correia]

race you to one hundred posts!

[Brook Willard]

I'm so in the lead. Double digits, baby!

Oh wow, I really can't believe how juvenile all this is. :laugh:

[wshultz]

So. is this going to replace our beloved forum on DVX User?

[Jannard]

So. is this going to replace our beloved forum on DVX User?

Yes... (DVX- what IS that, anyway?)

Jim

[wshultz]

That's cool. It's exciting to have place of our very own. It's like seeing Annette on the Mickey Mouse Club for the first time. Does that give away my age?

I have NO idea what DVX is.

[Häakon]

Hey, no fair... I was watching A Scanner Darkly!

Nice to see the new site is up and running. I have a feeling it's going to be quite a year. :)

[Chris Gearhart]

This will be an amazing year, and it is great to have our own place to live.

Nice Jarred!

[Poi Boy]

Can't wait to get my hands on this camera ! It will make a great birthday present to myself, May 27th...what do you say JJ ?
Aloha
-A

[Häakon]

Can't wait to get my hands on this camera ! It will make a great birthday present to myself, May 27th...what do you say JJ ?
Aloha
-A
This is what he says:

http://www.reduser.net/forum/showthread.php?p=61#post61

:)

[Greg Voevodsky]

I look forward to seeing Spike in her cage. :-)

[Scott Webster]

Logging in and ready for lift off. Go Spike and bring on 2007.

[Mark Thorpe]

......and he lands with a big splash, and the crowd goes wild, yahhhhhhhhhh. Great to see we have our own little dark corner now, a corner from which we can now start planning the revolution......

Cheers,
Mark.

[Red Oz]

Just wanted to join in on the festivities! Couldn't register my name from DVXUser (Oz) since three or more characters were required, so I changed it. I think it befits this new forum better anyway.

In some cultures new names are often bestowed on a person when he or she moves from one state of being to another. For example, from childhood to adulthood, when someone accomplishes something difficult or great, or for marriage.

Anyway, here's to a new beginning in name, forum, and filmmaking for the Red community!

[mikkowilson]

Here's to the birth of a new forum!

:beer:

EDIT: It seems the forum is still too young to drink. :)

- Mikko

[Martin Drew]

I look forward to seeing Spike in her cage. :-)

Is it a she or a he? I sort of assumed it was a he but maybe you are right.

Martin

[Jaime Vallés]

Hey, don't knock the DVX! She was a brave explorer in uncharted territory (24p at affordable prices), and has served many of us well. ;)

That said, I'm jumping straight from a DVX to a RED, with nothing in between!:eek: The RED will shoot my next feature, and the DVX will shoot the "Making-of" featurette.

[Ben Feuer]

The DVX is a super camera, and it will still have a place in my workflow for several reasons.
1. Cheap to rent (so ultra-low-budgets have an option)
2. Dead easy workflow (no fancy lenses, shoots to tape for archive)
3. I can take it anywhere (and worry much less about the risk of failure, expense, et cetera)

[Andrew Benz]

Congrats on the new site Guys. I go work and try to get a little sleep and look what happens! lol. It's going to be a great year for all of us.

Cheers,

Andrew

[RED Russians]

Let me guess its called W.A.R.

Wives Against Red

No way man!! My wife is a member of the ACS (Australian branch) and checks in with me EVERY DAY on RED's developments. We're crazy about it TOGETHER!! Oh well, some guys...

[Blaine Golden]

The RED will shoot my next feature, and the DVX will shoot the "Making-of" featurette.
That sounds like a good plan to me.

[Paul Leeming]

Just wanted to say g'day as I step through the front door of our new home :)

And no, the location to the left isn't a mistake, I'm moving to Tokyo in 10 days to live and will be getting my Red One sent there instead of Sydney, Australia!!

I will be filming the final part of my short film robot trilogy there late next year and doing it on the Red One, so I expect it's going to look amazing!!

I'm also fervently hoping that there will be a lot of Japanese filmmakers who want to hire out my baby next year to help cover my startup costs, though given that NO reservations appear to have made it to Japan it looks like that won't be too much of a problem... :D

We're in the third trimester now folks and things are getting exciting!! Here's to a trouble free birth for "Spike", may it lead the way into a new age of affordable cinema filmmaking!

Cheers!

[Corrado Silveri]

Cheers to all...

(just to post my first... post).

[Jared VanLeuven]

No way man!! My wife is a member of the ACS (Australian branch) and checks in with me EVERY DAY on RED's developments. We're crazy about it TOGETHER!! Oh well, some guys...

Heh, yeah, my wife's the CFO, and we _were_ looking at going XDCam HD, so she's a way happy camper.

[Martin Weiss]

im setting up a special counseling program to member's spouses.

Will that be part of the RedRanch?

[Paul Leeming]

Wow, zombie thread! Funny to read my post from late 2006 just above, given I just paid for our second Red camera :)

So far, so good....

Paul

[CJ Roy]

Red is extremely generous as it is...they can't make every incentive retroactive, or people will start demanding even more. Nothing's ever good enough for a lot of customers.

I think that's a pretty unfair view for early adopters who are essentially penalized, for being the early adopters that helped make Red what it is today.

As with any company or product, the user base gets furious when the price drops and it only extends to new customers, and the loyal base gets punched in the nuts. It doesn't mean we're ungrateful, we just want the same deal as the people who didn't jump in and who were still on the fence about these Red products. Hell, even Apple, of all companies, offered 17% discounts/refund to the early adopters of the iPhone after it dropped $200 a couple months after its release.

I might be the only one vocalizing this on this forum, but I'm certainly not alone in my frustration with this. Especially on the set I'm writing from, with a company owned by two directors who bought a couple of rockets recently, who would be getting the shaft on this deal as well for their cameras.

Simply put, it cost us about $1700 (17%) to be early adopters with the Rocket. That sucks, and our frustration should be understandable. Doesn't mean we're not going to keep buying red products, or we're ungrateful for lots of other things, just means this particular deal sucks for us.

Thanks.

[Adrian T.]

:zombie_smiley: Zombie thread...

[Jeff Kilgroe]

:zombie_smiley: Zombie thread...

Indeed. Time to lock it away for good.