RED ONE Camera Set-up Software?

[Ralph Oshiro]

Maybe this had already been discussed? But the SD memory card thread made me wonder, "Will there be a RED ONE software application, so that you can do all of your camera set-up on a PC or a Mac, and avoid in-camera menus?" This doesn't have to be right away, but it would be a nice future capability.

Although most modern cameras now have internal memory card slots to be enable the user to store various menu set-up configurations, (or to enable the easy set-up of several cameras the same way), only a very few have distributed software to be able to manipulate your camera set-up menus on your desktop or laptop computer (which I much prefer over toggling through in-camera menus). Some manufacturers don't support this practice at all, and one in particular, actually discourages this practice by third parties.

[Brook Willard]

Well the camera has a USB interface, so I imagine there will be something along these lines. While it may not be a setup app, you might be able to "mount" the camera on your desktop to load LUTs and such. Just guessing.

Remember that there won't be many settings on the camera. That's the beauty of shooting RAW - you get everything so you don't have to worry about choosing detail settings and such. Most people will just choose "4K REDCODE RAW," "24.000 FPS" and be on their merry way. :)

Did you have something more specific in mind?

[SF Geek]

Hey Brook,
I think what he means is that he wants to know how to apply looks to a processed output for monitoring or recording through the HDSDI port or whatever. He wants to know what he will need to interface with the camera to apply different presets or do an on the fly curves adjustment.

I don't think that everybody will be recording Redcode Raw by the way. I know a lot of companies and producers who would like to be able to walk away with a HD CAM tape of the shoot with looks applied and not give two shits about the 4k RAW files. It will take them a while to get used to the whole 4k thing.

[Stuart English]

Yes, we do have internal memory in the camera, designed to hold a number of camera set up files and color processing files.

[phatred]

Stuart...will you be able to manipulate those files on your PC and then download them to the camera?

[Corrado Silveri]

Please, allow this software to setup EVF/monitor screen guide or (even better) a .psd file to overlay the live pictures during the shooting.
This feature will be a tremendous help...
(Thinking about vfx, green/blue screen setup, packshots, graphic/3d matching).

It will be a "dreamcometrue".

Corrado.

[CVB]

Corrado, thats actually a great idea. To take it one step further - this is way out in the future but what if we had on board compositing ability. Take a shot, store it... then do a real time composite to get your shot setup in camera. It would be awesome for doing motion control shots.. we could even sync up the footage with the motion of our pan-tilt head.

[Dominic Jones]

Please, allow this software to setup EVF/monitor screen guide or (even better) a .psd file to overlay the live pictures during the shooting.

If possible, that would be a simply fantastic feature - gets my vote, every time!


Remember that there won't be many settings on the camera. That's the beauty of shooting RAW - you get everything so you don't have to worry about choosing detail settings and such. Most people will just choose "4K REDCODE RAW," "24.000 FPS" and be on their merry way. :)

Surely there will have to be all of the relevant settings on the camera, otherwise it will be extremely limited for those shooting to 1080p or 720p RGB - you won't be able to alter the look of that in post as radically as with RAW.

Also, there's always been talk of attaching the LUT meta-data to each shot, which implies that full setup, for both monitoring and "pre-grading" must exist. I most certainly hope so - I'll want to see what the final shot's going to look like, at least fairly close to it, on set...