Scarlet - Instructional Videos

[Kacey Baker]

Seem's to have been a high level of newcomers to this website in the last few weeks. I myself have been viewing the sight for a lot longer than I have contributed simply out of respect, as I don't actually own a RED.

With Scarlet attracting a new community of users, entry level / prosumer / indie crowd / drawing the committed end of the dslr market, would it be rude to ask for sufficient instructional videos for the SCARLET, all my research on the RED ONE came from third party websites and independent users.

Does RED plan to support the new customer? Or should we be pointed in the direction of an established instructor?

[Brian Merlen]

Reducation is a great way to learn more, I did one of the remote courses, it was very informative, and extremely discounted compared to the non remote course. Also consistently reading up is very helpful, since things are ever improving regularly it pays to pay attention here, especially to the recon section. In general getting a wide negative is the way to go, don't clip the whites or crush the blacks and anything you do can be fixed in post, much more so then RGB lossy codecs (such as the DSLRs) allow. Some people know what they want as a final style and shoot for it then and there and don't aim for a wide negative, which is fine too, but the wider the negative the safer you are in post should severe changes be wanted. The menus are easy and intuitive with the Epic, I am sure people will learn quick on Scarlet as well. In general if anyone needs help searching the forum for a bit, or starting a new thread can quickly find you answers on a huge variety of topics. Red often answers questions on this forum very quickly, its a nice resource to have available. I am sure entry level people will be fine, we all don't mind lending advice around here, its a very informative forum

[Zac C]

I'm planning on doing a whole slew of Scarlet Instructional videos, and updating them as new releases come out.

Still setting up the preliminaries.

[AndreeMarkefors]

There will be no shortage of sites presenting information about Scarlet.

Just like with the Canon 5D mkII, you will be able to wade knee deep in poorly produced sites with no shortage of ads.

Some sites will leave no stone unturned in order to find an excuse to update their blog 10 times a day accompanied with a couple of tweets per blog post, while others won't update for weeks, but might have more in depth articles.

Fret not.

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By the way: start by reading the Epic manual. You can do that right now.

[Jeffrey Loewe]

I'm planning on doing a whole slew of Scarlet Instructional videos, and updating them as new releases come out.

Still setting up the preliminaries.
I've talked with Zac about helping him with this as well. Although I'm pretty sure his knowledge is deeper than mine. I'll be learning alot from him along the way.

[Steve Sherrick]

Producing instructional videos takes a decent amount of time to do them well, but I'm sure there will be some people who will jump in and do it. I really like the concept of a site like Digital Cinema Lessons where everything can be centralized and to a certain extent given a seal of approval. Paying a small fee similar to itunes range of pricing is fair and makes it worthwhile to the instructors. For example, I know Zac will do a killer job with the Scarlet videos but I would guess he's also going to want to be out shooting and making money with his camera, so it gives him incentive to share his knowledge if there's a little bit of money involved. Then again, Reduser is built on the concept of free exchange of ideas, including tips and techniques. Either approach is valid. I'm sure there will be content in both places.