RED Cine. in ENG?

[JohnF]

Yep, the speed of REDCINE is the top interest for fast turnaround shoots like alot of SD work(which is still the majority) is. And as mentioned some producers will want the footage ASAP.

I know for sure that I will be asked to produce RED footage at SD. I am hoping REDCINE will be fast enough to convert to SD at least say at 2x(but 5x would be great) that way I'll be able to shoot 4k all the time to future proof any work instead of shooting in an SD mode. I also will consider doing all offline's at SD (at first) so as not to overwork and overfill my edit system.

But I admit that a SD recording mode would be nice to have up my sleeve!

JohnF

[tj williams]

Graeme seems pretty dead set against adding NTSC PAL to the RGB RED world. so I guess our best hope to work in this market is fast rendering! Thanks Donatello for the site on codecs, very informative stuff. I will be following Blairs van around to learn what to put in mine. We have both PC n Mac computers but I'm personally more comfortable on PC, which also usually seems to be cheaper for about the same power... So call me Irish "na then SnPaddys DaysOver. but don't call me Scotch"...

I probably shouldn't mention my preference as this seems to lead to very heart felt arguments about what is best....

[Jay A. Kelley]

I love the ENG section of the REDuset.net.. Our focus is a lot more refined since we work day in and day out on this stuff.. Basically:

SPEED SPEED SPEED.. SPEED is what WE NEED.

As TJ said in another post, most of the time our clients are watching over our shoulder with an edit session later that day. If we tell them, "yeah it's gonna look great.. You just need to develop it all before you shoot it". Their question will almost never be "how good will it look?" instead we will get the dramatic sigh, the removal of a few of their hairs, and then the "What? How long will THAT take?!"

Stuart, Graeme, Rob.. I know you are all doing a fantastic job on RED, and this is not exactly what the camera was designed for, but it is a HUGE market. You put a lot of effort into making the modular and easy to configure. If you could do the same with the format and get down to 480p directly out of camera, then you would have a machine for the ages.

This ability would allow us to get in front of our smaller clients who have not yet moved to HD and keep them in the loop, spoiling them on the optics of the RED and helping make the jump to a better format.

Jay