The more things change the more they stay the same.

[Finner]

So I have been away for a bit but 3 things seem to consistantly remain the same.

1. The Red One produces amazing images.

2. A post solution that does not make the editor wish to commit harakiri is just around the corner.

3. The birger mount is shipping next week.

Please feel free to correct me on any of these as I may have missed some important new announcements.

Cheers All

Daren

[Frank Weeks]

Your dead on

[mikeburton]

+ Audio/ipin upgrades coming soon, RED Drives are shipping again (got my email yesterday, Pro 7' LCD will start shipping soon (says Brent), Epic has changed (not sure what that means) and there will be a new DSLR killer cam in development.
Once the 16gb cards and new CF Modules start shipping I'll be stoked! Anything I missed in the latest news?

[BASSAM MSSALATIE]

welcome back Finner .
Yesterday i almost make a new thread called * Where are you Finner *It has been long time ...

[Jan Reiff]

looking out for the 4.5K upgrade!

[Noah Kadner]

Welcome back! Is prison food as bad as they say?

Noah

[BASSAM MSSALATIE]

Welcome back! Is prison food as bad as they say?

Noah

Firestorm always start's with a Spark .
Please don't set it up :)

[Tobias Straka]

Well Nr. 2 has been resolved a long time ago... And who wants to play with iMovie anyway?!

[Deanan]

2. A post solution that does not make the editor wish to commit harakiri is just around the corner.

Sounds like a good time for an update. Things have been moving very quickly behind the scenes on many different fronts. There are alot of things happening with partners that we aren't abl to talk about yet.

Currently the most popular workflows we're seeing is transcoding to ProRes or DNxHD (via compressor, RR, RC, RL, or via the wrappers into Media Composer). At the moment, editing in the native editor codecs gives you the best editing workflow (because they're native, rgb, lower res, less space).
Transcode times for an 8 core mac are about 3:1 for 2k (from 4k) and greater than realtime for 1k (from 4k).

There's be a new release of the QT codec week that fixes a bunch of things and enables more control over the 2k decode speed/quality. This release will also work better with compressor, etc.

The first version Adobe plugin is currently being tuned and will provide a good base to grow the workflow as we continue to work with Adobe on improving the workflow. It's a tremendous amount of work to get it right but we're very excited about where we're going here.

I'll let Michael speak about the Avid future when they're ready to. We're looking forward to what they have planned because it will really make R3D/Avid very smooth.

There is also very cool stuff happening with RED support from Adobe/Assimilate, Quantel, Digital Vision, DVS, etc. There are more announcements planned for IBC from other companies but I don't know which ones I can talk about yet.

We're working on a number of fixes for the SDK which should be released next week. There are a ton of very cool tools planned from various people who signed up for the sdk.

We have a HUGE todo list and mostly everything is a high priority.

[Esteban Sosnitsky]

The first version Adobe plugin is currently being tuned and will provide a good base to grow the workflow as we continue to work with Adobe on improving the workflow. It's a tremendous amount of work to get it right but we're very excited about where we're going here.

Deanan, I have a couple of upcoming projects that could so much give a good use to that plug in. I know you are working hard and all but could you give us an estimate on when could the plug in be available? :waaa: