Some tips...

[Jannard]

Calibrate your monitor... you are now a Professional. This is mandatory.

Download the "Compatibility Update for Quicktime 7.2" from Apple.
Under Prefs, check the appropriate box.

Check your CF card reader for compatibility with REDCODE files BEFORE you shoot something important.

Upload and install the latest RED Alert!, QT node and RED ONE Firmware. Check for new packages daily.

Jim

[Fergus Meiklejohn]

Apple's Software Update only says the Quicktime compatability update improves compatability with ilife! lol .. We're in a Pro world now..:whistling:
Seriously though folks.. Are you all calibrating your monitors to 1.8?? I had a good look at the Apple systems set up to demonstrate Color at IBC and noticed that the image on the Apple Display was almost identical to the image on their little JVC monitors with HD-SDI inputs. The apple displays were calibrated just as they come out of the factory: "HD Display", which is 1.8 I suppose.

[Ken K]

Download the "Compatibility Update for Quicktime 7.2" from Apple.
Under Prefs, check the appropriate box.

This one?
http://www.apple.com/support/downloa...icktime72.html

I assume the checkbox is "Enable Final Cut Studio color compatibility"? I noticed that checkbox was there before the update though. Just want to make sure I grabbed the right update, as this one on Apple's site refers to iLife compatibility.

[Jannard]

Sorry... that isn't the right update (although it won't hurt anything). If you have FCP2, there is a new box to check in QT prefs. That's what I was thinking about and got lost at 2am.

Jimk

[Billy Summers]

Is anyone planning on using a "spider" to calibrate mac monitors?
Like still photographers do

[S. Um]

There's been a lot of good tips lately, especially since the camera's release. But they're in many different threads. Maybe the mods can collect them and put them in one sticky. Brook?

[Justin Kirchhoff]

Hey Jim, is there anyway that in the future when new cameras are shipped out, that we can post these updates and tips as Sticky's? I think it would be helpful to most RED users and owners so we don't have to go scrolling through pages of posts.

Thanks!

[donatello b]

any chance of having all RED tips ( i think this is the 3rd posted by JJ)
saved and easy to find ??

[Johnny Friday]

How about just coming over and calibrating my monitor and a private seminar on how to use the black box and set me up with a business plan?

ha ha ha....well I guess i'm not paying enough. But i'll pitch in some beer and tacos...again!

[Jannard]

How about just coming over and calibrating my monitor and a private seminar on how to use the black box and set me up with a business plan?

ha ha ha....well I guess i'm not paying enough. But i'll pitch in some beer and tacos...again!

No hay problema!

Jim.