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05-06-2007, 10:03 PM
Any Melbourne DoP's with a Red on order?
I have screenplays (LA comp finalist x3) ready to go and some links to financing and can't wait to join this revolution. Having worked at Blackmagic Design I'm already a beret-wearing revolutionary - let's go!
Cheers
Bettsy
05-06-2007, 10:09 PM
Shame your not in Perth BettsyOriginally Posted by bettsy
05-06-2007, 10:12 PM
Sorry Bettsy, we're in Sydney.
05-06-2007, 11:01 PM
Bettsy
Got one coming to Melbourne but I don't expect delivery until Sept/Oct. Also have access to another (roughly the same delivery time) if you need A-B setups. If this fits in with your timeframe, PM me and we'll chat.
Cheers
Cam
05-07-2007, 02:22 AM
Order no: 179 here Bettsy in Melbourne. You can PM me if you like.
cheers
nalu
05-08-2007, 05:23 PM
Hi all... same here...
I work in Post at Lemac and we are down for 2 of the early ones (I'm not 100% sure what order number we have) and will certainly be keeping in touch on here in relation to the Red workflow etc.
-Tim
www.lemac.com.au
05-08-2007, 05:59 PM
Nice to finally hear from you, Tim :)
Shoot David Farland an email and hop on the as-yet unnamed users group contact list, it'd be good to have you on board, I think.
05-08-2007, 06:51 PM
already have done. ;)
05-08-2007, 11:00 PM
I think you're 62 and 63
07-20-2007, 10:02 PM
All,
Went to the ACS (Aust. Cinematographers Society) demonstration night at AFTRS (AustralianFilm & TelevisionSchool) last night (Friday). As you may know it was the SMPTE 07 conference in Sydney last week and Apple had brought out Ted Schilowitz (Red Ted).
Quite a few people turned up early. Unfortunately name tags had only ‘guest’ so missed out in meeting some local Red enthusiasts. Be great to know who else where there, Anyone?
Went into the hall and sat down with a non-working version of the Red camera/18-50 lens sitting on the stage.
David Wakeley opened the night mentioning the agenda would be: 1. Red camera & 2. Red workflow.
He then thanked Alan Butterfield – AFTRS (projectionist), Mike Seymore (fxguide) & Ray Calford (Sony Tech).
The room sits about 220 and if all the people standing, sat down, I say it would have been filled.
Ted asked how may have got a Red on order – and about 1/3 of room puts their hands up.
He started by saying the Mysterium sensor is key to all and they have a special sensor team and have their own intellectual property rights on the sensor.
“The camera is very much like a digital still camera that happens to shoot motion pictures.”
Their logic to build the sensor was the same approach you would have in building a digital still sensor.
He went on discuss the basic sensor specifications i.e. S35, 12meg etc. Then talked about the progress of how digital still camera have overtaken film still cameras and started on specifications: Dynamic range of 11 stops. Rated at 250 ASA at the no noise floor, 1-60fps @ 4K, 1-120fps @ 2K windowed, weight 9lbs, i/o posts etc.
In the near future Red expects to eclipse the DR of some film stocks.
He showed various stills of Red including the latest ‘Bad Ass’ photo still.
He talked about Red also have optics division which are producing: 18-50mm T3, Full set of primes,300mm telephoto, 50-150mm lens. Went on to discuss frame rates/files sizes of uncompressed/raw file sizes and Redcode wavelet based compression. Then recording media – hard drive/ express & compact flash media.
Mentioned Red went to Apple and asked if they’d collaborate with Red with a post production solution. Discussed Red native ingest & ProRes 4:2:2 (for HD) and also mentioned that Assimilate had a hand in helping Red develop RedCine. He also gave a demo of RedCine.
He said a special version of FCP, which will recognize the Red camera footage in a couple of months.
Okay, as an introduction to ‘Crossing the line’ he talked about how Peter Jackson came to make the short……
About 7 months ago Ted got a phone call from PJ who said he didn’t want anything special but if you needed help testing, then Peter would be available, no strings attached.
Peter said he was gonna be in LA in a few weeks and if Red could set up a screening for him and his team, that’ll be great.. They showed footage from Frankie(?) of Redcine compressed and uncompressed images, PJ & his team all guessed wrong to what was the compressed version and what was uncompressed.
Moving on, about a month before NAB 07, Red asked PJ if they’d like to shoot some test footage for Red. PJ said if they came to NZ he’d be happy to shoot some test footage. Jim & co then went with their 2 prototypes to Wellington, NZ.
He mentioned Red went to Apple and asked if they’d collaborate with Red in post production. Discussed Red native ingest & ProRes 4:2:2 (for HD) and also mentioned Assimilate had a hand in helping Red develop RedCine. Gave a little demo of RedCine. Mentioned that special version of FCP, which will recognize the Red camera/footage will be out in a couple of months.
They then showed the footage of ‘Crossing the Line’. The footage was ProRes2K playing off a Mac with FCP. Look nice, clean, warmish.
The movie was shot in 2 days on 500MB, in the dirt, in the air with helicopter. He said the aerial footage was shot in a couple of hours, where normally it would take weeks……..where the 2 planes & helicopter would need to be lined up, you’d then shoot one film magazine, come down, reload and start again. He then went on to describe post production: editorial on FCP in 2 days, sound in 2 days, finished in 2 days on 4K Pablo. The footage was 2K playing off a Mac with FCP. Mike Seymour talked of online Red training and introduced Lucas Wilson. Lucas talked about Scratch and its native Red support. He gave a good/funny PowerPoint presentation showing traditional off/online workflow and then showed a Red/Assimilate easy workflow. He then gave short walk-through of 3 workflows.
One using FCP/Color, one using Scratch and typical on/offline/dpx process and another using native Redcode in FCP, Redcine, Scratch. Scratch looked very easy, fast and intuitive. He mentioned Scratch renders 4K @10 frame/sec. The room was opened up for questions while Scratch demonstration was setup.
Pause:
I’ll post Part 2 (question & answers time) when I get back tonight. (Oz time).
Real sorry not to have it all in one post but 5 young kids are just waiting to see the Transformer movie up the road...Bondi Junction.
Cheers,
David
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