"Tattoo" project notes...

[Michael McVicar]

So many times film making is "hurry up and wait". You guys have trimmed the wait part out of the equation.

At the same time pushing the highest quality envelope.

Great read thanks.

[Martin Weiss]

He sums up the workflow nicely:

• RED is capable of being downloaded approximately 2x faster than real time to backup drives on site
• RED is capable of being rendered to every flavor of AVID or Quicktime format in real time, or even slightly faster than real time
• REDCine-X is a free application that can sync audio, color correct with the R3D Raw files, playback images and export just about every modern codec in use today
• REDCine-X is available online and runs on both Windows and Mac OSX. This means RED has put the equivalent of an SR deck for playback and processing in the hands of everyone with a computer.

About EPIC:

Epic does work, it is stable and makes incredible pictures. And Epic’s workflow is the most streamlined and readily available cinema pipeline available.

[AnthonyFlores]

Yah this was super helpful. Thanks Michael, you make complex stuff seem easy -- which is quite a gift :)

Anthony

[Erich Ocean]

8. Kelvin and Tint are maintained. For this film, all other meta-data fields are “zeroed” out and the curve of REDLogFilm is applied during import

Interesting. So even RED's own short film was't graded directly from REDRAW.

I saw the film at NAB, and also thought Michael's write up was wonderfully detailed. Well done on both!

[Dustin Brown]

I enjoyed reading this! Very informative. When can those of us who couldn't make it to NAB be able to see the film?

[jake blackstone]

Interesting. So even RED's own short film was't graded directly from REDRAW.

You can't grade bayered encoded image directly, which is what R3D. At some point, before applying color transforms, image needs to be debayered and RGB encoded. Some systems do that in a separate step, by first transcoding it to 10 or 16 bit LIN or LOG DPX (Lustre, FiilmMaster) or on the fly, by storing it in a RAM (Baselight, Resolve, Scratch). That is unless I'm mistaken:-)

[Jannard]

I'm sure Michael will step in here and clear up any misconceptions... and the short will be uploaded as soon as Jarred has a minute.

Jim

[SeanBrown]

Love this thanks a bunch

[Sean Cruser]

Really cant wait to see this film. The post was a great read.

[Manuel G]

Nice work and clever explanation link.
"Tattoo" looks very well, congratulations :)