48hr Film Comp with an Epic

[Shawn Nelson]

Tomorrow I lead team 'Bad A 5k' in the Portland 48hr film competition, my first time trying this since 2005 and first time using a Red Epic as the camera! Doing this with fellow Reduser Ryan E Walters as my DP and William Schultz as editor/post sup. We're doing this without any RR because none of us own one, wish us luck :-D. I'll post back with how it goes down.

And thank goodness for T1.8 RPPs, we're going to be in an abandoned hotel with only a Honda eu2000i outside :-)

Update Saturday Night: shooting went super well! We wrapped by 9am this morning and handed off hdd to William for edit by 11am. Thanks to Troy Ruff, our DIT, he had a Premiere project already created with all audio synced up!! William was able to get right to work. He just finished the final locked cut and now our post sound team can take over. Ryan Walters knocked it out of the park as DP. We really created 3 distinct visual looks as the short progresses, using a combination of deliberate focal length changes and filtration (clean - Hollywood Black Magic - Antique Suede). Hopefully he'll blog about all the awesomeness he got into on this.

Update Sunday: Wow! It's all in the team. William Schultz hit the edit out of the park, then our sound post and composing team came in and nailed it. This morning I met up with William and Ryan for a full grade in Resolve. Note, drinking mimosas while doing an 11am Sunday grade makes the process kinda awesome :-). We finished in great time and submitted. Epic + Adobe with a an editor who knows what he's doing made for a fantastic Epic 48hr experience.

Update! We won 1st place out of 56 total teams! Here's a writeup of the win http://www.opb.org/artsandlife/artic...rtland-winner/

[Yousuf Abbasi]

CANT WAIT TO SEE IT

[Steve Sherrick]

Shawn, are you using Adobe CS6?

Sounds like you are going with a light lighting package. I assume you'll be using Kinos, practicals, maybe a small wattage tungsten. Having a limited lighting package can sometimes result in some great looks.

Look forward to seeing what you're able to pull off. Make sure to post your workflow when you get a chance.

Good luck!

[Shawn Nelson]

Shawn, are you using Adobe CS6?

Sounds like you are going with a light lighting package. I assume you'll be using Kinos, practicals, maybe a small wattage tungsten. Having a limited lighting package can sometimes result in some great looks.

Look forward to seeing what you're able to pull off. Make sure to post your workflow when you get a chance.

Good luck!

Thanks! Good guesses :-). CS6 for edit, RedcineXPro and Resolve 9 Lite for grade.

Yes to that kind of lighting package, also have 200w HMI, 575w HMI to use. I'm sure Ryan will chime in here after the fact to talk about his lighting strategy.

[Alexander Thomson]

Awesome! We're competing in the San Jose 48hr. Except we're representing the Scarlet :)

[Will Keir]

Thanks! Good guesses :-). CS6 for edit, RedcineXPro and Resolve 9 Lite for grade.

Shawn, what are your steps in your round trip? Editing in CS6 first, then color grade, correct? I'm wondering how you get your files over to RCX and back into CS6 graded? What are you exporting them as on both trips?

Thanks.

[George Butterfield]

This is really interesting because the RED workflow is at a disadvantage in a 48hr competition. Let us know how you managed the time constraints.

[Scott Crawley]

This is really interesting because the RED workflow is at a disadvantage in a 48hr competition. Let us know how you managed the time constraints.

With Premiere CS6 there is no reason why it should be. All you render is the edit, and Resolve does that very quickly @2k.

[Jonathan Stevenson]

I just did the 48hr in Denver on my Epic. With CS6, the "Red Disadvantage" is non existent. We finished with 2 hours to spare on Sunday. I heard that most other groups who shot Red did not finish on time. Not sure if that's due to lack of CS6 or just bad luck... We didn't have a rocket. We did have a Quadro 4000 which probably helped.

[Justin Kirchhoff]

This is really interesting because the RED workflow is at a disadvantage in a 48hr competition. Let us know how you managed the time constraints.

I don't understand the disadvantage of the RED workflow in CS6 in a 48hr competition. Actually I don't see any disadvantage in the RED workflow at all. I'm knocking out edits faster in CS6 than I ever have with FCP. It's rock solid if you ask me.