New RED Music Video

[Nick Bartleet]

Hi Guys,

I recently completed post on a music video which we shot with the talented guys from sonic films here in the UK. The experience of using RED with good technicians, was really superb and having recently used a viper, 35mm & f900 on several different projects, i was blown away with the images the camera produced in 4k. 2k was a real disappointment, but i am hopeful the 3k will be a great alternative.

Anyway, there is a link to the video below. It is the one at the top of the page.

http://www.pixelloft.com/music_videos.htm


Feedback and questions welcome.

Cheers, Nick

[Joel Kaye]

Looks awesome to me. Nice job. There's a lot to be said for the silky smooth look. Perfect for music videos these days. Were you using smoothing in post? Or smoothing secondary corrections anywhere?

2K was a disappointment? In terms of resolution compared with F900 and Viper or something else? Did you use the 4K and downrez for this video?

thanks for the upload - very cool.

[Nick Bartleet]

Hi,

I didn't do much smoothing, except with a couple of the 2k shots where the noise had to be ironed out with the nattress noise removal in color.

I hope no-one bites my head off for saying this, but for slowmo work at 50 frames, i think the viper at 720p 50, seemed much cleaner with less noise, and more detail. I'm not sure if using something like a digiprime would help with the detail, but I did find the difference between 4k and 2k staggering, as the 4k was just so clean and so detailed. I am not condeming 2k, as clearly people have used it to great effect and it may be something we were doing wrong... perhaps we should have used more fill to lift the shadows.

Much of the video was shot in 4k, however clearly all the high speed stuff we used 2k, using the same zeiss standards we used for 4k.

[Joel Kaye]

I hope no-one bites my head off for saying this, but for slowmo work at 50 frames, i think the viper at 720p 50, seemed much cleaner with less noise, and more detail.... perhaps we should have used more fill to lift the shadows.

Nah, people won't bite your head off for mentioning things about RED that didn't seem right. That is a little scary. You shouldn't have to add fill to fix the 2K vs. the 4K. High frame rates at very good quality have always been a selling point of the camera. Let's hope it was just something to do with the firmware build or the way the footage got processed.

Nicholas Bartleet: Director / DOP / Editor / Colourist

Now this is what people will bite your head off for. You can't be all those things. Just ask almost any union person in Hollywood - they'll set you straight. You have to HIRE an editor, colorist and a DP if you're going to direct. ;-)

[Nick Bartleet]

Ha!

But if i hired all those fancy people i wouldn't be able to play with new toys like the RED!

Cheers...

Jack of all trades... Master of none!

[Phil D]

Hi Pixelloft,

Great looking music video.

[David Birdy]

Great stuff Nick thanks for posting!

I did get my head chewed on a bit for including the RedOne in a Feature article about High-defintion cameras, so it's good to hear that you feel the RedOne can be included with the Sony F900 for quality...It was also my impression and speaks volumes for a camera that was labled as "Vaperware" just a few short months ago!

Can you tell us what lens selection your used?

Thanks
Dave

[Nick Bartleet]

Thanks for the positive feedback

We shot with zeiss standards. 16mm, 20m, 24mm, 28mm, 32mm, 40mm, 50mm, 85mm

Basically we had everything sonic films have in their shooting kit which was quite a comprehensive kit list for us.

http://www.sonicfilms.co.uk/ShootingKit.html

[Poi Boy]

Beautiful,great cut, nicely done.
Aloha
-A

[Daniel Reichenbach]

GREAT, light is perfect, love it, good to see how RED can handle it. Congratulations.