Mike is predicting that Warner’s backing of Blu-ray spells the end for HD-DVD. I’m not necessarily sure I’d want Sony to “win”, I strongly dislike their history of introducing media formats that nobody needs, and their track record on DRM is heinous. However I agree that it would be great if something would win, so prices can start dropping. I really need to be able to backup my HD content somewhere, and at the moment it’s cheaper for me to buy extra hard drives than Blu-ray media.
Mike from HD for Indies with the Red One overlooking New York City
The Red camera is in the wild, and apparently the revolution wont be televised, it will be filmed, at 4096×2048 @ 24FPS. Here is a quick link roundup from the interwebs.
I downloaded a few of the 4K still frames. They weigh in at 48MB uncompressed tiffs, and the result is astounding. Ive seen uncompressed HD and 2K on professional broadcast monitors and projectors, but I can’t imagine seeing this at native resolution in full motion. Lets let that last link sink in on you. I am insanely jealous.
Stu Maschwitz has built a lil ol’ forum around his action-movies-on-the-cheap book, “The DV Rebel’s Guide“, and like all good forums, the community is working together to solve problems and helping each other out. The problem: how to create a wire-pull blood bag effect. The solution is loads of fun.
Not really useful for your every day visualist gig, but I’m sure those bands you’re working with want a filmclip, and everyone loves some cheezy gangster or action gore.
1.) A “professional pocket camera” - also referred to elsewhere as a handheld camera
2.) A “new line of 4K projectors”
3.) A “new line of 4K displays”
I asked “Plural on both?” he said “Plural on both.”
No timeline, no pricing, no features on any of that beyond the obvious. At this point, I think they’ve learned about saying too much too early, so they are just putting it out there.
For Visualists, I think the RED pocket camera may be more in our pricerange than the RED One. But this is a generally exciting announcement because the sooner more companies get into these markets, the sooner prices will start coming down. Read more.
[tags]RED, HD4NDS, cameras, projectors, monitors, HD[/tags]
HD4NDS’ Mike has been working at the RED booth at NAB, and has a post filled with exclusive stuff, including a short film Peter Jackson shot with the cameras, new RED products coming, and photos with production versions of the camera. Check it out!
[tags]RED, cameras, NAB, HD4NDS, HDV, HD[/tags]
Getting the right gear involves lots of decisions. I often spend an hour or two reviewing filmmakers’ or producers’ needs before we arrive at a system recommendation. Every shop and every project has its own peculiarities, so don’t take this list as gospel. It might be worth (ahem) consulting with someone whose advice you trust to fine-tune your needs, budgets, expectations, technical comfort level, and other factors. Myriad little extras and doodads make the system complete, but those are beyond the scope of this article. Suffice it to say you’ll spend a bit more than the following tallies by the time you’re done.
You go offline for a couple of days and what happens? Only the deluge of RED camera information since it was announced. The Red Digital Cinema website has been updated, and Mike of HD4Indies has been working Red’s booth at IBC and has been furiously blogging his experiences.
The camera still looks a little OMG IT’S TEH FUTUAR kitschy to me, but to be fair I don’t like the design of most Oakley gear, and if Oakley sales are anything to go by a lot of people are going to love the look of this thing. Not that it really matters, at the moment they’re delivering the quality they promised at the price they promised, so people would buy the thing if it was put together Mad Max style from rusted car parts.
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