Meeting Notes from Oct 16

All Red. Footage, shooting, acquisition, & color correcting.

Red Digital Cinema I am sure everyone has heard about it.
It was shown and demonstrated at our October meeting, we normally meet on the second Thursday of the month, but due to the availability of the camera we met a week later on 10.17.2008.

Major Litton has arranged a good program. He and Phillip Thomas Director/Cinematographer of  www.torquefilms.com, both have shot some footage with  Red Camera , starting at the State Fair of Texas and finishing at Major’s daughter High-Schools football game.

Major demonstrated a workflow with Red footage, he utilized Apple’s newly designed MacBook Pro, a perfect opportunity to test both products. Red provides 3 different files of your footage, this is an option of 3 proxies depending on the delivery medium, web, TV and other resolutions. In FCP change the Sequence settings to whatever HD or 2K; 2K footage is a resolution of 2048×1152, all Red cameras shoot Progressive.
Here for a screen shot of Red footage

RED has a codec referred to as REDCODE, for instance; it compresses 4K RED RAW into a manageable file size that can be recorded on any media from a compact flash card to a spinning drive. Without REDCODE, a 4K 24 fps information stream runs as high as 20GB/min.
Some Red resolutions
4K 16:9 (4096×2304)
3K 16:9 (3072×1728)
2K 16:9 (2048×1152)

Click here to download a screen shot captured from Red. This is untouched, unadulterated, for anyone to download. Warning – this file is large!

The Audience at the meeting were beyond our normal crowds, they seem to have interests in cinematography elements of Red.
The camera was provided by Brain Mayo of Mayo Production & Equipment, Inc. www.mayovideo.com
for more information about Red Digital Cinema,  log www.red.com
Other important links
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_cinematography
http://www.reduser.net/forum
Some movies have been shot by The Red One
The Argentine 2008, The Informant 2009 both Directed by Steven Soderberg.
Game 2008, Directed by Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor.
Jumper 2008 Directed by Doug Liman of The Bourne Identity fame.
and Knowing 2008, Directed by Australian Alex Proyas

October meeting re-capped by Yasir Salah

Yasir sent me these notes last week – and I forgot to post them. Thanks for the reminder Major.
During my lunch hour ~Wayne