Just a few tidbits I’ve picked up since the first podcast, from various sources (mostly Reduser.net and other podcasts):

Red lenses

• Red’s 18-50mm zoom should be shipping fairly early. This is good news. It’s the obvious choice for anyone on a budget who doesn’t already have PL-mount glass. (A future post will discuss some of the tradeoffs involved in using Nikon or Canon glass).
• The 18-85mm zoom Red announced previously will still ship, it has just been delayed.

Workflow

• Final Cut Pro 6 won’t support REDCODE natively on the day it ships, but in an update. It sounds like the update won’t take very long, though.
• There will be an FxPlug (which almost certainly means GPU-accellerated) filter in FCP for applying curves, etc. to REDCODE RAW footage.
• There’s also a FCP workflow for Red that involves transcoding to ProRes while ingesting.
• It looks (from some presentation materials I’ve seen in the background of NAB photos), like the standard rate for REDCODE RAW at 4K has dropped to 25 MB/s from 27.5 MB, so you should now be able to store a bit more for the same price.

Footage

• Red has posted some frame grabs from the Peter Jackson short here and here. Looks good. No 4K material and no motion yet, but that should apparently be coming in the next few days. (Probably any video clips will just be a couple of scenes, not the entire short).
• Jim Jannard explains how to shoot bad looking Red footage. No surprises there; the same list applies to any camera. A useful reminder that having great tools is only half the battle.

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