The Pro Applications Update 2008-004 (run Software Update) and the Red Final Cut Studio 2 Installer provide access to two new major features.

The first is rewrapping R3D data into QuickTime files that Final Cut can work with natively, though Final Cut’s Log & Transfer interface. There’s some debate about this, but as far as I [...]

There’s a certain demographic which seems to sit around thinking of reasons why the Red One can’t possibly be any good. We’ve all run across these arguments. One that has really been bugging me recently is the notion that RedCode compression somehow constitutes, essentially, cheating; that Red shouldn’t really be considered a high-end camera because [...]

We’re still here, we’ve just been rather busy. Regular updates should start again… about now.

See major new features and menu map. Camera owners can, of course, get it in the usual place.

The biggest enhancements are related to image quality. Red appears to have rather dramatically reduced compression artifacts and noise levels. 16:9 4K is also [...]

This post is going to be a rundown of Red desktop workflow, and will look at both where it stands now and where it’s headed in the future. I had been holding off on this post in the in the hope that REDCINE would be released in time for me to discuss it a bit, [...]

This is basically a rundown of the entire end-to-end system, starting with the sensor and working its way into recording media and post workflow, focusing specifically on points that impact on directly on workflow. Why? Well, I started writing a post just about workflow itself, and I realized I’d need to discuss RAW, which requires [...]