Archive for November, 2008

New Red/Apple FCS workflow

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 [...]

Red’s Nov. 13th announcements: is the Red One obsolete?

Nearly two years ago, I made the following post on RedUser:

Ten years from now it’ll probably be possible to do something significantly better than the RED ONE (higher resolution, higher frame rates, HDR), with a body the size of a present day digital SLR, capturing to commodity storage (hours of footage on the [...]

Red’s Nov. 13th announcements: why so many models?

I assume everyone who reads this blog as seen this by now.

I really love the modular concept here. Red is definitely headed in the right direction in that respect. As for the large number of “brain” options, I was initially concerned, but having thought it through, I think I might have figured it out.

I’ll leave [...]