{"id":180,"date":"2008-04-06T11:46:50","date_gmt":"2008-04-06T19:46:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/06\/red-one-camera_experience\/"},"modified":"2016-05-16T19:04:16","modified_gmt":"2016-05-17T02:04:16","slug":"red-one-camera_experience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/red-one-camera_experience\/","title":{"rendered":"My First Red Camera Experience"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Updated 12\/23: Looking to go Red on your next project? <a href=\"http:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/artist\/aaron-proctor\/red-camera\/\">We&#8217;re in business.<\/a> Updated 8\/13: You can <span class=\"removed_link\" title=\"http:\/\/pleasejustsaymyname.com\/\">watch the finished music video at pleasejustsaymyname.com<\/span>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"imageframe imgalignright\" style=\"width:320px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/red-one-camera.jpg\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" alt=\"Director\/DP Aaron Proctor and the Red One camera\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"imagecaption\"><strong>Directing and shooting with the Red One camera<\/strong> Photo by <a href=\"http:\/\/flickr.com\/photos\/tomsmithjr\/2378134062\/\">Tom Smith Jr.<\/a>, drummer for <span class=\"removed_link\" title=\"http:\/\/myspace.com\/negativeblue\">Negative Blue<\/span><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<h3>Stills from the Red footage<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/apdp\/2379211854\/\" title=\"First Look: Negative Blue by aaronproctor, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2053\/2379211854_680dd042b9.jpg\" width=\"320\" height=\"480\" alt=\"First Look: Negative Blue\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/apdp\/2378374607\/\" title=\"First Look: 120fps by aaronproctor, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3051\/2378374607_abcde8e20e.jpg\" width=\"320\" height=\"480\" alt=\"First Look: 120fps\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>I just finished directing and shooting the music video for <a href=\"http:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/film\/negative-blue_crash\/\">Negative Blue&#8217;s &#8220;Crash&#8221;<\/a>, which used the new <a href=\"http:\/\/red.com\/\">Red camera<\/a>. Here is what I learned:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Do the right thing (on set)<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>Hire an owner\/operator, like C.J. Roy, at least as your DIT: tips and tricks will spread through the crew all shoot long<\/li>\n<li>Shoot 4K at the sure-thing aspect ratio of 2:1, instead of 16:9, but dial in your gridlines to operate<\/li>\n<li>Learn what doesn&#8217;t work: there&#8217;s no viewfinder (yet), the product design is a lot of form and only a little function, and the film plane&#8217;s hook for measuring focus is right by the big red record button; expect to discover you&#8217;re own behind-the-scenes footage burning to disk<\/li>\n<li>Suck it up and shoot at half the size &#8212; 2K at 120fps &#8230; or at the technology-limited 113fps if all you&#8217;ve got is CompactFlash cards and not hard drives<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Know your place: you&#8217;re on the bleeding-edge<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>Use double redundancy backups with FW800 and\/or eSATA from <a href=\"http:\/\/fantomdrives.com\/drivedetails.asp?id=139\">Fantom Drives<\/a>; they&#8217;re handy to give one to an editor, too<\/li>\n<li>Think of yourself in the same boat at <a href=\"http:\/\/imdb.com\/name\/nm0001392\/\">Peter Jackson<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/imdb.com\/name\/nm0510731\/\">Doug Liman<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/imdb.com\/name\/nm0001752\/\">Steven Soderbergh<\/a> &#8212; their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.red.com\/shot_on_red\">latest projects<\/a> were shot with this camera &#8212; and then get over it<\/li>\n<li>If you&#8217;re an owner\/soon-to-be-owner, the camera really costs much more than the pricetag ($17,500)<\/li>\n<li>Figure out your post production <a href=\"http:\/\/www.red.com\/workflow\">workflow<\/a>, even though the Red post production workflow isn&#8217;t all that figured all out yet; support is mostly crowdsourced<\/li>\n<li>Upgrade (or downgrade) the camera&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.red.com\/support\">operating system<\/a>: development (and bug-squashing) is fast<\/li>\n<li>Everything you set, short of the focus and aperature, is <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Metadata\">metadata<\/a>; the inside joke of &#8220;fix it in post&#8221; is no longer a joke<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Familiarize yourself with the community<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>Be prepared to share footage with <a href=\"http:\/\/reduser.net\/\">RedUser.net<\/a>, forum of the camera&#8217;s passionate early-adopters<\/li>\n<li>Additional professional film forums about RED: <span class=\"removed_link\" title=\"http:\/\/www.cinematography.com\/forum2004\/?showforum=65\">Cinematography.com > RED<\/span>, <a href=\"http:\/\/forums.creativecow.net\/forum\/redcamera\">CreativeCow.net > RED<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/dvinfo.net\/conf\/forumdisplay.php?f=110\">DVinfo.net > RED<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Apps &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/red.com\/support\/\">RedAlert and RedCine<\/a> &#8212; and the soon-to-be-apps (<a href=\"http:\/\/crimsonworkflow.com\/\">Crimson<\/a>).<\/li>\n<li>Technical reviews: <a href=\"http:\/\/provideocoalition.com\/index.php\/awilt\/story\/working_with_red_footage\/\">ProVideoCoalition.com on .R3D footage<\/a>, <span class=\"removed_link\" title=\"http:\/\/www.coremelt.com\/support\/workflow\/red-camera-10-bit-color-online-workflow-with-fcp-6.0.2.html\">Colorment.com on 10 Bit Color Workflow in FCP 6.0.2<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Videos, both overly promotional (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/finalcutstudio\/action\/?movie=red\">Apple.com<\/a>) and overly detailed (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wonderhowto.com\/community\/member\/mikegoedecke\/playlists\/learn-all-about-the-red-one-camera\/\">WonderHowTo.com \/ IndieRentals.com<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Work samples include Peter Jackson&#8217;s &#8220;Crossing&#8221; demo (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.3dspark.com\/RED_One\/crossing1.mov\">large QuickTime<\/a>) and camera tests hosted at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.redrelay.net\/\">RedRelay.net<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Be prepared to give up shooting film\n<ul>\n<li>Director\/DP Steven Soderburg notes on the company&#8217;s web site, &#8220;I should call up Film on the phone and say, &#8216;I&#8217;ve met someone.'&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/red-one-camera.jpg<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-film","category-web"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/43"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6295,"href":"https:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180\/revisions\/6295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}