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ProVideo Coalition.com: Camera Log by Adam Wilt | Founder

Adam gets into Red workflow stuff for the first time, is a good intro for those who haven't been keeping track - I take a lot of stuff for granted that I've been fooling with for a while, whilst Adam sees it as any DoP/post guy would getting their first project on it. Plus, he knows what he's after and is good as sussing out the nitty gritty details:
"This is bleeding-edge stuff. Unfinished. Untested. Undocumented. Beta code, remember?� Yes, REDs are on sale; yes, rental houses have REDs. No, it’s not a finished product; no, there aren’t the levels of documentation and support we’re used to seeing.
I’m not going to pass judgment on whether this is an Evil Thing or a Brilliant Strategy or even a bit of both; all I’m saying is that this is the way it is. Deal with it. If you’re not willing to play guinea pig and roll with the punches, you shouldn’t be playing with RED in the first place."

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Working with RED requires lots of [painful] learning. This is true. It’s not a film camera; it’s not a video camera, it’s a digital mopix camera shooting raw data. The workflows are different from what we’re used to, and some things—like colored overexposed highlights—are things we as end-users haven’t had to deal with before (video cameras process them internally; film’s DlogE curve masks the problem). So there’s definitely New Stuff to be learned.


A good read, check it out if you have an upcoming Red project (or are curious about what post with Red is like).

-mike