Anyone heard of the “Red” camera yet?

[Graeme Nattress]

It’s highly interesting. Only problem is that those “in the know” can’t say because of NDA, and those who don’t know can just speculate….

Graeme

– http://www.nattress.com – Film Effects and Standards Conversion for FCP

[Don Greening]

Indeed. What I would be curious about is how it would compare to say, the Thompson Viper, which has often been described as the biggest, baddest digital motion picture camera in all the land. But like yourself, I’m in the latter of the two groups you mentioned, and can only speculate. Something new to see at NAB 2006 I guess.

– Don

[Alan Okey]

I’d like to see a shootout between the Thompson Viper and the Dalsa Origin…

[Chris Poisson]

Don,

Yikes!

My guess is this won’t be the last of these kind of things…..

Have a wonderful day.

[Tony]

The pre-release hype may be great but what really counts are a couple of major items.

Does the post production workflow and equipment already exist and is it in currently in place? If not then will the post equipment and workflow be available with the release of the camera?

Does anyone recall when the Varicam was first released the lack of linear and NLE facility options? There were very few linear facilities that could handle dvcpro HD and they were only available in major cities. Sony on the other hand already had HDCAM facilities and a workflow infrastructure before the F900 camera was released.

My motto is “If you can’t edit it then don’t shoot it” this includes numerous factors including ease of editing, cost of editing, availability of numerous editorial resources to obtain services as well as affordable rates.

In addition to the post production workflow we also need to ask does a field production workflow exist whereby the recording devices required are portable, battery operated, and can survive under harsh real world field production environments.

Anyone who has worked on a major film production can relate to the rigors any field production equipment has to endure day in and day out. Testing and shooting in a controlled lab environment is ill suited for the real world under the controlled chaos which a client creates.

Tony Salgado

Tony Salgado