Sean Oneil
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The manual is available on the RED website. It has everything you need to know about the camera. Remember, it’s just a camera. Not your line producer or post production supervisor.
[daryl k davis] “- Methods in managing vast amounts of media from each day’s shooting
They support 320GB hard drives which hold 180 min of 4k 2:1. You can probably even use generic eSATA drives, although I don’t know this for certain.
– How audio is handled (single system or post-syncing with double system)
Looking at the picture I see XLR and timecode connectors. So I’m sure you can use whatever system you want.
– Integration with Cinema Tools
Not sure what you would want to use CT for. Since it’s not film you don’t need it.
– Outputting DVD dailies
It outputs 720p over HD-SDI. You can connect that to whatever recording device you want. You can also plug the hard drives into an on-site computer and create DVDs however you like. They are just Quicktime movies recorded to a hard drive.
– Both film-out (DI) and HD broadcast deliveries
The REDCINE supports DPX output for a DI. AJA and Blackmagic products also come with tools covert Quicktime to and from DPX.I’m not in field production, and I’ve never used a RED. I’m just trying to give you some common sense answers. The reason so many people are attracted to this product is because you get the quality of film yet a very simple video-only type of post workflow. No reason to make it harder than it needs to be.
Sean
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[Matthew Bruder] “That mpeg2 file is then portable across a bunch of other PC-based systems. If I render an edited timeline at 100% quality, mpeg2, file at 25mbps from Premiere, there is no detectable loss in quality that I can see. I know it’s there, b/c I understand that any time any mpeg2 is rendered out in this way there’s going to be a compression process. Why choose 25mbps? Well that’s the theoretical bitrate its coming off the camera (I’m sure you knew that too) so now I have an edit that is very close to the quality of the original capture. “
The HDV file on your Mac resides within a Quicktime wrapper (.MOV). In order to use it in Windows natively without any quality loss, it will need to be re-wrapped (not re-encoded) as HDV with a Video for Windows wrapper (.AVI).
A quick Google search and I found this program which (among other things) claims it can re-wrap HDV:
https://toolfarm.stores.yahoo.net/cineformneohdv.htmlIt’s $250. I don’t know why or how badly you need a cross-platform HDV workflow. For a lot less than that you could get a firewire card for your PC and capture directly with Premiere. I strongly suggest taking a step back and re-evaluate your workflow plans. As someone here mentioned, Motion-JPEG is a good option.
Sean
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[Bob Zelin] “Let’s take a nice Beta SX master (for example). You take the COMPOSITE VIDEO out of the Beta SX VTR (this could be Digi Beta, this could be Beta, etc.), you send it into a COMPOSITE ROUTER. The output of the router goes into an ANALOG COMPOSITE Frame Sync TBC (let’s degrade it further, so we can make sure those video levels are not illegal), and THEN we send it into the COMPOSITE input of a Harmonic MPEG Encoder, so it can be sent to the on air server. “Your kidding me”, you are saying right now – NO I WISH I WAS KIDDING. This is typical of what your multi million dollar cable system does with your pristine master tape. AND THEN it may get routed to a satellite (if it’s not a wired cable system).”
Sadly, this doesn’t shock me one bit. This is exactly why I think DVCam would be a better choice in this scenario. A digital tape format will be hurt less by this (even if only a little) than an analog one.
Sean
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6.02 is very stable compared to earlier versions of FCP 4-6.
Sean
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[Jeremy Garchow] “If you have to use Compressor. I’d do an NTSC downconvert @ 23.98 and let you Blackmagic card add the pulldown on output. For the PAL version, I’d Duplicate the HD 23.98 export (self contained) and conform that to 25 fps via Cinema Tools. I would then take that HD movie and down convert in COmpressor for PAL keeping everything progressive.”
I agree with this. Keep it at 23.98 and let the BM card add the pulldown. Compressor will scale better if it’s a progressive format.
Sean
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What is your SD deliverable? Digibeta?
Sean
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[David Roth Weiss] ”
You should try DVCAM. Even though it has a lower bitrate, it is sharper, and may suffer less than analog when getting hit on its way to the bird.”I’m gonna agree with David here. DVCam will probably compress a lot better.
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[Jeff Carpenter] “By that logic we should all be running 4 different opperating systems on our computers. Kind of risky to depend on just one for everything.
Hmmm…on second thought, with 16 core computers just around the corner and virtualization programs springing up left and right, this might be what everyone will be doing in the future. “
Well it’s the present and I’m running three operating systems ;D
Sean
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Note that there are SATA to IDE adapters available if you need one on a G5 or something.
Sean