The Red-One HD Digital Camera
(Thanks to the good Mister Rajneel Singh for bringing this to my attention, along with most of my information on the subject.)
The Red-One HD digital camera is a new entry into the field from company Oakley, who have up until recently produced sunglasses.
It has been subject to some truely vicious rumours and infighting, and their offices have been broken into twice by people seeking their Secrets.
Why? Well, the reason for all the hype is that the Red-One is a High-Definition digital camera that is arguably capable of producing film-quality colours, textures and resolution at a fraction of the cost of current HD digital cameras - almost a 1/10th of the purchasing price of say the Panavision Genesis - used to shoot "Superman Returns" - or the Thompson Viper - used in "Miami Vice."
Some people have been intent on rubbishing the notion and claiming Lies and Trickery. Others have concluded that the camera may be the film-technology equivalent of the Second Coming of Christ. To quote Raj: other people felt this was going to change, in a subtle but powerful way, how movies get made.
And then Peter Jackson got involved.
He invited Oakley down to New Zealand so he could see the cameras in action. They arrived with the two prototypes expecting to put the cameras through their paces in a sensible studio environment. Instead they found Peter Jackson, a hundred extras and some working WW1 era machinery - including bi-planes.
They shot a film with them in two days, and edited the result with Final Cut Studio 2.
There are trailers available in different sizes. Be aware that these trailers are essentially a 75% reduction of the camera's shooting resolution (particulary the short version) which is then encoded and compressed further to get it into a manageable file size.:
The Short (90 megabyte) Trailer:
http://www.3dspark.com/RED_One/crossing1.mov
http://www.pixelquestfilms.com/crossing1.mov
http://www.appliedvisual.com/redclips/crossing1.mov
The Long (230 meg) Trailer:
http://www.appliedvisual.com/redclips/Crossing1k.mov
http://www.emissivity.com/movies/Crossing1k.mov
http://hawkeye.digital-elephant.com/client/redclip/
And because some people asked for them, here are some screenshots:
Pretty, no?
- Kevin.
The Red-One HD digital camera is a new entry into the field from company Oakley, who have up until recently produced sunglasses.
It has been subject to some truely vicious rumours and infighting, and their offices have been broken into twice by people seeking their Secrets.
Why? Well, the reason for all the hype is that the Red-One is a High-Definition digital camera that is arguably capable of producing film-quality colours, textures and resolution at a fraction of the cost of current HD digital cameras - almost a 1/10th of the purchasing price of say the Panavision Genesis - used to shoot "Superman Returns" - or the Thompson Viper - used in "Miami Vice."
Some people have been intent on rubbishing the notion and claiming Lies and Trickery. Others have concluded that the camera may be the film-technology equivalent of the Second Coming of Christ. To quote Raj: other people felt this was going to change, in a subtle but powerful way, how movies get made.
And then Peter Jackson got involved.
He invited Oakley down to New Zealand so he could see the cameras in action. They arrived with the two prototypes expecting to put the cameras through their paces in a sensible studio environment. Instead they found Peter Jackson, a hundred extras and some working WW1 era machinery - including bi-planes.
They shot a film with them in two days, and edited the result with Final Cut Studio 2.
There are trailers available in different sizes. Be aware that these trailers are essentially a 75% reduction of the camera's shooting resolution (particulary the short version) which is then encoded and compressed further to get it into a manageable file size.:
The Short (90 megabyte) Trailer:
http://www.3dspark.com/RED_One
http://www.pixelquestfilms.com
http://www.appliedvisual.com
The Long (230 meg) Trailer:
http://www.appliedvisual.com/redclips/Cr
http://www.emissivity.com/movies/Crossin
http://hawkeye.digital-elephant.com/clie
And because some people asked for them, here are some screenshots:
Pretty, no?
- Kevin.
posted by Kevin Veale at 6:21 PM
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