The Agony and the Ecstacy of Shooting Red
The Agony and the Ecstasy of Shooting Red
I’ve just finished directing Big Brother 10 and am now finally getting back to working on some more personal projects. This last weekend I had the opportunity to direct a few scenes for my friend Melodee Lynn‘s acting reel on the RED ONE Camera. After shooting with the Red One I must tell you I love this camera. The images this camera captures is awesome. I was totally blown away by the hole experience, working in television as a director I come across a lot of different cameras and tape formats and out of all the cameras I’ve used this is the closest video camera that I’ve seen that actual looks like film. For this shoot we used my friend Jim Mathers camera and lenses, although we didn’t change lenses much but instead used his optima 200mm-60mm zoom lens. Not changing lenses aloud us to move quickly from set up to set up as we tried do shoot 3 locations in one day.
At first the concept of not having a physical tape at the end of the day is a little unsettling, but you get over that thought quickly once you are screening your dailies over lunch. We had a laptop on set that was down loading files to a back up drive and I was able to take that home that night.
Well I’m on to editing now all I need to do is figure out how to convert the 4k files into ProRess 422 files.
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