Hilarious take off on the iPhone vs. HTC video adapted for RED vs. Alexa
If you have been paying any attention to the Alexa or the RED you really need to watch this. Fair warning – it’s got some profanity!
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If you have been paying any attention to the Alexa or the RED you really need to watch this. Fair warning – it’s got some profanity!
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Here is the post from Last night that “announces” the resolution of the killer bug that has been keeping the EPIC out of our hands. Way to go!
EPIC
We are not just behind schedule anymore… we are embarrassingly late. Trust me when I tell you this is a complicated and aggressive project. When one of the most respected companies in the industry is just releasing their brightest new star that does 1/5 of the resolution, half the maximum frame rate, in a box three times the size and for 3 times the price… that should tell you how tough a trick EPIC is.
Having said that, we have located the wicked, mean and nasty bug and our engineering team has put a bullet in the back of it’s head. That pesky bug has put us behind in our schedule (obviously) since it also held up the work that followed it. We are now making the type of progress we had hoped to be making a few months ago.
We have working EPIC cameras… and are adding features on a daily basis. Firmware upgrades are happening fast and furious. But please remember that we are not going to release a buggy camera with limited features this time, so keep that in mind. Lots of testing, upgrading, new features, bug patrol… and all of the above happening now. The RED ONE is now one of the most reliable cameras in the industry (after a humble beginning)… EPIC will not be a step backward.
During this development/testing time we have made the decision to add 13mm of length to the brain (about 1/2″ for those who are metric challenged), which means lots of new board spins to fit. This is small stuff compared to the battle we just had on monster bug patrol.
Tattoo cameras will go out as soon as we have a stable platform with a standard set of features… production to follow as soon as the Tattoo owners give us the thumbs up. We are in a hurry… but not so much as to get it wrong. I don’t think it is productive to promise another date… but we all are on the same page. The sooner the better.
Scarlet is moving along side the EPIC program as the big bug hit it as well. Production of Scarlet will trail EPIC… not exactly sure by how far. A lot of it has to do with just how fast we can get EPIC production rolling and solid.
In the end… we have a great project going on here. Once again… this is not an easy task (neither was the RED ONE)… which is exactly the way we want it. I wouldn’t want to be anywhere else doing anything different.
OK… next question?
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It’s a big day today for digital cinema – The Arri is shipping. Not really something that I can afford to shoot with but I see this as driving the industry forward. I think that there will be a big impact on the HDSLR market as a direct result of the easy availability of these higher-end digital cinema cameras. … Continue Reading
First iPhone 4 Video that I’ve seen posted – check it out…
It’s pretty shaky – wonder when RedRock is going to have a shoulder rig for the phone… I can almost hear the directory telling the little girl to remember to lick her “ice cream” cone. I guess mashed potatoes don’t really lick that well 
a Majek Picture | majekpictures.com
Shot and edited entirely on the iPhone 4 / iMovie App (in 48 hours).
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Jim makes it clear that he doesn’t consider HDSLR cameras as competition to the RED platform – and in their current incarnation he’s 100% right. He doesn’t seem too concerned about the financial resources available to Canon (et. al) and apparently thinks that they won’t be setting their sites on creating a studio quality movie camera in the near future. I think he’s probably wrong about that!
I fully expect the DSLR mfgs to get it right at some point. Make a non-line-skipping 4K camera. At that point, the difference will be RAW 5K and 6K vs. whatever they make. Until then, a line-skipping 1080P camera is just not in the running for a pro camera. Can you make OK images with a line-skipping 1080P camera? Sure. Should you be embarrassed? Yes. We are not in that business.
I saw the Canon commercial about shooting “motion stills”. They should be ashamed. Just try to take a still from their motion 1080P capture…
Jim
