Video Resources Inc hosts OC Red User meet up and hardware showcase

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Jan 252012
 

Back in the Fall of 2011, fellow Orange County Red User Justin Nguyen initiated the idea of a Red User get together. The goal was simple – just to get as many of the OC Red owners of Red Ones, Epics, and Scarlets together to share experiences and tips. Well it finally happened last night and we were happy to host it at our Santa Ana facility.

About 20 folks showed up (see picture below of most of them) – most were Red Owners, but several were working DP’s and crew that just wanted to learn more about Red. We spent about 3 hours socializing, and then held a round table discussion about all thing from prep, to rigging, to workflow, to post. Everyone loved sharing all of our unique and common experiences with each other. It was especially helpful to see the various rigs, lenses and accessories that everyone has discovered and are using in the field.

POLLING: We even tossed in a few informal polls on favorite workflow tools. To my surprise, the majority were now using Adobe Premiere. At VR, we certainly own Premier, but are enjoying our upgraded Avid Media Composer Systems running 6.0 and still working with FCP 3 everyday. For backup in the field, most everyone is using finder drag and drop, and back at their facilities, it was 80/20 finder copy over R3D Manager. Everyone was making dual copies when possible for backup and safety, Red owners, were happy with the performance or the cameras in the various shooting conditions. For most projects, Epic shooters are shooting 10:1, but for web deliverables, a few were using 12 or 13:1. We generally shoot between 8:1 (green screen) and 10:1.

Contribute your own experience by completing the poll on the right —->
We will collect the results and share them on our site.

My favorite “hands on” were with the Wooden Camera bits and the 3rd party Canon mount still lenses. Also super cool to see half a dozen OC based Epics and a Scarlet in our studio.We plan to do it on a semi-regular basis, and Justin and I talked about scheduling another around NAB time. If anyone wants to join us, drop me a note here or on reduser.net

BTW: I received our Canon mount for one of our Epics today. It is way cool. I ordered a second one already and I expect to get a lot of use from them :)

Red User Group - Orange County

January Orange County Red User Meet-up

 

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Red Digital and Canon go head to head with competitive announcements tonight

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Nov 032011
 

Both Canon and our Red Digital neighbors are holding press events tonight promising big announcements. What will they be? Both companies have been tight lipped and their is lots of industry speculation.

Will Red introduce Pro Res as a recording option? Will they deliver  Scarlet? Will Jim buy Canon? Canon buy Red? Will Canon introduce the long awaited dedicated video camera based on the Canon 5D mark II large sensor? What is your guess? The clock is ticking.

Here is an article published in the Orange County Business Journal discussing a little Red innovations and the pending annoucements.

OCBJ Canon & Red announcements

Visit the Orange County Business Journal website to view the entire publication.

Kazakhstan Television Crew contract VRi in the USA to train on RED Workflow

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Apr 272011
 

The guys from Kazakhstan along with some of our friends, crew and the Russian translators

Not to be confused with the parody of the country featured in the movie Borat, these guys are from the very real, and very prosperous country of Kazakhstan. Temirbek Amanzhol, Duman Kozhakhmet, and Altynbek Bektassov were part of a television production team that choose Red as their high end production format. They choose Video Resources to train them on everything from camera operation, to data wrangling and creating dailies, through post workflow.

Here is summary agenda of those days:

Day One: 
Production Training on Red Camera: 
1- Technical aspects of the camera and its operations — Conducted by Brad Hagen and VR staff
2- The accessories needed and how to best utilize them — Conducted by Brad Hagen and VR staff.
3- Lighting for the Red camera — Conducted by John Frost, DP
4- On location filming test  – Supervised by John Frost, DP
5- Data management — Conducted by Joe Hedge, Assistant Editor and Expert Data Wrangler.

Day Two: 
Red Camera Post-Production workflow:  (using the footage that was filmed on Day One)
1- Exploring the different post-production workflows — Conducted by Brad Hagen and VR staff.
2- Down-converting the R3D files for editing in Final Cut Pro and managing and organizing the files in Final Cut Pro.– Conducted by Joe Hedge
3- Exporting and confirming files Online process – Conducted by Joe Hedge
4- Color Correction using R3Ds using Color — Conducted by VR staff
5- Exporting media for different delivery formats — Conducted by Loren White, Brad Hagen.

If you are interested in a private workshop on the RED drop us a line to discuss schedule and other details.

Zeiss Compact Primes used on Zeiss Commercial

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Nov 022010
 

Last year we produced a national spot for Zeiss Vision using our Red One. Of course, it was a natural to use Zeiss optics and the spot turned out great. We partnered on the creative and shot the spot on green screen in our studio space. All the VFX was done in house and using the 4K real estate of the RED image we did all re-cropping and zooms in post. This was shot with the original Mysterium chip in our Red One.

I have included a behind the scenes little promo we did for their national meeting in this clip.

Hope you enjoy.

Discussion on using DSLR’s in production

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Feb 172010
 

At Video Resources we are all about finding the right solutions for each project. Though we love the RED images and workflow, sometimes other cameras such as a DSLR fit the bill or compliment our RED footage. DSLR is simply shorthand for Digital Single Lens Reflex Camera. More relevant is the video component of these DSLR cameras, which confuses the situation and the naming scheme as you will also see references to HDSLR or VSLR.

Today the most popular cameras in this arena are the Canon 5D, 7D, and the new, reasonably priced 550D/Rebel T2i, the Nikon D90, and Panasonic Lumix DMC-GH1. We own Canon 5D and 7D camera systems with various lenses and accessories and find that they suit our needs very well. I will plan a special report on how we use these cameras in our productions, but in summary we use them as primary cameras, but mostly for B-camera and background plate work. Continue reading »

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