Our combined May meeting of the Washington DC Apple Final Cut Pro Users Group (DCFCPUG), DC After Effects and the DC Digital SLR (DCDSLR) will be an exciting knowledge sharing event!
Adam Lubkin and Zhibo Lai will be presenting the following agenda:

• Intro to the RED Epic camera
• How to shoot with it
• Show some sample footage and HDRx clips as well
• Shoot a few seconds of live footage
• Shoot same footage using a DSLR
• Downloading media
• Workflow demos using FCP, Color, Redcine X, and AE
• Compare/contrast footage from Epic and DSLR
• Q&A

REGISTER EARLY AND SHOW UP ON TIME AS THIS WILL BE A FULL HOUSE EVENT!

Tuesday, 24 May 2011
Time: Doors open at 6PM for networking time, event starts around 6:30PM..

COVERED PARKING – AVAILABLE

Our combined May meeting of the Washington DC Apple Final Cut Pro Users Group (DCFCPUG), DC After Effects and the DC Digital SLR (DCDSLR) will be an exciting knowledge sharing event!
Adam Lubkin and Zhibo Lai will be presenting the following agenda:

• Intro to the RED Epic camera
• How to shoot with it
• Show some sample footage and HDRx clips as well
• Shoot a few seconds of live footage
• Shoot same footage using a DSLR
• Downloading media
• Workflow demos using FCP, Color, Redcine X, and AE
• Compare/contrast footage from Epic and DSLR
• Q&A

REGISTER EARLY AND SHOW UP ON TIME AS THIS WILL BE A FULL HOUSE EVENT!

Tuesday, 24 May 2011
Time: Doors open at 6PM for networking time, event starts around 6:30PM..

COVERED PARKING – AVAILABLE

Our May meeting features a RED owner, ALAN Lubkin and his RED EPIC!

Looks like another director’s been on a shopping spree lately, as RED’s Jim Jannard’s just announced that he sold another 50 EPIC-Ms to one generous customer. Who’s this, you ask? Why, it’s James Cameron of Avatar and Titanic fame, and he’s probably just blown $2.9 million on his latest stash of cinematographic toys — it’s $58,000 a pop for these hand-machined professional cameras. Details are scarce at the moment, but any educated guess would point at the upcoming Avatar 2 due end of 2014, meaning our favorite blue aliens will be returning in a healthy 5K resolution. Keep an eye out for Jannard’s official announcement later this week for the full lowdown.

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Source: REDUSER

We’re still slightly bummed that Peter Jackson never made Halo, but this should patch things up a tad — the Lord of the Rings director will film The Hobbit in 3D entirely on thirty hand-machined RED EPIC cameras, starting early next year. That’s the news straight from RED founder Jim Jannard, but that’s not all, as a limited number of pre-production EPIC packages will be available to early adopters as well.

$58,000 buys your deep-pocketed budding director a machined EPIC-M body, titanium PL mount, Bomb EVF and 5-inch touchscreen LCD, a REDmote, a four-pack of batteries, a charger and a solid state storage module with a four-pack of 128GB SSDs. Jannard expects to hand-assemble that first batch of 5K imagers in December or January, start the real assembly lines a month after that, and hopefully have widespread availability by NAB in April, though he’s not making any promises there. That’s how RED rolls.

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Hobbits on Red Epics.

Peter Jackson’s two film adaptation of The Hobbit will be shot in 3D using RED DIGITAL CINEMA’S soon to be released EPIC Digital Cameras.

The successor to RED’s industry changing RED ONE, the EPIC has 5K resolution, can shoot up to 120 frames per second and has a new HDRx™ mode for the highest dynamic range of any digital cinema camera ever made. Taking everything they had learned from building their first camera, RED designed the EPIC from scratch and have produced a smaller, lighter camera that is an order of magnitude more powerful.

The Hobbit will be amongst the first productions in the world to use the EPIC and at least thirty cameras will be required by the 3-D production. The EPIC’S small size and relatively low weight, makes it perfect for 3-D – where two cameras have to be mounted on each 3D rig.

Jackson has a long history with RED, dating back to when he directed the short film ‘Crossing the Line’ as a very early test of prototype RED ONE cameras. “I have always liked the look of Red footage.” he says, “I’m not a scientist or mathematician, but the image Red produces has a much more filmic feel than most of the other digital formats. I find the picture quality appealing and attractive, and with the Epic, Jim and his team have gone even further. It is a fantastic tool, the Epic not only has cutting edge technology, incredible resolution and visual quality, but it is also a very practical tool for film makers. Many competing digital systems require the cameras to be tethered to large cumbersome VTR machines. The Epic gives us back the ability to be totally cable free, even when working in stereo.”

Jim Jannard the owner and founder of RED flew to New Zealand earlier this year with members of his team so that Jackson could test the EPIC and assess its suitability. “Everybody at RED is incredibly proud that Peter has chosen the Epic” says Jannard, “The Hobbit is a major production, and could have chosen any camera system that they wanted. The fact that they went with us is extremely gratifying.”

Insane Specs

Mysterium-X at the heart of the brain
Massive 5K RAW resolution sensor
Records full resolution 100 FPS to postage stamp
Magic of FLUT Color Science and REDCOE
Incredible 13.5 stops of dynamic range

Go HERE for more info…
Listen to Post Pit and Digital Production BuZZ on the latest from the NABshow activities.. the CEO of RED will be here!

Size matters…

EPIC format sizes:

5120 x 2700 • 5K Full Frame
4800 x 2700 • 5K HD
5120 x 2560 • 5K 2:1
5120 x 2134 • 5K 2.4:1
4480 x 1920 • 4.5 Wide
4096 x 2304 • 4K 16:9
3840 x 2160 • 4K HD
4096 x 2048 • 4K 2:1
4096 x 1706 • 4K 2.4:1
3072 x 1728 • 3K 16:9
2880 x 1620 • 3K for HD
3072 x 1536 • 3K 2:1
3072 x 1280 • 3K 2.4:1
2048 x 1152 • 2K 16:9
2048 x 1024 • 2K 2:1
2048 x 853 • 2K 2.4:1
1920 x 1080 • 1080 HD

RED ONE Mysterium-X format sizes:

4480 x 1920 • 4.5 Wide
4096 x 2304 • 4K 16:9
3840 x 2160 • 4K HD
4096 x 2048 • 4K 2:1
4096 x 1706 • 4K 2.4:1
3072 x 1728 • 3K 16:9
2880 x 1620 • 3K for HD
3072 x 1536 • 3K 2:1
3072 x 1280 • 3K 2.4:1
2048 x 1152 • 2K 16:9
2048 x 1024 • 2K 2:1
2048 x 853 • 2K 2.4:1
1920 x 1080 • 1080 HD
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