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Rapture - Beautiful Images of American Southwest

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This is production footage Tom Lowe shot over the summer for his debut film, "TimeScapes," a modern portrait of the American Southwest, using Canon and Red MX cameras. Follow the film's production here.

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A very basic guide to using the RED camera

This is all made for fun, but has some serious undertones about the deskilling of film & TV. More Red DOP fun over on the very funny Facebook Page

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Stream the HDMI output of your DSLR over Wifi using Teradek's shoe mounted Cube

 

In the past it's always been a bit of a problem getting a monitoring signal out of a DSLR so other people can watch. Indiespot.tv caught up with Teradek's Rod Clark at the DV Expo.

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Interview with RED's Ted Schilowitz about the EPIC

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Ted from RED updates us on all things EPIC.

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The Original Wooden Box - The RED prototype

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Amazing to think back that the first prototype RED One was made in a wooden box with a Sigma lens attached.

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The Hobbit to be filmed on RED's new EPIC camera

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Peter Jackson enjoying his new ''Hobbit''. The man behind the Lord Of The Rings trilogy announces he will use RED EPIC for his two-part 3D adaptation of The Hobbit. 

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A Canon 60D versus RED, the audience decides

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UK broadcaster Channel Five conduct a video challenge on The Gadgest Show between a Canon 60D and the RED camera. It might turn some people's stomachs but we loved the dirty fingernail shot in the second short!

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First Public Footage of Red Scarlet Fixed Lens Camera

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Tonaci Tran certainly moves and shakes with those RED people. He went to RED Studios to work on the Santa Fe 3D Workshop and got to handle the Red Scarlet Fixed Lens camera.

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STORM: RED digital camera workflow on FCP.

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Visual Effects innovator The Foundry have developed STORM which assists RED Digital Camera workflows. There's a Public Beta available for download until 1 March 2011. Take a look here.

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Will FCP & other NLEs be killed off by Open Source Lightworks?

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Well it is not a completely idiotic thought. If you can remember back to editing in the early nineties, there were only two NLEs on the block, Lightworks and Avid. Everybody knows the Avid story, but could Lightworks be coming back to change the market again? Links, opinion and a video tour of the GUI after the break.

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RED Scarlet camera caught on the way to CES show

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You have to admire that Tonaci Tran, he gets to see the right people at the right time with the right kit. On a recent visit to Red Studios, he managed to doorstep Ted Schilowitz on the way to CES with a Scarlet in his hand. Makes me smile that the video was hot on an iPhone though. Ironic?

 UPDATED 8th Jan  Ted & Scarlet camera get featured on Guardian TV after the break.

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10 Things Every Camera Assistant Should Know About the RED Camera

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Here's a good one for all you camera assistants out there trying to force your way in the business. The top ten things every camera assistant should know about the RED Camera. Find out what they are after the break.

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Unboxing, assembling, shooting and reviewing the new Red Epic-M model number 00008

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A series of videos from Ketch Rossi and Steve Gibby following their 'Epic' adventure from the DHL man arriving to on location shooting with their Red Epic-M. Let's say that not only were these guys seriously excited, but also they were pretty impressed by camera number 00008. 

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You just might have some anti moiré plugins installed in Final Cut Pro already

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As much as we love our Canon 5D, you would not want to shoot a documentary on the history of lace with it. Why? The dreaded moiré striping effects you can see above on the left hand side example. However you might have a couple of plugins installed already that will fix the problem.

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Is Canon the first camera company to announce support for Thunderbolt? This is huge news

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How huge? When Thunderbolt was released we had a chat with HD Warrior, the website that we read for breaking news on cameras. We said it was only a matter of time before camera companies jumped on this new technology. Find out what our chat predicted after the break as this little connector will change the industry again.

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Law & Order promo shot on two Red Epics and yes it does look stunning

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This just popped up over the weekend. A pretty cool promo for Law & Order shot on two Red Epics. We do love DSLRs here, but we have to admit that this promo shot at 120 FPS looks stunning.

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MacVideo take a hands-on look at the Red Scarlet during NAB 2011

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Not only does Rick Young take a good look at the camera, he also hits Red's Ted Schilowitz with a few questions that we all have about Scarlet. We are going to have to hide our credit cards in a few months!

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Chromagic the Final Cut Pro 7 FXPlug plugin and iPad color correction combo now available for $25

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Graeme Nattress is a legend in the editing world, you've probably come across his excellent film look plugins. Today he's launched Chromagic, a colour correction plugin for Final Cut Pro that you can control with an iPad.

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Rodney Charters talks about the impact of DSLRs, Alexa and Red

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This 17 minute chat from MacVideo with Rodney Charters proved to be some thoughtful viewing over our morning tea. Lessons to be learnt for shooters and editors.

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November 3rd - A big day for announcements

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***Updated with link to Canon & Red liveblogs***

What a news day today is going to be! Three huge announcements from three large companies, Canon, Red and Avid all have special events planned.

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