okay sorry about that just with all the stress this camera has put me through
over the last six months i needed a quick snack before i get started one
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now red cameras are inherently difficult to review because their modularity
allows nearly unlimited different configurations so i'll focus on the
build that we chose for flexibility today and easy adaptability for more
specialized rigs in the future we ended up with more first party
accessories than many users because my personal experience and anecdotal
evidence suggests that third-party accessories can lead to compatibility
issues down the road and at least if we experience a device failure there's only
one contact we need for support something we did end up needing more on
that later as for audio when Linus did his original
unboxing for the weapon we had planned to use the off hollywood omod but after
a few weeks it would be generous to say that for 2500 it wasn't giving us the
audio quality we expected so when beachtek offered to send us their new
dxa cine and dxa alexa we were really excited to find a solution that didn't
compromise on quality or workflow synchronizing audio in post is fine for
feature films but it's a nightmare for our rigorous daily release schedule the
dxa alexa is our daily driver now thanks to its two full-size xlr inputs and
phantom power but the dxa cine is smaller gives you the same fine control
with hardware buttons and is much less expensive if you're running and gunning
with powered mics like sennheiser's avx system or something that doesn't need
power like a rode video might go okay enough about audio let's talk about
the most obvious reason you want to buy this camera the sensor in the weapon
body or brain as red likes to call it their helium sensor shoots at a whopping
81.92 by 4320 at up to 60 frames per
second but the benefit of this is not immediately obvious to the average
person it's not about publishing at 8k for the dozen or so people out there
with ak displays it's about flexibility in post being able to stabilize and
punch in with a very minimal loss in image quality is great and for vfx work
it can be an absolute godsend but don't take my word for it hello you're
probably wondering what the heck i'm doing here my name is nico and i'm part of a channel called corridor and we
shoot a lot of stuff on the red cameras and Linus and brandon asked me to actually talk about resolution because
these cameras shoot up to 8k but tvs only go up to 4k so why shoot in the
higher resolution if no one has a display to watch it there's actually a couple useful things that it does or
that enables a filmmaker to do for example when you shoot ak footage you
can zoom into the footage reframe it crop it pan and scan without any
noticeable loss of sharpness up to a certain point of course but you can zoom
in 150 180 sometimes even 200 and you
can't tell that it was zoomed in david fincher actually does this quite a bit on house of cards it's one of the ways
he can get those perfect symmetrical compositions because in post they'll go
in and reframe the frame to make it perfect another thing you can do with
the extra resolution is get better motion tracking because more resolution
means more detail to track more detail to track means more points more points
means a better camera solve so for visual effects artists the extra resolution can be nice and finally
the thing that i find most useful is down sampling so if you're shooting in
8k and you're delivering to a 4k television
well you down sample that 8k 4k that means that you take four pixels and
average them out to one pixel for delivery so it makes your image cleaner
for example if it's underexposed or you push the color grade quite a bit and
it's starting to get noisy that noise starts to disappear and if you're delivering to 1080p and you're shooting
in 8k that's a 16 to 1 pixel ratio so
you're taking 16 pixels averaging them down to one pixel for 1080p delivery
meaning you have a lot more leeway with getting grainy footage or pushing your
color grade and maybe it's not perfect but once you downsample it that far it
looks really clean so there's a couple different perks for a filmmaker to shoot
in a higher resolution and those are just some of them anyways i hope that was useful hope i could help a little
bit and i'll give it back to brandon thanks
but resolution is actually just a small part of the story here much more
important is helium's impressive 16.5 stops of dynamic range the 10 years of
work redis put into their color science and the post-production flexibility
afforded by the proprietary red code raw file format some of you might not know
this but outside of Linus tech tips i actually spend a great deal of my
personal time shooting shorts web series and pretty stock footage that i mostly
don't get paid for but i do it because i love it and i guess that's where the
weapon shines for me flexibility every time i take it or it's little cousin the
epic w out into the world usually with a ferocious guard dog to keep us both safe
it puts a big smile on my face both during shooting and while reviewing
footage later this gear was obviously a huge investment for us as a company but
shooting a mix of our daily releases our bigger projects and my personal stuff
i've been hard pressed to find something anything i can throw at in the real
world that it can't handle and that's ignoring the fun yes i find
it fun upgrading the files in premiere even at high compression ratios which
helps us save space on red's proprietary mini mag ssds i am super impressed by
how much latitude there is especially when trying to pull out details out of
dark areas of a scene even at a high iso
which is an area where the previous 6k dragon sensors struggled not to mention
that as a relatively new red user the ability to change iso or white balance
after the fact contribute a layer of flexibility that i am still getting used
to however this flexibility is not an
excuse for shooting incorrectly in the first place like any piece of
professional equipment a red weapon does not make you the next roger deakins sure
you can crank the iso to 2000 in an effort to mask your lighting errors with
a high quality camera and a lot of people would never notice but to truly
get the most out of it you have to be aware that a camera has a native iso
where its dynamic range capabilities are ideal and everything lighting makeup nd
filters exposure aperture shutter speed everything needs to be balanced to get
the right amount of light on the sensor if you want the highest quality digital
negative and that's important because with red's
new image processing pipeline even users of older red cameras can go back and
reprocess the red raw footage with ipp2 for a fairly significant improvement in
image quality it's still beta but it shows a dedication to support that i
have to admire okay so this is the dream camera that
everyone thinks it is right smooth sailing right
well actually like any camera nerd i was more
excited than i had almost ever been to open a box when it arrived but from day
one until now we've had such a laundry list of issues with both of our cameras
that i don't have enough time to talk about all of them so i'll just give you
the highlights our biggest consistent issue has been with our 960 gig mini max
i've heard the arguments defending red's proprietary SSD media it's more reliable
and therefore worth the high cost but any SSD can fail and while we haven't
actually lost any footage between these stress inducing mounting issues and
having four of our 960g mags fail over a span of six months i'm with Linus on
this one the solution to reliable storage remember this is a camera that
might be used for a 50 million dollar production or higher is not three
thousand dollar mcat ssds no matter how much pixie dust is in them the actual
solution to reliable storage is redundancy two reds credit they offered
us a three year warranty upgrade for both of our cameras with two free 960
gig mags as a way of saying sorry your seven inch display mags weapon brain and
epic w brain twice had to be r made but
just speaking honestly as a customer it's caused delays in our production
schedule and hasn't given us the warm and fuzzy feeling that we should be
getting when we're buying the best of the best with all of that said however Linus
might feel about the price tag we clearly haven't boxed them back up for a
refund are they overkill for youtube yes but does that mean we will continue
to bring you guys videos shot in 8k anyway
also yes we aren't going to turn into fanboys but the image quality and
flexibility have brought us into the red ecosystem for the foreseeable future
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