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okay sorry about that just with all the stress this camera has put me through

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over the last six months i needed a quick snack before i get started one

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moment please

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now red cameras are inherently difficult to review because their modularity

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allows nearly unlimited different configurations so i'll focus on the

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build that we chose for flexibility today and easy adaptability for more

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specialized rigs in the future we ended up with more first party

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accessories than many users because my personal experience and anecdotal

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evidence suggests that third-party accessories can lead to compatibility

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issues down the road and at least if we experience a device failure there's only

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one contact we need for support something we did end up needing more on

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that later as for audio when Linus did his original

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unboxing for the weapon we had planned to use the off hollywood omod but after

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a few weeks it would be generous to say that for 2500 it wasn't giving us the

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audio quality we expected so when beachtek offered to send us their new

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dxa cine and dxa alexa we were really excited to find a solution that didn't

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compromise on quality or workflow synchronizing audio in post is fine for

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feature films but it's a nightmare for our rigorous daily release schedule the

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dxa alexa is our daily driver now thanks to its two full-size xlr inputs and

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phantom power but the dxa cine is smaller gives you the same fine control

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with hardware buttons and is much less expensive if you're running and gunning

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with powered mics like sennheiser's avx system or something that doesn't need

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power like a rode video might go okay enough about audio let's talk about

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the most obvious reason you want to buy this camera the sensor in the weapon

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body or brain as red likes to call it their helium sensor shoots at a whopping

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81.92 by 4320 at up to 60 frames per

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second but the benefit of this is not immediately obvious to the average

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person it's not about publishing at 8k for the dozen or so people out there

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with ak displays it's about flexibility in post being able to stabilize and

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punch in with a very minimal loss in image quality is great and for vfx work

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it can be an absolute godsend but don't take my word for it hello you're

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probably wondering what the heck i'm doing here my name is nico and i'm part of a channel called corridor and we

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shoot a lot of stuff on the red cameras and Linus and brandon asked me to actually talk about resolution because

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these cameras shoot up to 8k but tvs only go up to 4k so why shoot in the

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higher resolution if no one has a display to watch it there's actually a couple useful things that it does or

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that enables a filmmaker to do for example when you shoot ak footage you

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can zoom into the footage reframe it crop it pan and scan without any

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noticeable loss of sharpness up to a certain point of course but you can zoom

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in 150 180 sometimes even 200 and you

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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

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he can get those perfect symmetrical compositions because in post they'll go

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in and reframe the frame to make it perfect another thing you can do with

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the extra resolution is get better motion tracking because more resolution

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means more detail to track more detail to track means more points more points

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means a better camera solve so for visual effects artists the extra resolution can be nice and finally

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the thing that i find most useful is down sampling so if you're shooting in

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8k and you're delivering to a 4k television

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well you down sample that 8k 4k that means that you take four pixels and

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average them out to one pixel for delivery so it makes your image cleaner

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for example if it's underexposed or you push the color grade quite a bit and

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it's starting to get noisy that noise starts to disappear and if you're delivering to 1080p and you're shooting

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in 8k that's a 16 to 1 pixel ratio so

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you're taking 16 pixels averaging them down to one pixel for 1080p delivery

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meaning you have a lot more leeway with getting grainy footage or pushing your

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color grade and maybe it's not perfect but once you downsample it that far it

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looks really clean so there's a couple different perks for a filmmaker to shoot

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in a higher resolution and those are just some of them anyways i hope that was useful hope i could help a little

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bit and i'll give it back to brandon thanks

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but resolution is actually just a small part of the story here much more

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important is helium's impressive 16.5 stops of dynamic range the 10 years of

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work redis put into their color science and the post-production flexibility

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afforded by the proprietary red code raw file format some of you might not know

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this but outside of Linus tech tips i actually spend a great deal of my

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personal time shooting shorts web series and pretty stock footage that i mostly

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don't get paid for but i do it because i love it and i guess that's where the

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weapon shines for me flexibility every time i take it or it's little cousin the

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epic w out into the world usually with a ferocious guard dog to keep us both safe

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it puts a big smile on my face both during shooting and while reviewing

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footage later this gear was obviously a huge investment for us as a company but

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shooting a mix of our daily releases our bigger projects and my personal stuff

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i've been hard pressed to find something anything i can throw at in the real

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world that it can't handle and that's ignoring the fun yes i find

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it fun upgrading the files in premiere even at high compression ratios which

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helps us save space on red's proprietary mini mag ssds i am super impressed by

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how much latitude there is especially when trying to pull out details out of

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dark areas of a scene even at a high iso

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which is an area where the previous 6k dragon sensors struggled not to mention

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that as a relatively new red user the ability to change iso or white balance

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after the fact contribute a layer of flexibility that i am still getting used

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to however this flexibility is not an

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excuse for shooting incorrectly in the first place like any piece of

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professional equipment a red weapon does not make you the next roger deakins sure

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you can crank the iso to 2000 in an effort to mask your lighting errors with

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a high quality camera and a lot of people would never notice but to truly

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get the most out of it you have to be aware that a camera has a native iso

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where its dynamic range capabilities are ideal and everything lighting makeup nd

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filters exposure aperture shutter speed everything needs to be balanced to get

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the right amount of light on the sensor if you want the highest quality digital

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negative and that's important because with red's

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new image processing pipeline even users of older red cameras can go back and

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reprocess the red raw footage with ipp2 for a fairly significant improvement in

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image quality it's still beta but it shows a dedication to support that i

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have to admire okay so this is the dream camera that

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everyone thinks it is right smooth sailing right

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well actually like any camera nerd i was more

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excited than i had almost ever been to open a box when it arrived but from day

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one until now we've had such a laundry list of issues with both of our cameras

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that i don't have enough time to talk about all of them so i'll just give you

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the highlights our biggest consistent issue has been with our 960 gig mini max

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i've heard the arguments defending red's proprietary SSD media it's more reliable

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and therefore worth the high cost but any SSD can fail and while we haven't

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actually lost any footage between these stress inducing mounting issues and

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having four of our 960g mags fail over a span of six months i'm with Linus on

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this one the solution to reliable storage remember this is a camera that

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might be used for a 50 million dollar production or higher is not three

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thousand dollar mcat ssds no matter how much pixie dust is in them the actual

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solution to reliable storage is redundancy two reds credit they offered

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us a three year warranty upgrade for both of our cameras with two free 960

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gig mags as a way of saying sorry your seven inch display mags weapon brain and

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epic w brain twice had to be r made but

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just speaking honestly as a customer it's caused delays in our production

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schedule and hasn't given us the warm and fuzzy feeling that we should be

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getting when we're buying the best of the best with all of that said however Linus

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might feel about the price tag we clearly haven't boxed them back up for a

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refund are they overkill for youtube yes but does that mean we will continue

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to bring you guys videos shot in 8k anyway

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also yes we aren't going to turn into fanboys but the image quality and

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flexibility have brought us into the red ecosystem for the foreseeable future

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