Red Digital Cinema Camera Company
The Red Digital Cinema Camera Company or short RED is an American manufacturer of digital cinema cameras, lenses, viewfinder and software. The company was founded in late 2005 by Jim Jannard, the former owner and founder of Oakley Inc.
Products
The company provides equipment from different product groups here:
- The Red One is a digital camera with a twelve megapixel CMOS sensor, which is aimed at the film production industry. With her recordings are possible in 3D. It is available with Arri PL, Nikon and Canon lens mount.
- The Epic -X and Epic -M are also digital cameras with a fourteen- megapixel CMOS sensor ( 5K ). They are available with Arri PL lens mount or EF Canon lens mount. The "M " model is manufactured manually in some cases.
- The Scarlet -X is also equipped as a little sister of the Epic cameras with a twelve megapixel CMOS sensor and limited compared to this only in the achievable frame rate.
- Lenses with a PL lens mount for feature film production: zoom lenses 17-50 mm, 18-50 mm, 18-85 mm and 50-150 mm and fixed focal lengths of 18, 25, 35, 50, 75, 100 and 300 mm focal length. Since 2013 RED has ceased production.
- Accessories for digital cinema production, for example, color viewfinder, screens, batteries, chargers, grip / tripod systems and storage solutions.
- Software for post-processing of the RED RAW data offers RED free to download. The original conversion tool RED alert has now been replaced by Redcine X and sell in addition to the processing of the metadata, inter alia, a three -way color correction, digital sharpening, trimming the R3D files, etc. The edited movie clips in different formats (Quicktime, DPX, TIFF, inter alia, be exported for further processing ).
Industry partnerships
Red announced at NAB 2007, the most visited trade fair for film and television production, industrial partnerships with various manufacturers:
- Adobe: As of version CS4 can handle the REDCODE RAW data of the cameras in full quality Adobe Premiere Pro as the first and only editing system. The compositing software After Effects and Color Correction System Speed Grade from the same manufacturer have the same function.
- Apple: The recorded by the camera image sequences can be processed directly in the version 10.0.0.6 with Final Cut Pro X. Furthermore, RED announced to use Apple's QuickTime video subsystem. The two producers then conducted a US-wide road show where they demonstrated the interoperability of their products.
- Assimilate: The U.S. manufacturer Assimilate developed the free program Red Cine, which is based on the film Mastering System Scratch and also works directly with images of the RED camera.
- Cooke Optics: The English Cooke Optics, one of the leading manufacturers of lenses with fixed focal lengths for cinema production, announced that Red cameras and lenses and Cooke lenses by means of the interface " i" will be completely compatible.
- Angenieux: The market-leading manufacturer of zoom lenses for film production lenses developed specifically for the Red One.
Other manufacturers have announced products for Red, including Birger Design (adapter for Canon lenses ) and View Factor Studios ( compendia, motion control, distance meter ).
RED prohibited the direct support of the camera by other manufacturers, according to data from Jim Jannard, until April 2008. Through the supplied with the camera software REDCINE the other manufacturers such as Avid, Autodesk, Quantel, etc. are supported. RED officially justified this with the necessary until March / April 2008 further development work on the file system of the camera. In the meantime, however, has been self- certified by the company's founder, Jim Jannard, that actually marketing and contracts with Apple to April 2008 forced the company to support only Apple / Assimilate.
Film camera " Red One "
- The Red One camera was Mario Award for excellent cameras at NAB 2007 with the one who honors the " technological breakthroughs " by an independent group of representatives of the press and umbrella organizations for television and film production for the most innovative camera of the year.
- Red claims to have received 4500 orders (July 2008) for the camera and would thus in 2007 the market leader in 35-mm movie camera segment.
- Until the beginning of 2011 nearly 8000 cameras were delivered.
- The delivered from May 2007 cameras were custom made. The serial production began in July 2007 with about a month late, and delivery began in late August 2007. From March 2008, about 400 cameras were delivered monthly.
- The first hundred cameras still had manufacturing defects. Red recalled the to November 2007 built cameras and swapped them out.
- RED released free software updates that will unlock new features and fix bugs.
Appearances in films
Since its availability in the summer of 2007, numerous films were shot on the RED.
- The Wallander films of the BBC in 2008 were the first British TV production, in which the Red One was used.
- Peter Jackson turned in March 2007, the short film Crossing the line on Red with Angenieux and Cooke Optics.
- Steven Soderbergh turned Guerrilla entirely with the Red One and Red- optics.
- Alex Proyas used for the entire filming of Knowing the Red One.
- Timur Bekmambetov put the Red One on Wanted mixed with a negative film.
- For the underwater filmmaker Howard Hall, the company Gates Underwater Housings built a custom enclosure for the Red One.
- Peter Jackson turns the frame in the format High Rate 3D ( 48 fps and 3D) produced trilogy The Hobbit among others with 48 RED Epic cameras.
- Ridley Scott's Alien prequel Prometheus - was shot entirely with the Red Epic.
Technical data of the Red One
The main technical data of the camera:
- 4.5 K resolution
- S35- mm sensor for depth of field as 35 mm cameras
- Arri PL port via adapter also B4 2/3, Nikon, Canon, Leica, Panavision
- CMOS image sensor with 12.6 megapixels, 4900 (h ) x 2580 (v ) pixels ( px )
- 1-60 progressive frames per second at S35, 1-120 progressive frames per second at S16
- Recording of compressed RAW data on Compact Flash, SSD drive or HDD module
- REDCODE RAW format, closely based on the graphic format JPEG 2000, data rates of 288 Mbit / s and 224 Mbit / s
- 12 bit color depth
- Störspannungabstand: 66 dB
- 11.3 Aperture dynamic range.