Allen Kellogg

To be honest, the postflow is pretty worked out as far as I can tell so long as you have an Avid or FCP system on a powerful machine. S Mac would have to have an intel processor with FCP 6, a PC would have to have at least a duel core with an 8700 NVIDIA graphics card. I have the PC and Avid covered already so that helps make my choice as well. If all of what I've read and watched seen from an Avid technician, it should be pretty smooth sailing if you understand what you're doing, just a long render process. Thanks everyone for your input. Red it is and renting some good lenses for a while. I really appreciate everyone's input. It has seriously been like a full week of figuring this issue out between the Sonys the 3000 and to be honest I never thought we'd end up with the red as I had heard a lot of Post problems from people. To be honest (and I can't say it's from experience as I still haven't touched one yet) but I think for many they can't wrap their brains around what the post flow is and/or don't understand it. This leads to frustration to saying that it's worthless. This is only of course if the workflow goes as flawlessly as I understand it to from what I've read. Thanks again everyone. Allen Kellogg

Okay. So no adapter on the 3000. The footage I've seen there does look great. Over the past night I did some more reading up on the Red and the flow of post. As an editor I understand it and it really isn't that bad. I can see how some people shy away if they don't have a lot of experience with FCP or Avid. There are a lot of steps that can be hard on the eyes. I prefer Avid myself and though there is an additional hiccup in working with Red footage in Avid, I think that's where I'd go anyhow. That being said.... If we were in fact to go the Red route (which until today I have been poopooing all on heresay and none of my own research, now I think it sounds great actually) are the Red lenses any good? All I know is that they're cheap. I'm not a DP by any means and I can understand a ton of technical jargon, but lenses isn't my thing. Hopefully I'll know more after today after some heavy reading.

What lenses did you use? We're looking at getting an HPX3000 ourselves. Footage there looks great, even down-resd Also is the AVCIntra 100 giving you any post issues. I've heard rumblings about it.

My only concern with the Red was the flow of post production. What I'm finding in my research is that it hasn't been a very easy process to get delievery items out to multiple distribution companies in the formats they need. If they get these post issues resolved I'd love to jump on the Red bandwagon. It seems like more of an experiment right now than a solution. Allen Kellogg

We are currently about to begin a multi-picture packet for the year. We are looking at purchasing a camera to shoot them and be able to rent it out in the lulls. We're looking at spending 70-100K on the camera itself and rent the lens package for this go around. (Yes I know many of you want to buy lenses first but let's consider that not an option for now). I have been going through forum after forum and I keep coming across the HPX3000 as well as the Red of course and the Sony F series. The projects vary from a romantic comedy to horror but the majority of the projects are horror. At least one of these will also get transferred to 35mm after all is said and done. That said... What camera should we be looking at? Is there a camera I am not thinking of? I'm leaning toward shooting with the HPX3000 with an Angenieux adapter. Thoughts? Allen Kellogg