Nigel Stanford

Well spotted :)

I didn't say I think digital imagery is best. I think film looks nicer, or else why build a product to make digital look like film? Really? I produced a movie in 2007 shooting on a viper to uncompressed DPX, and backing each 30 minute magazine, about 350gb of data to an LTO3 tape twice. At the time, the tapes were about $80. So each 30 minutes cost $160 of materials. Shooting R3D is much much less data than uncompressed DPX. I assume you know how much a 1000 foot roll and development costs. How can this even be an argument?

I was asking for it with that title, I realize that now! Lesson learned :)

Thanks for the feedback. I have a video here so you can see it in motion 1080p. It's true that we can't add back shadow or highlight detail, and the non mx doesn't really have that many stops, but the MX and alexa are so close as to make dynamic range a moot point i think. I have now shot color charts from black to blown out for 23 different stocks and 8 digital cameras. One day soon I'll write a blog post about it. And yeas, you can do all this in grading if you're talented enough. Like most things, this is just designed to save you time.

hmmm. Don't read into my smiley icon. I just can't resist their cuteness. ;) I guess with that title I was hoping to get people who have an opinion about film and digital to look at the thread, check out the software and give me their opinion. I had forgotten that it is a religious war with 2 camps: RED is awesome, it's better than film in every way and anyone who thinks otherwise is a total moron LOL!!1! film is perfect and there is no scientific way we could ever possibly recreate it's MAGIC by any means other than plastic and chemicals!!!1! I personally belong to a 3rd camp. I prefer the look of film but it's too expensive, and I like the advantages of shooting digital. Is there anyone else out there? Or am I the only atheist in Kansas?

I hope it's kosher to post this here... let me know if not. Anyways... I've been working on something to make the Red look like film: FilmConvert Would love to get the thoughts of the film and red camps. :rolleyes:

Hi guys, we've developed a piece of software to help out anyone who is working with Red footage in post - Monkey Extract. It is a way to automate rendering using an EDL. It will scan the EDL and render only the footage contained in the cut with optional handles. You can render to DPX, TIFF or Quicktime. Because it uses EDL it can be used to move a cut from Avid / Final Cut / Premiere into any grading system. We've used it on a feature edited in Avid Media Composer, to prepare DPX frames in order to grade in Apple Color. I hope you find it useful, any comments questions or other feedback would be appreciated. :)