Thai "High Society" Toasted in Torino

The Torino Film Lab announced the winners of their production awards today. Aditya Assarat's 2nd feature "High Society" was 1 of 5 projects to get funding.

"For its lyrical treatment of a contemporary and universal theme, the Jury awards 80,000 Euro to HIGH SOCIETY by Aditya ASSARAT."

"High Society" is co-produced by Pop Pictures (Thailand), Memento Films (France) and Flying Moon FilmProduktion (Germany).

Aditya's first feature "Wonderful Town", post-produced at Houdini Studio, has screened in festivals worldwide and won awards in Pusan, Rotterdam and Deauville.

Apple Live in Thailand

Apple has just switched on their Apple online store for all Asia including Thailand. They've included free shipping as one of the perks. No refurbished gear yet though. Hope to see that in the future.

RED Apple: FCP Gets RED readier

From Mike Curtis at HD for Indies has news on the updated workflow for the RED camera and Final Cut Pro. This should be coming with the next update to FCP 6.0.5 and Color 1.0.3

"... new functionality in Log & Transfer. At present, you can import Red material and it will transcode to one of the ProRes codecs. This process is slow. The new option will be to simply rewrap the R3D files as QuickTimes. This is NOT using the reference files, these will be freestanding, self contained QuickTime files, using the native R3D data wrapped in a QuickTime, uh, wrapper. This sounds very similar to how native P2 DVCPRO HD media is rewrapped MXF files in a QT wrapper. This will allow for native 2K workflows."

This is exciting as it will quickly allow FCP and Color to migrate to a 2K workflow without having to rely on the traditional throughput necessary to handle 2K DPX files. And small facilities like ours will be able to grade a film shot on RED through a simple Matrox MXO solution.

Scarlet in More Ways Than One

RED released the specs for the Scarlet and Epic cameras today. This really blows all the hype about using the Nikon D90 and Canon 5d MarkII to shoot HD video out of the water.

RED just went ahead and redefined the game with the DSMC concept (Digital Stills and Motion Camera). Basically you pick a Scarlet or Epic brain depending on the sensor size and frame rate needs you may have. Resolution from 3K to 28K. Sensor size from 4.9 MP to 261 MP. Crazy!








And just to make things a little more fun they live up to their R3D file nomenclature in more ways than one. Here's to RED 3D!

P2 Card Recording Times for HVX-200

Had to search all around to try to find recording times in various formats for both the 50hz and 60 hz Panasonic AG-HVX200 models. Finally found a user who posted their own chart. Thanks to Mikko Wilson for this.

The longest recording times come with the 720pN24 and 720pN25 modes of the camera ("N" being native) that record a true 24 or 25 fps signal to the P2 card. This is accomplished by not doubling frames (25 to achieve a 50hz signal) or introducing pulldown (24 to achieve a 60hz signal).

Editing Notes

Trying to add some editing resources that I can access easily from one place so I'll be posting short notes and links about editing (creative and technical).