First review of RED: The Ultimate Guide to Using the Camera is out!
Noah’s RED book has received its first review and it’s a nice one from Steve Sherrick, a longtime REDuser and fellow blogger. Here’s an excerpt:
If you have never heard of the RED One, also known as R1, well you will definitely want to pick up Noah’s book and read it from cover to cover at least 2 or 3 times. It will get you up to speed in a hurry. If you have heard of it but never actually used the camera, the book will answer many of the questions you may have and provide you with enough information to feel comfortable to take the camera out and shoot with it. If you are an experienced Red user, well, there’s still a lot you can pick up on in this book as not only does it cover the basics of operating, but gets into the details of data management, postproduction, and how to integrate audio.
For the rest of the review, follow this link:
http://www.redfilmmaker.com/2009/08/red-ultimate-guide-to-using.html
September 17th, 2009 at 9:57 pm
HI. I am very interested in purchasing the book. From the preview sections it looks very informative and well written. I will mention two things that concern me most about purchasing a Red Scarlett Camera and the book (besides what the final Price of the Scarlett will be, how easy will it be to operate, when will it be released, and how good its sensor/ final results will be):
1). If I get a Scarlett or am considering it around when it comes out, will the book have updates on the registered users website about the Scarlett, or will I be stuck knowing some great background info. but having to relearn (and perhaps re-buy) information about this new new technology?
2). Something that would be immensely useful to me would be (and this would add even more value to the book) if you could offer to people who buy the book and go to the registered users site, even just a few minutes of (ideally copyright free?) unaltered footage of the current Red One for download. That way we could see how it runs on our current computer, see the options for ourselves, and start to determine how feasible it is for someone like me who is pretty sure the Red One is out of my price range- but am very interested in the interchangeable lens, raw Scarlet system. Even though it would be at 4k, I could really get a sense of what Post would be like. I would buy the book today if I knew these two questions were addressed. Could you or someone from the publisher please contact me if this were the case?
Thank you for making it possible to get our heads around what it would be like to be on the “bleeding edge,”
-Daniel
September 21st, 2009 at 8:08 am
Hi Daniel-
Thanks for your interest.
1- This book was researched and written over a period of about six months and to date RED has not released the final specifications for the Scarlet camera (nor the EPIC for that matter). So it’s impossible to say how relevant the book will be until the day I get my hands on a Scarlet. That said, there’s a lot of evidence that RED will fold much of the RED ONE’s technology and workflow into the Scarlet. And the book contains a lot of general filmmaking advice that would useful to just about any digital motion picture camera of today. So while not every page may apply to Scarlet, I’m confident that enough of the book will be to make the purchase more than worthwhile. In the meantime it will help introduce you to how RED works in general.
2- We felt it was not necessary to include RED R3D files on a disc with the book because this is already readily available in several places on the internet. One such location is the following link
http://www.scarletuser.com/showpost.php?p=11361&postcount=5
Hope that helps.
-Noah