American Cinematographer - October 2008 - (Page 26) Director Joseph Hodges goes over the scene with Maggie Q. “This was one of the exterior sets we shot at night and played for sunset,” notes Seckendorf. about 2⁄3 of a stop of exposure. The production shot the equivalent of 90,000' of film, recording to drives rather than cards. The One records in a proprietary format called Redcode Raw (.r3d), and these data files stay intact, even when the cinematographer applies look-up tables to the footage. “It’s raw data,” says Seckendorf. “With the Genesis and cameras that go out to tape, the digital-imaging technician [DIT] is controlling the image. With the One, it’s more like a negative. The image is not being managed or set during the shoot, so for the DIT, it’s more a matter of data management. But it’s important to look at the raw files in Red software and make sure you can see detail. If you can’t, it’s not there.” He found the One’s imagery very close to the quality of Kodak Vision2 16mm film stock. “It’s like 35mm with a little less latitude at the top and bottom [of the exposure curve].” But, he notes, it is neither film nor HD. “It works as its own thing, its own medium. I’ve shot a million miles of film, and this is by far the best non-film camera I’ve ever touched.” During production, all the camera data was immediately backed up onto two FireWire drives and shuttled to Plaster City Post, which handled the editorial and online work. At Plaster City, the original .r3d files were backed up onto LTO tapes and then transferred to the facility’s network. The .r3d files were then transcoded into Apple ProRes 2K using Final Cut Pro’s Log and Transfer. After the editors spent three or four weeks doing offline editing using the ProRes files, the online began — and so did the problems. “It was a very difficult job,” says Michael Cioni, founder and director of operations at Plaster City. To meet EA’s needs, the project had been shot at 29.97 fps, and the offline editors worked using Final 26 http://www.efdusa.net http://www.efd.com.mx http://www.efdusa.net
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