RED Epic Rental Questions Answered

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In my last video you got to see James Drake of 5kinsight.com give me a tutorial on using the RED Epic, right after that he gave me the camera to shoot with. Since I had questions about renting the Epic, I interviewed James with the Epic.

Before I start in the interview. I shot the video at 5k resolution. I downloaded the RED-Cinex program I did some coloring there and then in Premiere I brought in the native R3D files and was surprised they played back really well on my machine. I wanted to draw more attention to James so I added a vignette. I also noticed that some light rays where coming in from the high windows and I wanted to accent them a little so I created some light rays and tracked them with the originals as they crossed the station. So real quick this is what the raw files of the camera looked like and this is what I did to it. Since I don't own any sort of 4k display device I published this video to 1080. To be fair this type of shot is really not where the Epic shines, but I didn't have time to do much more than this. Who rents a RED Epic? Time to test and get comfortable before shooting for the first time? What type of projects are shot on the RED? Lenses to rent? Rent vs. own? Other benefits Additional rental services? Insurance on the camera?

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[icyarthur1]

Is it just me or is the audio out of sync with the video footage?

[drumat5280]

@icyarthur1 you might be right I had to sync up the audio with just one hand clap.

[ImmaturityCrewProd]

you can upload 2k files.  film riot did it with losses.

[drumat5280]

@ImmaturityCrewProd I remember Ryan doing that. Do you mean 1920x1080 as 2k?

[Trethero]

do you use a 5d?

[drumat5280]

@Trethero no I use the T2i, check out my gear page.

[MrDasjoerd]

Super nice and clear footage! Awesome. But the light rays you made aren't that nice..

[drumat5280]

@freedomfighter213 yes! but after I added some effects - no.

[xReeceS02x]

@drumat5280 4k videos will appear under th quality option as original.

[benjaminshinobi]

Hey Dave, what are the specs on your system?

[rockhopper123452]

did u use the t3i at 6:04 and what did u use to edit

[heymrrayray]

Is the Red Epic a full frame sensor (35mm) and/or is the same as full frame motion picture size?

[vbobkovsky]

@TheMRAchu3 Look up the tutorial on epic, especially the aspect ratios part.

[cashimirs]

@drumat5280 man you really got good at this awesome stuff

[jmont2608]

Tech is getting amazing. Just when you start to think what could they do to possibly make things better, they always find a way to make it better.

[Hail33]

Hey, great video! I was just wondering after watching some of your videos, what rendering settings do you use for your t2i when exporting out of Premiere? I've been trying to get the best quality out of my footage but I always manage to get a lot of compression artifacts even in.