RED Scarlet

I was thinking about getting the Red scarlet camera next year.....BUT here recently I talked to a camera man (who works in the B-movie industry) and I asked him what he thought about the red cameras. He said they look like true film, but the file sizes are so big that you need several very fast computer to deal with the file sizes.
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Now this guy hasn't actually used a red camera,,,, and he is very technical, so, is that true?...Does it take a really long time to process red footage?? Do you really need several computers just to use it.

Now Ive got 6 computers, 5 of them are slow broken ones that ive repaired and they were basically free, and I have one really good one (the mothership) with 2 intel extreme processors and a boatload of memory. ("boatload" is high tech computer jargon BTW)

I would imagine working with higher resolution videos would take a lot more processor and RAM requirements... Not sure how much. My computer seems to function well with 1920x1080, but wont the RED be basically 2x the resolution? It should be interesting to see. I was interested in this, but now I am looking into the XH A1 Canon

If you had a red camera you would still down res it to 1080, most people will assume that a 1080 camera would be just as good, but its not really.... because when you down res red one footage the edges are really sharp and well defined etc. I guess its the same principle as to why the SLR cameras are better than the ps cameras, bigger sensor... Does anyone on here have a red camera? and would like to talk more about it?

This is nothing about how the camera works but I thought it was interesting that Red is suing LG over the trademark.
Even though one is a camera and the other is a television I guess there simular products?
http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/18/red-brings-the-trademark-pain-against-lgs-scarlet-hdtv/

Jake

That is interesting, personally if I were the judge I would think that cameras and TVs are different enough products not to matter. They aren't really competing with each other, but sometimes companies do things just to create free publicity in the news,,, pizzahut once bought logo space on a russian rocket, no one saw it of course, but the news reported it, and pizza hut gets more "advertising". lol.

How funny about Pizza Hut. I guess a little advertising goes a long way. lol

Scott the Red scarlet is a digital cinematography cameras at $17000.00 for just the body and the Canon XH-A1 only cost $3300.00. Some of us don't have deep pockets.

one word for working with really high res files: cineform - works wonders.

By the way, first post here. Hi everyone! I'm really liking this site - hope it becomes No. 1 choice for buyers.

Jason,
My pockets are very shallow :-). I didn't think the Scarlet was going to be 17k!!! I had been reading that somewhere it would be around 3k. What the H :-).

The canon it will be. haha

The red is going to be below $3000
http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/04/14/red-unveils-scarlet-mini-camcorder/