Re: RED/Kona/FCP for output to HDCAM

Efficient? In what way? If you have to rent a deck and digitize footage that is very inefficient.
I just wrapped shooting my first spots with RED. At the end of the shoot I had 200 gigs of
RAW files ready to edit. No digitizing needed. If you shot with an HDCAM your choice is 23.98 or 29.97,
correct? You have that choice using RED as well. Well you actually can shoot higher fps in 2K if you want.
But the beauty to RED is having the ability to output 4K frames in a log format that give you far more
control than an 8 bit 1080 file you get after HDCAM digitizing. In these spots we just finished for fuddruckers it was talking heads for the most part. We did a few days of food shoots and that is where
the RAW 4K format shined. Having the ability to pan, zoom and rotate and CC all at once was lovely.
We did all the off-lining in FCP and then I used After Effects for CC and encoding to QT 10 bit uncompressed. We bought the whole project into an AVID Nitrus DS system for final CC and layback to HDCAM. The spots are being distributed by DG fast Channel and if you have a Fuddruckers near you, you might see the spots in a few weeks.