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Navite R3D support finaly available for CS4 only…

December 10, 2008 in Technology with 1 Comment

Well it finally happened, RED just released it’s “Beta” Adobe CS4 Installer – which brings native raw support for R3D files inside of Premiere CS4.0.1 and After Effects 9.0.1 (make sure that you’ve done your updates).  This supports footage from RED One’s up through Build 18, but not without a very serious workstation!  

Min spec has been reported to be:

  • 3.0 Ghz Quad Core System with 8 GB RAM
  • Hard drive with at least 40MB/sec (Striped RAID recommended) – yeah no joke!
  • Vista 64 sp1
And it’s said that “high end” notebooks should have real time playback using the 512 sequence settings…
Everything that you need for the plug-in can be found at http://www.red.com/support
This means that we are one step closer to actually being able to do this!  Is this a game changing moment in time – NO!  It only means that we are a bit closer to the idea of having more accessible tools to develop media on.  Also, unless you’ve been under a rock – you must have seen the Dec 3rd announcement that RED released showing a possible $3,700 scarlet rig (coming in much lower than the $7k price mark that I once thought it would take to build a full kit.
Until all of this actually happens – I’d be happy with a MinoHD and Vegas (w/ Magic Bullet Looks)..  

CS4 Live – still no RED Support

October 23, 2008 in Technology with 2 Comments

July 31st marked the day when Red came forward to announce that CS3 would have native R3D 4k support – two full months have come and gone, a new version of the Creative Suite began to ship and we have still yet to see this in action!  What does this mean?  We have to wait – will it ever happen? Eventually…  (more…)

User Groups – Why do YOU attend?

September 30, 2008 in Production with Comments Off

Within every profession there are many (sometime too many) communities that you can join, groups you can take part in, associations that you can become a member of. But what’s the point – REALLY?!  I’ve embarked upon a journey to build community around one of my very favorite application (Adobe After Effects) as a response to the overwhelming discovery that there was no community, association, or UG (as Adobe refers to User Groups).

My journey began when I saw a post on twitter by Trent Armstrong (the founder of the Dallas AEUG) that he was headed out to talk at the DFW AEUG.  To be quite honest I was rather jealous that I couldn’t be there (being 280 miles away in North West Houston.)  My response to this was proactive googling and scouring all over the web to find something like that here in my neck of the woods.  Toiling over old post of people looking for the same sort of group here in town I made two discoveries:

  1. There is no Group of After Effects Users meeting in Houston
  2. There is really NO Central Hub for AEUG’s to standardize and share information.
In getting back to my original headline – “Why do YOU Attend?” What do you look for in an AEUG or just looking for in any kind of User Group?  If there was a group that you could attend what would cause you to sacrifice your time to come out?!  
  • Do you attend cause there’s a door prize or give-away that night?
  • Do you attend to network with others in your field?
  • Are you there to learn something?
  • Do you show up to help others learn?
Please leave a comment here on the blog or direct message me on Twitter.com/big_b_rad
You have the opportunity to shape the formation of a brand new community (even if you’re not in the Houston Area and are reading this post – please join in, together we can make this an AWESOME ADVENTURE!
Also, if you would please let us know if you already attend a group include where and when you attend!  This can become a list of existing AEUG’s around the World too…
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