[Tig] Grading RED footage

[Oskar Lissheim-Boethius]

On 18 maj 2008, at 21.58, Rob Lingelbach wrote:

> On May 18, 2008, at 9:22 PM, Oskar Lissheim-Boethius wrote:
>>
>> Interesting competition/way to get your hand on some decently shot  
>> RED
>> footage for grading and for checking out the workflow. $25 for 160GB
>> of material isn't bad.
>>
>> http://www.opencut.org/
>
>
> I I had a spare 160GB and if they accepted entries from countries  
> outside the US (their entry fields seem to preclude telephone  
> country codes) I'd enter.   ( oh and also if they threw in a copy of  
> FCP )  ( and also get me an AFTRA card )
>
> some might say that they're shopping for a low-cost editor ... in  
> fact the editor is so low-cost, he/she has to pay an entry fee to  
> submit a cut!
>
> And..  I'm not sure that because there's an entry fee, that you  
> could call this "open source,"  nor that this term can be used for  
> something other than software.  (i'll be happy to be informed i'm  
> wrong on these points)
>

Valid points. Didn't have time to read that far before I got lost in  
real work. Not open source definitely, but still $25 is cheaper than  
going out and getting a RED camera to shoot for yourself.

Sad they won't let you have the footage if you're outside the US,  
though. Europe is the place, I say!



Yours sincerely,

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