First Digital Film School Using RED HD Video Camera
October 24th, 2008 Posted in Digital Film School
Known for shooting some of the latest blockbuster films such as Jumper, Angels & Demons, Guerilla and Crossing the Line, the RED HD camera is a digital film makers dream. Just ask students at the Digital Film School at the New York Film Academy.
The New York Film Academy School of Film and Acting is proud to be the first and only film school to own and make available to students the RED HD camera during a new two year Digital Filmmaking conservatory program at their New York City and Los Angeles locations.
NYFA owns six RED HD cameras that students can sign out for their film projects throughout their second year of study in the Filmmaking and Digital Filmmaking programs. The camera has been well received by NYFA faculty and students. “Being able to shoot with the RED camera now will give me experience that a small amount of students will have because no other school gives their students the access to this camera like NYFA does.” says one student.
“Typical high-end HD camcorders have 2.1M pixel sensors and record with 3:1:1 color sub-sampled video at up to 30fps. RED offers the Mysterium ™ Super 35mm cine sized (24.4×13.7mm) sensor, which provides 4K (up to 30 fps), 3K (up to 60 fps) and 2K (up to 120 fps) capture, and all this with wide dynamic range and color space in 12 bit native RAW. At 4K, that’s more than 5 times the amount of information available every second and a vastly superior recording quality. In addition, you get the same breathtaking Depth of Field and selective focus as found in film cameras using equivalent 35mm P/L mount lenses. Mysterium ™ boasts greater than 66db Dynamic Range thanks to its large 29 sq. micron pixels. And 12,065,000 pixels deliver resolution that can only be called Ultra High Definition.”
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8 Responses to “First Digital Film School Using RED HD Video Camera”
By Super Admin on Dec 17, 2008
The RED HD camera is used by students in the one year digital film making program. They are really enjoying using it.
By Stephen Thompson on Dec 19, 2008
First of all, the Red One camera is not an HD camera. Secondly, Florida State University film school has been using the Red since last February.
By Super Admin on Dec 19, 2008
Hey Stephen,
Thanks for the comment. The Red One is referred to as a “A.D.” Camera or Altered Definition because it is beyond H.D - shooting better then H.D. quality. But, most people refer the RED One as camera that goes beyond High Definition.
We were unaware there was another school making the RED camera available for student use. We currently have six cameras and they are very accessible to our students for their use during our advanced filmmaking programs within our film school.
By Gustavo on Feb 25, 2009
Hi
Are you teaching Red work flow with Final Cut and Avid?
thanks
G
By Tom on Sep 23, 2009
FSU School of Motion Picture Arts has 8 full Red camera packages (they’ve been shooting on them almost non-stop since January 2008 - or about 11 months before this article was written). They make them available to students for their own side projects such as music videos and the like. They also have specific classes on the camera taught by an ASC cinematographer (Rexford Metz). They also are required to use them to make their second film project and are encouraged to use them in every other project including thesis because of how much money it can save them. Their entire post flow has basically been retooled to use the red to its utmost potential. Sou Yun Sim’s thesis ‘My Four Inch Precious’ was the first movie shot on red there. It went on to win the ASC award for best student cinematography of the year.
By Kevin on Oct 28, 2009
This is extremely cool! I just got the new red DVD and that gave me a good overview, but a school using the RED is even better!
(And cause I always get asked: I found the DVD at http://www.red101dvd.com)
Kevvy!