fxguide’s Mike Seymour was invited to be interviewed by RED on their stand at NAB this year. While this may or may not get published by RED themselves, Ted agreed that it would be great to have us offer the interview immediately to fxinsider members. Clearly, it is unusual for us to be interviewed ourselves, but we want to bring you this chat as it covers much of the tech that RED is currently working on, and more widely it explores the issues of 48fps, laser projectors and more.
Nice shirt for being filmed Mike 😉
I see me.
This is a really great discussion.
I’m a 24 year old projectionist at a multiplex with 12 Barcos for a year now as a day time job while building my showreel.
And ever since I’ve been working here I’ve been trying to get the luminance up.
Especially in the biggest room we have with a 3D show it’s just too low.
We have a 22 m wide screen for 430 seats with a Barco 32B projector with a 6.5 kW lamp in it. During 3D I barely hit 6 foot lambert. But every time I reconfigure the projectors and do some testing I get yelled at from the managers that I burn the lamps too fast. They just don’t care for the quality we give our viewers. When they go to see a film I get remarks that it’s too dark. Such a shame that they don’t understand what it takes. That’s why I’m really interested in this kind of tech, while I won’t be in the projection end of the business hopefully by next year, it’s good to know where your material goes and how it ends up on the screen.
Anyway, this interview shows again that an fxinsider subscription is worth every cent.
Thanks guys.
Rio