Skateboarding, Gunfire, and Models: RED Releases Dudetastic Super Slow-Mo SCARLET Footage | No Film School

I didn't post this when it first came out, because as is often the case, RED releases new footage as Quicktime files posted to REDUSER rather than actually establishing a social media-friendly, embeddable video channel. However, as is to be expected in the world of online video, someone else took the initiative and uploaded the ProRes clip, and so here is the footage they shot on a RED SCARLET prototype (with the fixed 8X lens), featuring skateboarding, gunfire, hookers and johns, a car chase, and a matte black SUV. Brotally:

Hey RED, I get that you want people to download higher-quality clips for evaluation purposes instead of watching highly compressed Flash video. That would make perfect sense, except many of your Quicktime downloads -- including your latest MX sensor demo reel -- are shoddily encoded. Plenty of video services offer HD encoding that looks pretty damn good, so you might want to think about upping your video sharing game so sites much larger than mine (including, say, Gizmodo) can embed it. Just my $0.02.

If you're hankering for more RED footage, also check out this newly-released, VFX-heavy RED ONE MX clip at 48fps with the RED 18-50mm lens. I'd embed it here for you, but, you know, I can't.

Link: Scarlet 8x internal 120FPS test - REDUSER

What's the Hype With 'Interstellar' Revisiting Cinemas After a Decade in 70mm IMAX?

Here's Why You Need to Revisit 'Interstellar' in 70mm IMAX

Celebrate the love and hope at the center of Nolan's space epic in the format it was meant to be seen.

If we know anything about Christopher Nolan, he likes to go big. Nolan started with smaller-scale stories (as many of us do) with early noir adjacent works like Following, Memento, and Insomnia, then started going and staying big with his illusionist drama The Prestige. Since then, the scale has been various degrees of massive, with the biggest scope in his time-and-space sprawling epic, Interstellar.

While Interstellarmight not be everyone's favorite Nolan outing, there's no denying it's an impressive feat of filmmaking and his most emotional—if watching Matthew McConaughey's Cooper desperately try to reach his family through quantum space-time doesn't make you cry at least a little bit, what's going on, dude?

With Interstellar'sIMAX release, it's a great time to shed some tears in a public setting in one of the most prestigious film formats around. As we mentioned in our film gauge piece, Nolan loves shooting on film and utilizes 65mm intentionally to provoke a tone of massive scale. In that regard, Interstellar was made for 70mm IMAX. That goes without saying, dawg. That being said, other factors make Interstellar a perfect movie to revisit in theaters while you can.

Let's break down the release further below.

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