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Bluetooth in the RED has a variety of promising applications which could prove helpful during photography as well as during post production. On the shoot, a RED camera with Bluetooth could interface with a PDA or laptop to manage various in camera settings, allowing for both organization and remote control. From the PDA or laptop, those settings could then be distributed to other RED cameras on the set. The RED cameras could also monitor each other and possibly even audio recording equipment via Bluetooth to maintain timecode sync.
What might be a promising and innovative use of the Bluetooth interface between the RED and a PDA or laptop (or any other interface between the RED and a PDA or laptop) would be automatic, digital camera logs. Each RED camera operator would input their lens information at their camera (unless the RED will somehow be able to automatically discern this information) and at the end of every take the RED will collect that lens information along with the current camera settings, label it with the timecode just recorded, and send that log to a PDA or laptop. That information would be neatly entered into a database along with the logs from whichever other RED cameras were rolling that take. Imagine: a take with terrible sound, a perfect rack focus, a great performance, and a continuity error is shot. The RED camera sends its camera log to the Script Supervisor's laptop, from where it is distributed to a database management software on the Director's PDA, the 1st AC's PDA, and Sound Recordist's laptop. The Script Sup makes the note on the continuity, the Director note the great performance, the 1st AC notes the perfect rack focus, the Sound Recordist complains about the sound, and then all those notes are updated into the main database and attatched to that one take for the editor. FURTHERMORE, if RED stays closely tied to Apple, perhaps a plugin for Final Cut Pro could be developed to integrate the RED Digital Camera Logs: with a stable timecode, the RED Digital Camera Logs could be automatically paired up with the actual media, allowing the editing software to automatically apply labels and notes to each take on the timecode and even automatically subclip every take. I'd be a happy editor to have all that available to me...
Go RED!
What might be a promising and innovative use of the Bluetooth interface between the RED and a PDA or laptop (or any other interface between the RED and a PDA or laptop) would be automatic, digital camera logs. Each RED camera operator would input their lens information at their camera (unless the RED will somehow be able to automatically discern this information) and at the end of every take the RED will collect that lens information along with the current camera settings, label it with the timecode just recorded, and send that log to a PDA or laptop. That information would be neatly entered into a database along with the logs from whichever other RED cameras were rolling that take. Imagine: a take with terrible sound, a perfect rack focus, a great performance, and a continuity error is shot. The RED camera sends its camera log to the Script Supervisor's laptop, from where it is distributed to a database management software on the Director's PDA, the 1st AC's PDA, and Sound Recordist's laptop. The Script Sup makes the note on the continuity, the Director note the great performance, the 1st AC notes the perfect rack focus, the Sound Recordist complains about the sound, and then all those notes are updated into the main database and attatched to that one take for the editor. FURTHERMORE, if RED stays closely tied to Apple, perhaps a plugin for Final Cut Pro could be developed to integrate the RED Digital Camera Logs: with a stable timecode, the RED Digital Camera Logs could be automatically paired up with the actual media, allowing the editing software to automatically apply labels and notes to each take on the timecode and even automatically subclip every take. I'd be a happy editor to have all that available to me...
Go RED!
