thanx for the Alexa's lesson!!

Sounds like a great camera! Nice run through

Thanks for the comments everyone, there is more coming.
You can find additional content on Alexa on my Creative Cow Blog here

Very well done, precise and to the point. Can't wait to actually use this camera. Thank You....

Johnny E. Jensen, ASC

That was perfect!

This is a flawless overview, I feel as if encountering the camera the first time I could successfully operate it with little difficulty. Thank you for taking the time to make this video.

Gary great walk through. Really helpfull. IM shooting 3D on the Alexa in September and I feel if my DOP gets stuck I can help out thx to your tutorial :)
Alex Jovy, Director/Producer
Academy Award Nominated

My thanks to everyone, I tried to make it difficult, unfortunately for me, Arri has made the menus simple enough for a Producer to follow.

Nicely presented Gary..

I need to make 2 corrections to the content, as I spoke erroneously about 2 aspects of the camera.

I remind everyone that it was complete SPECULATION on MY PART that the Alexa "EXT" connection would be able to power an additional camera block and not something that Arri has announced.


That the Alexa Video Outputs will not support individually separate video outputs. That being said that as long as they are outputting an uncompressed signal- that the 3rd Party recorders would be able to handle the differing format conversions. The Monitor Out can be a different format or colorspace, however the REC1 REC2 are married and cannot output independent signals.

Great review Gary. Thanks a billion! I have always enjoyed the simplicity of ARRIs menu system on their newer film cameras (535,435,235,416). Menu systems always seem to be an afterthought, which is strange seeing how much time matters on a set. A big improvement since the days of the F-900!

Thanks a bunch for a good run through
Arri's got young legs with an old soul
We could use that these days.

Hey Gary, any chance of a blog post update on Alexas beta status and the DTE software issue? Just interested in an update...as the wait for alexa is still nothing compared to epic :-) thx

Thanks for the knowledge Gary. If you got a sec, check out this short film i shot with the new camera.
vimeo.com/14079502