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128. EPIC-X Redwoods
1 month ago
125. PK - Berelain
4 months ago
Here is the first video I shot with my brand new RED EPIC-X! Shot in 5KFF using Duclos Cine-mod Tokina 11-16mm t2.8 and RED 18-50mm t3.0.

I just got my EPIC-X last week. Since I've been working so much I haven't had much time to post or even shoot with it. Finally I got some free time and I took an awesome day-trip with my dad to Montgomery woods to shoot the world's largest redwood trees! Here's a blog my dad wrote about the experience: thelawlers.com/Blognosticator/

So far I am extremely impressed with the capabilities of this camera. This is the second RED video I have edited in Adobe Premiere. (the first being shot on the RED ONE MX) Considering I use After Effects and Photoshop every day, I am 100% done with FCP. Premier took me about 1 hour to adjust to.

I love being able to edit raw 5K footage (or even 7D footage) without rendering! If you are having trouble deciding on wether or not to switch from FCP to Premiere, JUST DO IT NOW. Trust me. I waited 5 months to switch when I should have waited 5 seconds.

The Epic-X is by far the coolest camera I've ever shot with. The capabilities are endless!

Vimeo is a great place to lean more about everything! So I want to help every vimeo member out! Feel free to email me, or post any questions you have about my epic, the workflow, or whatever you can dream up! I will answer every single question 100%.

Music by my favorite band: Hammock -
"Something Other Than Remaining"

Seriously, Hammock is the first band I've bought everything from on iTunes. I highly suggest the same for you guys! What an inspiring music group!

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  • Mark Williams plus 1 month ago
    Nice work. Very ethereal feeling to it. Ground level shots very cool.
  • Patrick Lawler plus 1 month ago
    Thank you so much!
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  • Alex Yane plus 1 month ago
    Real cool video, what ASA you using?
  • Patrick Lawler plus 1 month ago
    I was shooting at ISO 800 and fully open on each lens, it was super dark in that forest. I have a question for you! Do you recommend metering and previewing in Raw mode or not?
  • Alex Yane plus 1 month ago
    no, Because later colorist need make back to rec 709,
    if is HDR is different story.
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  • Cetre Pegues 1 month ago
    Happy Holidays! I'm one of those technically inept ones...it takes me a bit to figure things out. Having finally gotten comfortable with FCP (and photoshop for my photography) I've been hearing all too much for me to switch to Premiere. In your opinion, will the learning curve be a smooth transition or is it a completely different animal? I really appreciate this!
  • Patrick Lawler plus 1 month ago
    Premier is great! The learning curve is easy but some minor things are annoying. I can't speak to how your workflow will translate, but pretty much everything I need to do was easy to figure out. Download the 30 day trial free and see how you like it!
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  • Rick Macomber plus 1 month ago
    some shots remind me of "The Tree of Life" Patrick : )
  • Patrick Lawler plus 1 month ago
    Wow thank you!
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  • This is awesome. is the 11-16mm yours? beautiful stuff man, love the track. Also, you've convinced me, I am switching to premier immediately.

    -Aaron (the psychonauts' ball)
  • Patrick Lawler plus 1 month ago
    I have an 11-16mm but it isn't the cine-mod PL version. I just have the canon mount one.
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  • Gene Setzer plus 1 month ago
    I love it bro, A true fan!!!
  • Patrick Lawler plus 1 month ago
    Thanks man!
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  • The Barbour Shop plus 1 month ago
    Patrick, You ROCK. This is insanely gorgeous and inspirational. Very cool your Dad was your Key Grip for your first shoot with your RED EPIC-X. Awesome!
  • Patrick Lawler plus 1 month ago
    Thanks Meg!
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  • Thank you so much for speaking out for Premiere, Patrick. All too many people simply accept FCP as the standard, jumping on the bandwagon without question. I have run my production company on Premiere for many years and love the native format support among many other things. Anyway, beautiful work. Premiere users unite!
  • Patrick Lawler plus 1 month ago
    Of course! It's a great product and the transition was pretty easy! :)
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  • Arsenio 1 month ago
    Awesome shots,
    and you need to try VegasPro
  • Patrick Lawler plus 1 month ago
    haha does Vegas even handle red footage?
  • Arsenio 1 month ago
    ha ha
    takes 5K R3Ds native, no additional downloads needed
  • Patrick Lawler plus 1 month ago
    it's hilarious that Vegas and Premier do this, but the new Final Cut Doesn't.... what the fuck were they thinking!
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  • sablessandboy plus 1 month ago
    Wonderful scenes, I wish our woods in UK were as awesome. Images and music blended so well.
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  • Michael Shainblum plus 1 month ago
    gorgeous footage, absolutely amazing!!!!
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  • hellokinetik plus 1 month ago
    good work Patrick! as always
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  • Great Work as always.
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  • Stanislav Pankratov 1 month ago
    Nice!!! I hope i will buy Red some days!
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  • Anthony Cabula plus 1 month ago
    Excellent shots !
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  • Curtis Craven plus 1 month ago
    Needs some nat sound!
  • Patrick Lawler plus 1 month ago
    Oh that's a good idea! This place was amazing it was the quietest place I've ever been!
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  • Ivan George 1 month ago
    Some nice looking footage...
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  • Fabian 1 month ago
    What a great vid.

    just out of curiousity but how much does a camera like that cost?
  • Patrick Lawler plus 1 month ago
    Thank you! It depends on the package and what accessories you want. The list prices for their equipment are on the red website. red.com
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  • Logan Hursh plus 1 month ago
    great shots!
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  • Joan pro 1 month ago
    Great shots here !!! and I agree with you, Premiere is a greater software ...
    Thanks for share Patrick !
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  • Nice shots Patrick. That camera is insane. Big screen quality. Now that you switched to Premier, what do you use for Coloring?
  • Patrick Lawler plus 1 month ago
    I am currently switching to Davinci Resolve. It looks amazing! But I'm having trouble powering my second CUDA card. You can download a free trial but you need a Quadro 4000 GPU accelerator card to make the application work. But once it works you can grade 5K and even motion track masks and vignettes in real time!
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  • RockHouse Motion plus 1 month ago
    Beautiful Work! We are playing the waiting game for our EPIC X now! Bits and pieces come everyday but I'm afraid the brain will still be a couple months out. What kind of playback are you getting within premiere while editing? I have an 8 core MacPro, 16 gb Ram, and a quadro 4000 video card. Could I expect to playback 5K files in realtime in premiere?
  • Patrick Lawler plus 1 month ago
    I have exactly the same compute setup but with only 8gb of ram for now, and I'm trying to figure out how to install my second quadro 4000. Premier is cool because you can choose the playback quality from full to half to 1/8 or 1/16. I edited this video at 1/16th quality but I was on my MacBook pro. My computer can handle 1/8th playback easily and it looks fine!
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  • RockHouse Motion plus 1 month ago
    Nice! I don't need to see the images at full rez while cutting I just didn't want the program to be really sluggish trying to handle the R3D's. Most of my work is commercials and short form so I'm thinking keeping the files native is the best way to go. I plan to do first lights in RedCine X and the final grade in Davinci Resolve Lite. I have read that there is a glitch with the XML premiere puts out but I will work through that when I get there. Thank you for the feedback and your awesome work. I have followed your stuff for awhile now!
  • Patrick Lawler plus 1 month ago
    Realtime playback should always be possible on a mac pro. Just the faster you make it determines the level of quality you get to watch it back at.
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  • ISIAH DONTE' LEE plus 1 month ago
    Last shot is too sick buddy!
  • Patrick Lawler plus 1 month ago
    Thanks!
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  • Tomasz Wyszolmirski 1 month ago
    Love it ! This inspires me a lot. Thank You sir!
  • Patrick Lawler plus 1 month ago
    Glad to hear it inspires you! That's great!
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  • Lunova Labs 1 month ago
    really enjoyed this!
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  • Leonardo Mercado 1 month ago
    capo!
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  • Cory Pampalone plus 1 month ago
    Great job my friend. Color and detail are top notch. Exposure is perfect.
  • Patrick Lawler plus 1 month ago
    Thanks for the technical feedback! I always appreciate that!
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  • Pete Daley 1 month ago
    i wanna be like you when i grow up :)
  • Patrick Lawler plus 1 month ago
    That's great to hear! Thank you!
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  • Mikey Gaumann 1 month ago
    This looks awesome dude. Jonah told me to check this out today. That camera is amazing! Can't wait to see your future videos
  • Patrick Lawler plus 1 month ago
    Thanks dude! Jonah Clinard? He's my best friend in the whole world!
  • Mikey Gaumann 1 month ago
    haha yep! I used to work with him at Del's. We actually met once at a party at my house in slo but it was quite a while back.
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  • 22-23 sec lens? 40-51 sec lens ? 2:30-35?
  • Patrick Lawler plus 1 month ago
    22-23 is the Tokina 11-16mm Duclos cine-mod.
    40-51 is the Red 17-50mm.
    2:30-35 is probably the Tokina, but it could also be the 17-50mm in full wide.
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  • Cameron Alexander 1 month ago
    HI, I saw your excelent videos in my country! You make me excited to be filmmaker!! I currently go to school and am rreally trying to do good like you. do you have tip for person like me?

    PS about myself! I am from Chile! and love movies! Francis Copola and Denero are my best. Have you seen Taxi Drive?
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  • htat htut plus 1 month ago
    amazing!
    I hate that i can't tell the difference btwn DSLR footage and any other 2K - 5K footage on web.
    I was wondering when you transfered the footage, did you go through REDCINE first or directly to Premiere? and was there a special card reader required for RED SSD cards? thanks!
  • Patrick Lawler plus 1 month ago
    The difference I can see between DSLR and Red or other footage is the color. The raw capabilities produce a much nicer looking image in my opinion. Also less wobble shutter!
    Also 2K footage is very close to 1080p size.

    I gave everything a basic color grade in redcine-x at first but then I realized I would be spending much more time coloring shots that maybe wouldn't even be used, so I edited the whole thing in premiere and you can open the raw red metadata and color it very similarly with luma curves etc. So I just did it in premiere.

    Thanks for watching :)
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  • Daniel Peters plus 1 month ago
    great footage man

    I'm trying to save for the ScarletX as i don't think i can push for the Epic

    have only shot on HVX-35adpater and of course 5DMKII-1DMKIV

    been dying to get RED since the beginning
    love the RAW, slow mo in RED and was thinking of getting a second hand Red One for the fact of the 120fps in 2K

    but dig the form factor of the scarlet and easy PL-EF mounts,...just missing good slow-motion

    basically for the price range its either the scarletx, C300 or F3...besides the low light in the C300...i think the Scarlet stands out to me... unless you wanna pay $14,000 for a good low light camera

    think id rather get the scarlet and bust out my 1DMKIV if i get into low light trouble

    sorry for babbling haha...just know you rock the Red and would love to know your thoughts

    just watched 'A lonely Place To Die' shot on Red One and oh my...beautiful, think the scarlet could easily do that
    (with talent behind the camera of course)

    always been digging around to try and find good raw clips so i can practice importing and grading before i go Red
  • Patrick Lawler plus 1 month ago
    Scarlet is what I'd go with, or the C300 for the ridiculously high ISOs it can shoot with. The scarlet can do some great things, but I really needed the high framerates. I love the RED ONE but it's just way too big and impractical. Especially since they're already becoming hard to rent. Your used RED ONE will already have an executed serial number so upgrading won't be possible.
  • Daniel Peters plus 1 month ago
    thanks for your input man

    how'd you get your Epic-X so fast?.. cuz arnt they still coming soon and only shipping the Epic-M
  • Patrick Lawler plus 1 month ago
    They are shipping both M and X cameras. Epic X stage 3 is shipping by the end of this month, mine was a stage 2 upgrade from a red one.
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  • Joel VanZ plus 1 month ago
    this is... EPIC
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  • Daniel Peters plus 1 month ago
    would love if you had the time to upload the raw file for us to download?

    get familiar with importing, grading with diff red footage etc

    just a 10 sec or so clip :)
  • Patrick Lawler plus 1 month ago
    I can later once I'm home from my trip. For now RED has tons of footage up on reduser that you can download right now.
  • Daniel Peters plus 1 month ago
    thanks man...yeah already been taking daily trips on reduser haha

    hope you have a great new years :)
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  • Lukas 1 month ago
    Nicely done.
    Must be a great camera! I can only second your suggestion to switch to Premiere.
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  • Sebastian Riepp plus 1 month ago
    Congratulations on your own Epic! Really nice camera. But does it have a solid movie-camera feeling like the Arri Alexa? It always looks so small and easy to me... I switch now to Premiere, too :)
    happy new year and greets from munich
  • Patrick Lawler plus 1 month ago
    I really like how small the epic is because it's portable and easy to shoot handheld with. This weekend I flew up to San Francisco with everything I needed to make the camera shoot for 3 days in just a camera bag. Flying with an Alexa would be a lot more difficult.

    Also when you build the epic up to its full studio configuration with real lenses, a mattebox and follow focus, the V-lock batteries and everything, it's a pretty big and heavy camera.
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  • Noah Lagin 1 month ago
    Beautiful work, I was hooked the whole way through. The epic is great and all, but shooting a redwood forest isn't easy, so my praise to you and not the machine. Also, if you don't mind sharing what slider you used, that'd be quite helpful.
  • Patrick Lawler plus 1 month ago
    Thank you so much Noah! I used a Midas Mount slider, made in LA near my house.
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  • Chris McKechnie plus 1 month ago
    Nicely done Patrick. :-) Awaiting my Epic M. :-)
  • Patrick Lawler plus 1 month ago
    Awesome!
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  • Poker Jedi 1 month ago
    Beautiful stuff......great choice of music!
  • Patrick Lawler plus 1 month ago
    Thanks!
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  • AS WORLDS DIVIDE plus 1 month ago
    Stunning, and thanks for all the info... keep up the good work!
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  • The footage Looks Really Good Patrick. My Scarlet should be delivered by the end of next week...I use FCP currently, and was wondering your workflow with Premiere Pro. You said you went into Redcine-X, but then just went back to Premiere (does this mean for your standard workflow you would copy clips from the Redmag onto your hard drive, and just start editing in Premiere without transcoding or going into Redcine-X, and then go into Resolve to color grade?) Thanks for the time!
  • Patrick Lawler plus 1 month ago
    What I like to do is import everything off the SSD card into redcineX-Pro then do a quick one-light on all the clips, adjust ISO, color temp, curves, and exposure etc. Then when I bring them into premiere they bring those looks I applied with them. Then I edit, and will send to davinci resolve.
  • Patrick Lawler plus 1 month ago
    No transcoding necessary ever.
  • O ok...so do you just quit out of Redcine-X after the simple corrections and the adjustments are on the original .R3D files, then when you import to Premiere the corrections are updated? That is crazy how much drive space that will save to not have to make ProRes versions of everything. Thanks again for your time!
  • Patrick Lawler plus 1 month ago
    Yes exactly! Isn't that great! You just need do install some new drivers free from the adobe website to make premiere and after effects able to handle 5k footage (if you're shooting epic) Red One stuff should be no problem at all!
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  • Justin Ecklof 1 month ago
    Intense! Awesome work!
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  • Sidmar Holloman 1 month ago
    can you upload some of the raw files from the Red camera please?
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  • Joe Warren 1 week ago
    Nice video footage.

    Now let me ask you, FCP or PR? Which program and why?

    My sister is thinking about going to film school and wants to learn FCP but I told her to learn PR instead. Since you are obviously experienced and know what you are doing which program would you prefer to learn the best?
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