Red Digital Cinema Production
in the Rocky Mountain West
Rocky Mountain 4K offers the new Red One Digital Cinema camera for Colorado, New Mexico, across the Rocky Mountains and beyond. RM4K™ can provide you with both this innovative camera and with the highly experienced crew that can make it work for your production.
There's a lot of information out there about the Red. Some of it is true. RM4K would like to help you understand the Red and how it can work within your specific project and within your budget. We'll try to answer some of the most basic questions here, but we urge you to contact us to discuss your needs.
Either or Both
If you already have a D.P. aboard your production we can package the camera with an image technician alone; otherwise we can support you with an experienced D.P. and image tech/gaffer team.
Higher Than High Definition HD Video
While High Definition video (HD video) is quickly replacing Standard Def, 4K cameras offer four times the amount of information (resolution) of even the highest HD standard (see the illustration on the Why Red page for a comparison). This gives producers a huge amount of flexibility in finishing their projects: DVD, HD, even film finish — including the option of reusing the original footage to output to other formats.
The Digital Cinema Standard
Digital projection is here and it's going to take over the theater. No more splices, scratches or those funny little round holes at the end of the reel. Most existing digital theaters use the 2K format, but the newer ones will be 4K. The Red One originates in 4K (with the option to shoot in 2K) and so is ready right now for the theaters of tomorrow. The really cool thing is that even if you choose "direct to DVD" right now, you can always go back to the original files and do a full scale "film out" when your movie hits it big.
Independent Feature Film Experience
Rocky Mountain 4K provides a full camera package and can come with either one or two experienced film professionals: D.P./Cinematographer Rich Lerner and Gaffer/Technician Nelson Goforth. We've structured RM4K so that we can provide a integrated and cohesive team to lead the camera and lighting side of your film crew, or simply provide technical support for your own D.P.
Rich and Nelson each have over twenty years experience in film and video production in Colorado and around the world — more than a little of it working on very "indy" independent features. It's experience that can speed and enhance your production.
Ready to Travel: Colorado, New Mexico, Wyoming, Kansas, Nebraska, Utah and Worldwide
While RM4K is based in Denver, Colorado we're ready to travel the world - and have! Rich in particular has shot in locations both exotic and bleak worldwide. But we're especially convenient to Colorado, New Mexico, Wyoming, Kansas, Nebraska and Utah - all over the Rocky Mountain region and the Great Plains, in fact.
Soderburgh Shoots Red
"This is the camera I've been waiting for my whole career... Red is going to change everything." — Steven Soderburgh
While acclaimed director Steven Soderburgh is best known for Ocean's Eleven and it's sequels, Soderburgh has a penchant for smaller films and new technology. He's an unabashed fan of the Red camera, shooting The Argentine and Guerilla (both 2008) on early Red One cameras. His latest film, The Informant, with Matt Damon, was also shot on the Red.
What is 4K… or 2K for that matter?
Video and Projection formats — to almost no one's surprise — count thing differently, and in this case at right angles to each other.
TV or video standards count the vertical lines of a picture:720P has 720 lines of vertical resolution, and 1080... you guessed it. The 2K and 4K projection formats count the horizontal lines. Just over 2000 across for 2K and 4096 (it's a digital thing) for 4K.
For purposes of comparision — since they're making this difficult — a 1080 picture in 16:9 aspect ratio (the HD standard) is 1920x1080 pixels. A 2K at the same ratio is 2048x1152 and a 4K: 4096x2304.