Let it be known that your resident thieves and clever crack heads are often aware of any film production that is taking up any portion of your town or city and they are watching, waiting to strike. Its not hard to spot a film production, nor is it hard to spot the rental truck loaded with pelican cases carrying precious cargo often guarded by the least paid intern on the set. Do yourself a favor and obtain an policy on your gear today, specially if you have over 5,000 dollars in hardware. Many independents often overlook the importance of obtaining a policy on owned equipment and although I am fully aware you need to save pennies…this is not a corner I would recommend cutting.

I know this cause I was one of those high risk filmmakers and I learned the hard way. Obtaining a policy that is best for you is not that difficult and can be done online in less then half an hour. My associates and I who are investing in RED agreed that we would not take delivery of the RED ONE until it was completely insured.

I was not exactly sure where to look so I turned to the RedUser.net community for recommendations and sure enough generated some solid feedback that ultimately landed me an insurer, thank you RedUsers! Click here to view my “NEED INSURANCE POLICY FOR RED ONE” thread.

With all the recent news and announcements from RED there is yet another uncontrollable fire of hype, skepticism and critiques spreading across the globe. REDuser.net has been an incredible source of information from actual RED users and has been the only way to discuss issues with the RED team and RED leader Jim Jannard himself until recently. Now the forums seemed to be clouded and clogged up by trolls and skeptics and its unfortunate for honest new comers and everyone to have to dig through so much muck in order to find the nuggets, and believe me they are in there.

Jim Jannard recently departed the forum after things started to spin out of control and unfortunately it’s not the 1st time REDUSER.net has lost great contributors, but a 1st for CEO Jannard…enjoy the break Jim.

There is talk about making an exclusive REDUSER forum just for camera owners only or perhaps a REDUSER Pro that you pay a minimal fee for access, although a controversial subject its starting to make sense. REDUSER.net creator Jarred Land’s last comment on the particular subject…

Forum member: I’d like to second (and eighth, etc….) the other owners who have suggested a semi-private or restricted posting “Red Owners” forum.

Jarred Land:

I think we can all agree Reduser has become less of a classroom and more like a pub. I think its good for everyone to step back once in awhile to gain a little perspective on the big picture.. not only in relation to this forum but in relation to other aspects of life.

The drama can be addictive to some.. and mob mentality under a somewhat artificial anonymous cloak can be incredibly seductive and make many people express themselves very differently than they would in the real world, throwing stones without consequences.

Unfortunately, rocks are rocks and it doesn’t matter if we at RED can see who is throwing them or not, they hurt us just the same. At any rate.. lots of good feedback from you guys over the last couple days.. Stay tuned..

Well put Mr. Land. Seriously people, leave the trash talk at the bars! I am curious to see what follows but in the mean time my focus and priority is with The Gotham Guerrilla.

DP/programmer Ion Bloom is currently giving a presentation on his very own Crimson workflow, this almost makes the party worth it alone. Ian is an honest guy has he did his best job at not selling his software which he only updated this evening. I spoke with him briefly about it and he simply was trying to be clear that he is not a large company with tech support…no, quite the opposite really he is just one “dude” as he put it. So if you are interesting in his workflow then you should scope it out.

UPDATE: The Vegas update version 0.9.0 is available as a free download.

UPDATE: What I liked about this party the most is I can actually put a face behind the avatar. All this time I thought I was actually speaking to the Hoff in a spedo when its actually Finner, a nice fellow RED user from Canada. LordnumberZero, he is not a lord after all! The party was great, it was a pleasure meeting all of you guys and let me say thanks to Steve Sherrick and gang for organizing and Ketch for bringing desert!

The game is certainly changing in every aspect and not only are your fellow RED user coming up with solutions but this party confirmed for me that there are major players working hard to pave a path for your RED work-flow, there is a light at the end of the tunnel!