RedCode and RedCine

Not to beat a RED horse, but the awesomeness of this camera continues to astound me:

Q: I noticed that when the announcement was made that Redcode was now 12 bit capable, the target data rates weren't changed. Is that affecting the image quality? Or are you just tweaking the compression figures?

A: We're improving the compression in other areas to compensate. That's working very well, and that, combined with the efficiencies of RAW, and that when there's less processing applied to data, there's less extra noise introduced, it is compressing great. One of the things that people forget, is that all the traditional image processing that gets applied to video detracts from it's ability to be easily compressed. Adding sharpness or edge enhancement, colour processing, or gamma all add noise or make the image harder to compress. By leaving the RAW data in as RAW a state as possible, we can achieve the our quality and compression ratio goals.

--HD For Indies