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hey what is up guys I'm QB HD here and remember red Raven the entry-level red camera with their most competitive price I made a video about it before I even came out walking through it showing you around it it was pretty awesome but then it disappeared it stopped being sold if you went to red site over the past couple of months you notice it wasn't there it wasn't an option to buy because they weren't selling but now it is back but with an interesting twist so this video is to announce that the Red Raven will be going back on sale as a camera kit through Apple comm exclusively and available to demo in certain Apple stores well that's a pretty big move from red a company that's been making a lot of pretty big moves lately so the Raven kit will be alongside all the other high visibility products that Apple sells on their website you probably already knew they sell first party accessories but Apple comm sells third party accessories as well this is joining those so what exactly is in the Raven kit you get the Red Raven brain a 4.7 inch touchscreen LCD monitor possibly my favorite piece of video gear of all time the Sigma 18 to 35 X 1.8 this Outrigger handle Reds bee lock iOS pander module 2 v-mount ID X batteries and their charger 120 gig mini mag SSD a GTX mini mag reader and this can all fit into a heavy duty case by an Inukshuk it - plus a copy of Final Cut Pro 10 and the full control app for iOS the raven camera kit version so you can kind of look at it as like a one-stop shop for all things needed to get this camera off the ground and running you're ready to get shooting and this isn't for like a beginner video maker obviously this is for someone who's been making video for a while but wants to take that next step up into the red of raw world above 4k i've already talked about what these cameras are capable of in the past in case you've forgotten I'll leave some links below but the bottom line here is red cameras are known for their image quality and the red Raven is no exception with the red you get the brain of course and then you add modules you want based on how you're going to be shooting and of course you can add more modules to this kit at any time and then once you get shooting you get the super realistic image the awesome color science the high resolution the huge dynamic everything you should get from a cinema camera and then of course all the benefits of raw video have I ever have ever talked to you guys through raw video like what a really mean in photography a raw photo versus a JPEG is a pretty big deal a JPEG is already processed has all the color and information baked in compressed ready to go but if you want to edit any of it you can push it a little bit but the quality will start to fall apart pretty quickly with any major editing so raw photos keep all the sensor information unprocessed so the files are bigger but if you want to make any edits to color temperature ISO contrast sharpness you can do so without losing much of any quality that's the super simplified version so with video pretty much any camera from your smartphone to a DSLR to a camcorder the videos they record are like the JPEGs all the color information and everything is baked into a video codec so pro res video is sort of the equivalent of JPEG for photos but red cameras are one of the few that can shoot raw video which means things like color temperature and ISO etcetera are just metadata and there are things that can be changed after the fact without much of any difference in quality that is the number one reason I switched to red cameras a couple years ago when I first tried scarlet for a couple days for the glory that is raw video so what I'm running and gunning I'm shooting as well as I can but I'm not worrying too much about the perfect exposure or perfect color temperature etc you do want to get a writing camera but I'm more paying attention to things like framing and camera movement and other more creative things that you can't change later so I get it pretty close to correct usually but then here's the kicker you bring the raw r3d files into Final Cut Pro and there's a Final Cut Pro plug-in on red site once you grab and install that Final Cut Pro can not only see the red footage but it can see and change all the metadata just like editing raw photos there's there's literally a color temperature slider here in Final Cut Pro thanks to that plug-in that's what are some of the before and after frames for my videos would probably shock you it's not quite magic but it's about as close as it gets in my world and then this raven over here ten shoot both red code raw and pro res simultaneously so if you're on a shoot and you don't actually need that raw footage you don't have to use it so yeah Raven is a great first raw video tool I think again people who are just stepping into the world of beyond 4k it's a four point five case sensor and people who just want that flexibility of having a modular camera system it's not really for beginners like I said but it's kind of interesting that it'll be in Apple stores and a lot of people will be seeing this for the first time and it's kind of in a place where people are first getting their feet wet from rigging your camera to be a video camera to an actual full-fledged cine camera with all the modularity that comes with that it's really interesting so that's Red Raven its back now you know maybe you'll see in an Apple store near you that's pretty much it thank you for watching tough to guys the next one peace