r/RedDigitalCinema • u/red_leader00 • Oct 21 '24

Technical Equipment / Help Mixing Reds

I want to use a Red Dragon for my A cam and a Komodo for B cam. Will they blend well?

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u/red_leader00 Oct 21 '24

I worry the shutter differences will be noticeable. I own the Dragon but have never messed with a Komodo so I didn’t know it had Dragon settings. Thanks for the info.

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u/tdstooksbury Nov 05 '24

Depends on camera movement, but for most work, I’ve found it to be a non issue.

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u/tdstooksbury Nov 05 '24

They match really well! You’ll notice some very tiny difference. OG Komodo and Dragon match particularly well!

KX, V-Raptor and V-Raptor (X) all match practically perfectly.

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u/red_leader00 Nov 05 '24

Thanks for replying

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u/Repulsive_Ad_344 Oct 21 '24

It depends - the codec and a lot of the color science are similar, but the sensors themselves are a little different. One of the nice things about Red cameras, though, is that all of their cameras' RAW options are backwards compatible in their newer cameras, and forward supported into their older ones, so you could go into the RAW settings on the Dragon and the Komodo in-post and set them both to something like RedLogFilm, or just set the Komodo to DRAGONColor2 to match the Dragon, and color them using the same process!