Part 6 - REDCODE = QuickTime? A Complete Guide to REDCODE & CineForm - Cinema Camera RAW recording

"A complete guide to the compressed RAW recording (Redcode & CineForm)" What is inside a REDCODE .r3d file? Can it be viewed directly like a QuickTime video? Why does it need Red's specific players? Is REDCODE patent-worthy or an invention? Red knew they couldn't patent REDCODE, so they had to file for a patent for a camera device with a handle! And they had to choose an absurd, complex-sounding language for their claims to confuse the reader. This video explains the key claims of the RED patent claims and compares it with the CineForm RAW, an earlier wavelet RAW codec. - List of David Newman's patents: https://patents.google.com/?q=Newman+CineForm A few notes, corrections, and clarifications: * 9-7 seen in the JPEG2000 is not a bit divisor between high and low pass. That's the number of coefficients in the FIR filter and is irrelevant to the bits used. However, 9-7 requires twice as much operation as 2-6 in the CineForm adaptation. That is due to the CineForm codec aims to reduce the compute. * Red's green averaging is more CPU intensive than CineForm's. However, apparently, the softness in the Red's footage is due to 2 factors: the blur applied to the output; and their poor demosaicing algorithm. * The "pre-emphasis" curve in Red's patent is the inferior gamma curve and not a better log curve, thus the Red one's poor performance in the shadows. * It seems that in the early editions of the Red one camera, Red didn't do anything to the Red colour. Recording compressed mosaiced RAW Data from a sensor with a Bayer CFA. REDCODE, the RED's patent, and its related prior art, the CineForm RAW codec and Green Average Subtraction (GAS), JPEG2000 and Wavelet image compression techniques.