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(via SlashGear) A little ahead of the official announcement, news has leaked-out that the new direction of RED’s Scarlet camera, which — about a year ago — offered 3K digital resolution filmmaking at a slashed price ($3000), will a modular mix-and-match system where you can choose your components (and resulting price tag) from a nearly dizzying array of options, then go and shoot until you’re blue in the face…

No, I don’t even want to say the words, “RED Scarlet has been canceled”, but, in a note on the RED user boards, Jim Jannard, president of the company, posted a cryptic note: “We have changed everything about Scarlet because the market has changed and we have discovered a lot of things in the process. We have a new vision.” The RED Scarlet page on the site…

In my last post on the subject, I was reasonably pleased with Celtx as an alternative to Final Draft, mainly because it worked beautifully as a native OS X application (especially the font handling) whereas Final Draft seems like it’s just been abandoned on the Mac platform.

Maybe it’s because screenwriters don’t use Macs. That can’t be true, can it?

Anyway, the one major downfall I…

In my seemingly never-ending search for a Mac replacement for the Final Draft screenwriting program (you can see a previous post on this subject here), I stumbled across a free program called, strangely, Celtx (which sounds like some kind of UNIX command line interpreter rather than something creative). I’d looked at this briefly, some time ago, but my thinking then was, “if it’s free, just how good…

I had great hopes for Montage when it was first released, as, prior to this, the only options you had for screenwriting on a Mac were badly-ported, rarely-updated, and bug-prone Windows apps. I did have reservations though. Final Draft, pretty much the industry standard screenplay software out there, had already gone through years of development and professional feedback, while new kid on the block, Montage, from Mariner Software…

At NAB this year, RED announced a whole crap-load of new products which included the “Scarlett”. There is so much right about Scarlett, it must be wrong … it’s basically the same technology as REDOne, which I’ve been very excited about and have been promoting to anyone who will listen (without ever having even touched one), but captures at 1K less (3K for those as bad at math as…