In the coming weeks, RED Digital Cinema will be releasing a free mobile app to take your on-set toolkit to the next level. It features six tools that can assist with:

• Visualizing crop factors and lens focal length
• Estimating maximum recording time based on storage space and project settings
• Identifying safe flicker-free frame rate and shutter speeds under pulsed lighting
• Calculating how lens settings affect depth of field
• Seeing how project settings and ND filters influence exposure
• Finding a suggested panning rate to minimize judder and strobing

Each is customizable based on RED sensor and camera type. Versions of this app will be available for both Apple and Android mobile phones.