RED Log and Transfer plug in
By S Simmons. Filed in Editing |
In addition to all the RED hardware announcements that popped up during NAB 2008, they also dropped a Beta release of a plug-in for Final Cut Pro that adds the ability to transcode ProRes files directly from raw RED. R3D files. It’s still very beta at version 0.0.1 but it seems to be working pretty well.
The log and transfer window looks exactly the same as before. You do get an option added for setting different color balances upon import via the settings pop-up menu:
All imported RED files are transcoded to either ProRes or ProRes HQ. One thing to note is that all the files are import at half the resolution of the original. This option can be set in the Preferences:
Call me crazy but what might be one of the most useful uses of this tool is that there is finally a way to look at a folder full of .R3D files and get an idea of exactly what the specs are of the footage that you have. Things like resolution, timecode, audio and file size can be easily seen by selecting the appropriate columns in the Log and Transfer tools. Click the image below to get a better look.
Tags: RED
Friday, April 18th 2008 at 6:46 pm
Brilliant! Thanks for the updates Scott.
Saturday, April 19th 2008 at 9:33 am
I find one disadvantage with the tool. Every clip is transcoded to Apple Pro Res422 / HQ in half the resolution. If your R3D is 4k you will get 2k movie and if you have 2k R3D you will get only 1024 X 512.
Why not we have the 2k at the same resolution?
Thoughts and comments?
Saturday, April 19th 2008 at 9:53 am
Gopal,
This is a known bug that RED commented on. This is such an early version that it will be fixed. Of course, other than film output, do you really ever NEED to work at 4K? That just seems so overkill for anything other than film.
Saturday, April 19th 2008 at 11:51 pm
I thought of working on 2K rather than 4K and my worry is about the 2k consistency of all my footage rather than 2K and 1K in my Timeline.
Wednesday, April 23rd 2008 at 3:28 am
I suggest that the first thing should be to report to the prores clip the correct reel id (the embedded one, if there is) not the parent directory name, this could create confusion in the next steps in DI workflow
Wednesday, April 23rd 2008 at 1:42 pm
The 1/2 resolution is not due to the L&T window, rather, it’s a function of the underlying RED QuickTime codec which will be
updated to support full resolution soon.
Thursday, June 19th 2008 at 5:24 pm
The only problem is footage ingested with Log and Transfer and edited cannot be sent to COLOR, if you try to send your sequence to color it crashes
so it really causes more hassle than help.
Unless someone knows of a fix to this?
Tuesday, July 8th 2008 at 3:17 pm
I’m answering my own question here, but I see that you’re using Leopard and I’m assuming that you only get all of that wonderful information with FCP 6.0.4 and not 6.0.3? I’m on Tiger and 6.0.3 and am only able to see the same old info as usual. Updates and I go together like… nothing funny enough that I can think of. But you get the idea.