RED shot music video
By S Simmons. Filed in Editing, Final Cut Pro, RED |
I meant to pop this link up before leaving for NAB but oh well….
This Josh Gracin music video (former American Idol contestant) was the first big RED camera job that I have seen through from pre-production all the way through to final finishing. It was a very quick turn-around with a tight delivery deadline so the plan was to edit with ProResHQ Quicktime files generated by the camera rental house DR&A and then be able to output them to tape for color grading if we couldn’t go back to the raw RED .R3D clips and pull DPX files. Thankfully we had the time to do just that. I bought a copy of Crimson Workflow and it worked very well to generate DPX files that were then conformed in our Quantel eQ using lists pulled from Final Cut Pro via Automatic Duck. The edit was color graded on our DaVinci 2K Plus and now it’s on the air! I love it when a plan comes together. Too bad You Tube quality sucks.
Tags: Final Cut Pro, music video, RED
Thursday, April 24th 2008 at 1:57 pm
This looks great–but you’re right, all is lost in Youtube. Do you know if there is a hi-res version out anywhere? So is the workflow as bad as they say it is with RED?
Friday, April 25th 2008 at 7:01 am
it needs more of the kids at the end….
Tuesday, April 29th 2008 at 11:14 am
Craig.. don’t know of a hi-rez version floating around. You can find a higher one here: http://www.scottsimmons.tv/music%20video/we_werent_crazy/we_werent_crazy.html
The workflow isn’t the simplest thing in the world but it’s not the worst either. Just be ready to trouble shoot …