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By: Dylan Reeve

Dylan Reeve — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 10:45:33 +0000

Unfortunately I don’t have access to any of my RED footage at the moment, but I believe the QT files generated by the camera and also by REDline contain both timecode tracks (TOD and Edgecode) I presume that the view setting will determine which track is the primary one in the QT file? I will try to look into this soon.

In the mean time I use this basic shell script to generate a CSV file with file metadata in it that can be useful to refer to in some cases.

#!/bin/bash
PWD = `pwd`
echo “Filename,ReelID,Camera,Reel,Clip,Date,Time,FrameWidth,FrameHeight,FPS,TotalFrames,TCStart,EdgecodeStart,TCEnd,EdgecodeEnd,Kalvin,Tint,Exposure,Saturation,Contrast,Brightness,GainRed,GainGreen,GainBlue,BlackX,BlackY,ToeX,ToeY,MidX,MidY,KneeX,KneeY,WhiteX,WhiteY”
find “$PWD” -name “*_001.R3D” -exec /usr/sbin/REDline -i “{}” –printMeta 2 \;

(I haven’t checked that for a while, REDline might output more data now or in a different order).

By: dec

dec — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 19:53:07 +0000

I have a Red Post job now. I don’t know the settings during production, but the quicktime proxies were brought into FCP with Log And Transfer and all had TOD tc. I exported XML to Crimson and TOD timecodes remained consistant. I exported XML from Crimson and imported into Redcine. Here Redcine showed TOD tc, but when I started to export DPX the timecode switched to Edge tc. Obviously, when I tried to link the DPX to the FCP EDL, timecode did not match.

By: Kyle Gilman

Kyle Gilman — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 23:37:27 +0000

I just started working with Red footage this week. I’m working with clips from the OpenCut project and if I bring the proxies into FCP I get edge code. If I use the Log and Transfer plugin I get TOD. I checked it out and there are two timecode tracks in the proxy files. If I delete the first track I now get TOD when I import the proxy into FCP. I made a little AppleScript to delete all the 1st timecode tracks in QT files of a given directory and its subdirectories. It is DESTRUCTIVE. If you want those tracks back after the script runs you have to regenerate your proxies. This has only been tested on a few clips, and I’ve never done any AppleScripting before, so use with caution.

The permanent home of the script is http://www.kylegilman.net/2008/06/04/red-tc-fixer/