RED releases REDrushes
By S Simmons. Filed in Mac software, RED |
FreshDV noted that RED has released new versions of a number of their tools. The RedAlert release now includes REDrushes, a batch processing application which looks to be a similar workflow to running the Quicktime reference proxies through Compressor. You should get better results in image quality in that REDrushes is working directly with the .R3D files. There are options to create TIFFs, DPXs and Quicktimes. A number of Quicktime codecs are available but as of the build I have there is NO option for Avid DNxHD! I hope this is just an oversite as the codec is available in REDCine so I don’t understand why if wouldn’t be available here as well. As with most RED software releases there isn’t a lot of documentation and you wouldn’t know REDrushes is even there if you didn’t notice it in the release notes on the RED site or just happen to see it in your applications folder after the REDAlert install. It’ll be great when RED one day really buckles down and concentrates on the post software they are supplying but until then REDrushes is a good step forward for batch processing. I’m putting on a batch overnight so here’s to hoping it doesn’t crash!
