Comments on: RED music videos and DNxHD 36

By: editmarx

editmarx — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 18:19:12 +0000

Just started a feature and have been using the QT ref and DNXHD36 import from medium method. The article is right. Looks great, takes long.

Will be jumping on this tomorrow. Stay tuned.

By: editblog

editblog — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 14:46:17 +0000

Dylan, I’ve found that for music videos I really like Avid’s grouping methods much more than FCP. If I am just doing cuts and dissolves then I can work faster on Avid. FCP has worked great with RED but I always transcode and don’t cut the proxies due to performance issues.. you just can’t multiclip and edit with real speed. Other than that they are similar.

By: editblog

editblog — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 14:43:02 +0000

rejean, I ran the proxies through Compressor to Avid’s DNxHD 36 codec. It must be installed on your system but it’s a free download from Avid.

By: editblog

editblog — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 14:42:03 +0000

Gopal, I don’t think there is a 720 DNxHD setting, at least I didn’t see one. I went with the default DNxHD 36 settings which are 1080. They are really small files so drive space and playback shouldn’t be an issue.

By: Gopal Balaji

Gopal Balaji — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 06:17:27 +0000

Unable to find DNxHD 36 for 720p?

Missing Something?

By: rejean

rejean — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 16:45:21 +0000

You wrote that you run the high quality reference files through compressor, but what codec/video settings are you exporting to?

By: Dylan Reeve

Dylan Reeve — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 12:32:17 +0000

Can you elaborate a bit on your FCP experience with RED? To be honest I\’ve barely tried in FCP – when I did I found the performance to be greatly lacking, and had a render-tastic time.

I\’ve been using Avid since then.

REDAlert (and line and rushes) now support DNxHD directly, although no option to pick datarate so 36 won\’t be available. However (there had to be one) it requires a new version of the DNxHD Quicktime codec, which apparently hasn\’t been released by Avid yet…

By: Josh Diamond

Josh Diamond — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 12:21:04 +0000

We have also been doing the exact same thing at our house and i agree that it has been flawless so far. Also you dont need to compress the “H” proxies…use the “M” proxies since the H proxies arent true 4k files but double sized sized 2K files (not the same). We use the “M” proxies and the files are smaller and look just as good. especially if you arent finishing in the AVID.

Also we have finished in the avid using Magic Bullet Looks as our primary grader and let me tell you it is fantastic. Try taking a pass with it (assuming you have hi-res cross converst of your proxies DNxHD175 or higher) and see what you think. Pretty great.