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RED shot music video
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.
RED Log and Transfer plug in
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.
