• Adobe Premiere Pro

  R3D Files Scaling to 1080p

  Posted by Marius Crowne on July 28, 2013 at 7:39 pm

  I’m now doing my second RED project in Premiere Pro.

  With the one directly before this (which I finished yesterday), I made a 1080p sequence and dropped R3D files into the timeline (Between 2k and 5k depending on what frame rate I shot at). I turned on the preference to automatically scale the files down to 1080p so, if I were to look at the effects control of a clip on a 5k file it would say that it was at 40% (or something, not sure exactly).

  This was all swell. If I wanted to punch in on a clip, I had a lot of latitude to do it. All I had to do was select that clip and turn off the scaling and BAM, my file blew up to 100% in the 1080 frame and I could scale and reposition as desired.

  NOW THE PROBLEM — On the project I’m working on now, I’ve done exactly the same thing. 1080p sequence. R3D files between 2k and 5k. However, when I drop them into the timeline and they scale automatically, in the effects controls it says the clip is at 100% scale. Therefore, when I try to punch in the quality of the clip degrades.

  I’ve checked and double checked that my sequence is 1080p and that all the clips are larger. I’ve tried creating new sequences of the same size and turning off the automatic scaling before dropping clips in. I even get the “Your clip and sequence are two different sizes” warning and select the option to keep the settings the same.

  What is going on here? I can’t figure out what I did differently between this project and the last.

  Any help would be appreciated.

  //Marius

  Tero Ahlfors replied 12 years, 9 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  Tero Ahlfors

  July 28, 2013 at 8:30 pm

  [Marius Crowne] “However, when I drop them into the timeline and they scale automatically, in the effects controls it says the clip is at 100% scale”

  This is correct. The automatic sequence scaling does not modify the clip scale parameter so that the clip is scaled to the sequence but the scale propery is at 100%.

  [Marius Crowne] “Therefore, when I try to punch in the quality of the clip degrades.”

  That really shouldn’t happen, but you can turn on maximum render quality in your sequence settings.

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