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Importing Red Footage
I have a G5 Power Mac and OSX 10.4.11
I am running Final Cut Studio 2
Can I import Red Footage?
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4 Replies
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No. YOu need an Intel Mac to work with RED footage.
Sorry.
Shane
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Hi Melissa,
Short answer: no.
Longer answer: You need an Intel Mac in order to import RED footage, i.e. a Mac Pro or Macbook Pro. Your G5 is Non-Intel.
What you can do is have a post facility or friend with an Intel Mac convert the files to a format you can edit with. Then once you’ve finished your edit, take it to a company or person with the equipment and experience to conform and grade the edit with the raw RED files. Or just stick with your conversions if it’s not imperative that you grade with the best quality files available.
NB. RULE 1 for RED post production is do not, under ANY circumstances, rename the files differently to the originals. If someone puts a gun to your head and tells you to do it, take the bullet. Before anyone converts anything for you make sure they know this! The only difference should be the extension of the file, from .R3D to .mov
If you wish the file names made more sense, add an annotation in one of the ‘Comment’ columns in FCP. Just don’t change the name!Forgive my rant about it, you may already be well aware of that fact. I’m soon to begin grading a RED project where the editor, against every piece of advice given to them, STILL decided to change the file names of the converted clips. Now they must waste their own time changing them back, or pay for my time to do it for them. I’ve really no idea why…
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[Alex Elkins] “NB. RULE 1 for RED post production is do not, under ANY circumstances, rename the files differently to the originals. If someone puts a gun to your head and tells you to do it, take the bullet. Before anyone converts anything for you make sure they know this! The only difference should be the extension of the file, from .R3D to .mov
If you wish the file names made more sense, add an annotation in one of the ‘Comment’ columns in FCP. Just don’t change the name! “Well said, Alex! And this is a general rule for any tapeless system, not just Red. You will screw yourself up just as badly with XDCam, P2 or any tapeless by renaming your clips in FCP, or , heaven forbid, renaming your file names on your drives.
Arnie
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This might be a big rule with RED, but with P2, you can rename all you want. Then if you BATCH CAPTURE, FCP remembers the other metadata, like ORIGINAL FILE NAME (a 32 character name) and will grab the original source and reimport.
I have done this a lot.
Red is no doubt different…so follow that no naming rule there.
Shane
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