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Very quick Boris Red speed ramp question
I’m using Red as a filter inside FCP to speed up some clips. The footage is 10 bit uncompressed digibeta material on a 23.98p timeline (it’s film orginated and has had its pulldown removed).
I know Red only renders in 8 bit with regards to color correction, etc. But if I use it as I explained, will my material be downgraded to 8 bit, or will it still be rendered as 10 bit?
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This is a very good question. Red’s stand alone engine will render 8 bit but when you’re inside of another program and using Red as a plugin, Red uses the render engine inside of the host app. At least it does in Liquid. I don’t know the answer but do your colors shift once rendered in tone when rendered?
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Thanks for that. I didn’t know Red uses the render engine inside of the host app. I’m not sure what that means for workflows. I actually have not noticed any color shift using Red as a FCP filter. A friend did some work in Combustion ad gave it to me back at 23.98 Uncompressed 4:2:2. That file was significantly darker than the original, but I didn’t notice that kind of change when I used Combustion on another clip.
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Red within FCP is only 8 bit. If you use the Boris continuum filters in After Effects and Combustion, most, but not all, filters will be rendered in 16 bit. (After Effects actually gives you a warning when the Boris filter can’t be rendered in 16 bit).
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Very cool! Thank you for the help!
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