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AMA Red footage playing in black & white
I’ve recently started working on a project that was shot on Red. The footage for the first couple of days is fine, but when I link via AMA to the footage the the 2nd 2 days, it brings some clips in in black and white, and then transcodes them black and white.
Has anyone come across this before or have any suggestions as to what to do? When I watch the Red files (not in Avid), they are in colour so I don’t think it;s the files.
Thanks,
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If you right click on an AMA clip you can bring up the Source Settings, you can change the saturation before you transcode. If the metadata from the camera has the saturation up then it should match that, don’t know why it isn’t.
Andrew McKee
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Thanks for that! It looks like there was an error while filming and the saturation was turned ‘down’. It’s only for a quarter of the footage, so 3/4s of it is fine!
However there’s been a slight change.
I’m now editing the project in Final Cut 7. So it’s the same question lol. How do I adjust the saturation so that when I transcode the b&w files to prores, they are ‘colour’?
And can I do this in Final Cut? Someone else suggested that I use Redcinex. But I haven’t got a clue how to use it! I opened the files in redcinex, turned the saturation up to 1, but how do I transcode the ‘edited’ files out to prores lt? And can I ‘batch export’ them?
However, I’d rather use FCP to transcode, if possible, because 3/4s of the footage is being transcoded this way, and I presume it will make it easier when I come to the end of the edit and start the actual colour grade in Color?
Thanks!
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