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conform workflow for red footage w/ zooms in fcp
Hi Everyone,
We have our sequence and are almost ready to conform. Shot RED 4K, used redrushes to transcode to ProRes 422 (Proxy) which we have been editing with in final cut.
The plan was to use Crimson to conform this footage back to either ProRes 4444 or 422 (HQ).
When I export an XML, and run it (render w/ redline) through crimson and roundtrip back to final cut, we lose all of our scaling that was done on the clips within fcp (they’re interviews, so many push-ins).
Does anyone know of a way to maintain these scaling changes when conforming back from the R3Ds?
I’m open to other programs if they can accomplish this. The idea of telling the editor he’ll need to redo all of his scaling is pretty daunting.
It sounds like this would have been easy if we had just transcoded w/ Log & Transfer… but we didn’t, so here we are.
Thanks so much!
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I don’t think the issue is RedRushes versus Log & Transfer. It is how to get the scaling information via XML to round trip.
Have you been in touch with the Crimson developer? It looks like early software and this may be a simple bug to fixed. Their forum appears to have been trashed by spam.
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Just a thought. If you use Crimson to recapture just the files you need, then use Media Manager to make an offline copy of the final sequence and change the setting to ProRes 4444 or HQ with the final frame size you are working with.
Reconnect this sequence to the new files and the re scaling should have carried across. If your proxy files had the same frame size as the replacements, you should also just be able to reconnect to the new files and scaling is all there without needing Media Manager.
I would naturally make a copy of the final sequence before mucking around with Media Manager and reconnecting.
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