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Conforming Red
There’s a lot of posts around the web on this subject and it’s very difficult to figure out the best / possible ways of conforming a sequence to the original R3D files.
This is what has happened so far on the feature I was involved with:
- The film was shot on the Red Cam at 4k 2:1
- The rushes were transcoded into DV PAL using Red Rushes
- The film was offline edited in FCP and is now picture locked
The film is very low budget and can’t afford too much time in a post house.
Now we need to get to HD-CAM SR for Edinburgh Film Festival.
Oh yeh, they also want a 35mm Film Print – just thought I’d drop that bombshell in!So my question is one about conforming. What is the best way to get to where we want?
My thoughts so far:
- Using Clip finder and importing the sequence XML
- Replace the clips in the sequence xml (using clipfinder) to be that of the 2k Red Proxy (as I understand I couldn’t do it to the 4k R3D files?
- Import XML back into FCP
- Send sequence to Color and Grade
- Render to DPX or ProRes
- Send to FCP for titles etc.
- Export as Uncompressed quicktime and hope that a Post House can put that to a HDCAM SR
Has anyone experienced this type of workflow from DV PAL? And if the grading needed to be done in a post house what adjustments would be made to the above? What are people’s thoughts on going from the 2k to 35mm and going from a 4k to 35mm – is it worth the extra effort / cost to do 4k over the 2k?
Thanks to this community for being amazing – thoroughly enjoy reading all contributions!
Michael Cheung
Editor/Assistant Editor/DIT
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While a lot of people that use RED are here, there is a RED forum that you have more people to help you.
https://forums.creativecow.net/redcamera
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