L&T Problems with Red Footage

[Joshua Caldwell]

My AE is going to be testing that soon. Our theory is that, when exporting from Clipfinder, all of the time-code should remain intact. Thus, when you relink everything, your edited portion should still line up correctly with the original R3D timecode. As long as that’s the same, it shouldn’t be a problem.

However, we have no yet tested this. Again, and this may be the case with your footage as well, it’s only a handful of clips.

[Tom Kato]

the clipfinder you have mentioned here is 2.5 ver ($100) ? i am having the same problem and the most of 95% of the footage is green. i am hoping that 100 dollars would save this problem at this point. i really appreciate if you can respond to this. thank you.

[Jonathan Hensley]

Same goes for me Josh. We took a break over Christmas from the project and I decided to go ahead and edit the unaffected scenes, but now I need to move on and there are two key scenes, both of which have corrupted footage.

I presently don’t have Clipfinder, but before I spend $100 on it, I would like to know if it can solve this problem or not.

Thanks!

[Jeremy Garchow]

If there’s dropped frames, my hunch would be that clip finder can’t fix it. Clip finder is awesome for XML/text/code based conforms, not for fixing possible corruption/discontinuous tc.

Jonathan, I know in your screen cap you say it shouldn’t matter, but that’s a huge warning flag that the files were misnamed. If the DIT started renaming the files, what makes you think they were transferred properly in the first place? And it had to be another DIT that day, right? Or DITs little bro while DIT was imbibing on a late night set?

This is also a hunch, I’d try and use RCX and use the r3d trim function to rewrite r3d files. Perhaps that might clean up some things, especially since the proxies seem to sorta work. Like I said, just a hunch.

[Jonathan Hensley]

I guess I just don’t understand why .R3D files crash programs when they are scrubbed over and there is no RED support on the problem. I mean, it is one thing to have a green dropped frame or a portion of footage lost. At least then, however, you can edit around it.

What frustrates me is why it is so hard for RED to release something that keeps Final Cut and Red Cine-X from CRASHING when it encounters a dropped frame. When something that big can ruin an ENTIRE shot, that is a huge problem that needs to be fixed.