Red Camera Workflow

[Douglas Spotted eagle]

https://vimeo.com/6259105

Douglas Spotted Eagle
VASST

Certified Sony Vegas Trainer
Aerial Camera/Instructor

[Rick Wise]

Thanks Spot. That’s pretty amazing — editing Red files in native raw state. For FCP you have to render them out first, and for that you need a very expensive Red Rocket card.

A couple of questions:
— how many layers can an “uber” PC handle with these raw files? Suppose you have five images playing in windows, all at once. Can a strong computer handle that?
— what about rendering the final edited piece. How slow is that? (For the Mac you really must have that expensive Red Rocket card for this stage too.)
— what about keyed color correcting, as we know and love in “regular” Vegas — can one do that successfully or is it noisy?

It does look to me like Vegas is in an early stage of development for the Red. For instance, no way to copy the file settings from one clip and paste onto the rest of the clips, as you can do with ordinary FX.

Thanks,

Rick Wise
director of photography
San Francisco Bay Area
and part-time instructor lighting and camera
grad school, SF Academy of Art University/Film and Video
https://www.RickWiseDP.com
https://www.linkedin.com/in/rwise
email: Rick@RickWiseDP.com

[Sean Compton]

How good does the Red Rocket Card work in Vegas, and what mother board, and processor would be needed.

Thanks

[Brad Holt]

I’m wondering the same thing. I’ve got a RED Rocket installed, but it’s hard to tell if I need to activate something within Vegas.

Also, when I alter the RED RAW settings in Vegas (File Format Properties), my changes don’t show in the preview window until I hit OK. How do I make those changes update as I make them?

Thanks!
Brad

[Sean Compton]

to answer your question, I am using an external monitor, to monitor my output, and it updates in realtime.

My question is = Does your red rocket give you more editing power for 4K files?
Thanks