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RED footage and Adobe Premiere CS6
This might have been covered already, I have not been able to find an exact answer.
I am using Adobe Premiere CS6, and recently a client inquired as to wether I had what was needed to edit RED footage. He mentioned that I needed some sort of converter software provided by RED.
Is this true? Can I not just import the footage straight into Premiere? What all do I need to utilize video shot on a RED camera?
I work on a 12-core 2.4 ghz Mac Pro (2012), with 16gb RAM, ATI Radeon 5870 1gb, 3 tb hard drive and Mountain Lion.
Thanks!
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The RED Rocket hardware from RED is what they might have been talking about.
You don’t necessarily need it.
What you would need to edit RED footage is:
a RAID of some kind so playback is snappy.
an NVIDIA GPU / video card so that Mercury Transmit is enabled.and the RED importer plugins found here:
https://labs.adobe.com/technologies/redepic_importer/
You might also get more RAM, you’re just about the minimum.
I’ve been able to play .r3d files from the timeline at 1/4 rez
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Thanks Chris, that totally answers my question! Now I can go about doing this right 🙂 Have an amazing day!
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I should mention that hard drive speed is rarely an issue (unless you’re doing multicam/multilayer edits of course) but the playback speed is mostly dictated by playback quality. You maybe be able to get away with half quality for your processor, but 1/4 is the norm for a good machine without a Red Rocket card.
The Red Rocket card does hardware debayering of the RED raw footage, basically taking care of the most computationally expensive part of the playback/conversion process.
Full quality rendering for your final product will take quite a bit of time, so benchmark your system before promising tight deadlines. We’re talking on the end of 20 mins for 1 minute of footage at 4k without a Red Rocket card, again if not a bit faster because you’re on the 12core.
Angelo Lorenzo
Fallen Empire Digital Production Services – Los Angeles
RED transcoding, on-set DIT, and RED Epic rental services
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Thank you Angelo for that advice, all of this info is certainly guiding me in my decisions concerning RED footage. I’m still debating on wether to get a Red Rocket Card but it is nice to know it’s not absolutely necessary. And its especially nice to know my 12 core computer can handle footage like this. And thank you for the advice to benchmark my outputs before I agree to deadlines, certainly don’t want to promise something I can’t follow through on 🙂 Thanks again everyone!
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On my HP Z820 I can play 4K files at 1/2 resolution (2K) in real time. I once created a 4 way multi split screen and that played back in real time as well. No Red Rocket, just kick ass computer and Nvidia GTX 570.
Tom Daigon
PrP / After Effects Editor
http://www.hdshotsandcuts.com
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRIg6h-LIm0 (Best viewed at 1080P and full screen)
HP Z820 Dual 2687
64GB ram
Dulce DQg2 16TB raid
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