RED Footage importing at odd resolutions

[David Roth weiss]

[John Austin] “When I import red footage into FCP via the log and transfer window it’s coming in at a frame size of 2048×1152.”

That’s not a strange size, that’s the standard widescreen size of a 2K frame at approximately 1.85 to 1 (which RED calls 2:1). Keep in mind, that’s a standard dimension for widescreen films — 2K images until recently have pretty much been the domain of feature films.

When imported into FCP the video will be letterboxed in a standard 1920×1080 16:9 HD video frame, which is proper if you want to see the entire frame. If you want it to be full frame you will have to scale it to fill the frame horizontally, which will cut off the frame at both ends.

Does this make sense?

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[John Austin]

Yes it does, but my next question then is can this project be output directly to HDCam?

[David Roth weiss]

[John Austin] “Yes it does, but my next question then is can this project be output directly to HDCam?”

I’m not exactly sure what you’re asking John when you say “directly,” but I’ll wing it…

With a suitable HD I/O card or device (Kona, BM, Matrox) and the proper Raid you can certainly output to HDCam. Depending on which card you have you can down-convert with the hardware to HDCam with some, while and with others you’ll have to create an HD timeline that scales with software inside FCP.

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[John Austin]

yeah I just want to lay back to HD Cam from a time line thats 2048 X 1152. So would it be better to transcode the footage in Red Rushes to 1920X1080 and then edit in Final cut or does it matter?

[Gary Adcock]

[John Austin] “yeah I just want to lay back to HD Cam from a time line thats 2048 X 1152.”

max raster for SR tape is 2048×1080.

I use a kona3 card to handle either conversion or crop from 2K masters during layoff. ( 2048×1080 or 1920×1080). That way the card is doing all of the work.

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[John Austin]

I’m doing this on my mac pro lap top with Apple Pro Res 422HQ. Then We want to color correct in color and output to HD cam at 1080P. Does this sound like I’m on the right track?

[Steve Oakley]

an MXO2 would work nicely with the laptop….

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