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RED with no QT wrapper files
I received a drive that had two folders of RED footage. One for A-camera and one for B-camera. I used RED Cine-X to transcode the footage to ProRes422 to edit in FCP. A-camera was fine. I tried to load the B-camera into the Bin and apply settings for export, but it says that it “failed to open file” and the thumbnail is black with a red “X” on it. I looked in the folder and the B-camera footage doesn’t have any of the usual 4 QT files inside each clip folder for some reason. Only the raw RED files.
How can I get those files transcoded without it? Is it possible?
Why would they be missing?
Thanks in advance,
Eddie -
6 Replies
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If you have the Adobe suite on your FCP machine you can use Adobe Media Encoder to transcode. It’s not as elegant as RED Cine-X, but will do the job.
David Roth Weiss
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Thanks, David. I just tried it and Adobe ME says that “The source file appears to be corrupted. Please check that it is a valid file.”
Any other ideas??
Thanks,
Eddie -
Call the client.
David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor/Colorist
David Weiss Productions, Inc.
Los Angeles
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Just did. Wanted to make sure there was no other way first or that I was missing something on my end.
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RED Rushes might work. Obviously the complete file structure wasn’t transferred from the B camera.
The other possibility is that you can load the R3D files into Color or da Vinci and render out quicktimes in the right codec and frame size but I don’t know if you will lose timecode data doing this. If you are doing a workflow that relinks then that is disaster.
Searching and askin on the RED forums might also solve this for you.
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Try to update the red Cine x, if I’m not mistaken Red Epic does not come with QT warpper file
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