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    RED workflow question

    Posted by Jon Felix on April 10, 2013 at 2:50 am

    I have read the Apple white paper and other people’s articles about this and there’s one thing I am not clear on. My souped up 2011 IMac won’t play the 5k R3D’s (although the white paper suggests that it would) so clearly I have to transcode. The choice is between optimized media (PR4444) or lower quality proxies. It seems that I can start editing with the optimized option straight away, but I have to wait for the proxy media to finish. So why bother with proxy at all? The high quality Pro Res files play just fine and are better quality.

    I will be grading (with Davinci) and conforming from the original R3D’s btw.

    Thanks,

    Jon

    Jon Felix
    RAINDOG MOTION PICTURES
    Los Angeles

    Jeremy Garchow replied 13 years, 1 month ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  • Jeremy Garchow

    April 10, 2013 at 5:00 am

    Proxy files are significantly smaller, if you needed to save disk space, Proxy media would help.

    Jeremy

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