[Göran Thorén]

Ok but if the RED output isn’t it possible to match angles and objects you mean?

[Göran Thorén]

Hi Jeremy and thank’s for your respons!

I was thinking of using a software like conduit or something to overlay a still frame from the live view. The two shots are both are most likely going to be shot on RED.

[Göran Thorén]

Sounds like you have some issues to work out within you company then…

My suggestion is that you contact the encoding company yourself and deliver high res material to them directly. There are tons of way (as you probably know) to deliver files over the net.
If it’s only going to the web at the end you could transcode your files to an avi SD version to get more managable file sizes. My bet is that the encoding company don’t want highly compressed files to begin with. It really sounds strange that you can’t deliver quicktime files. If the encoding company can’t handle that, well, the ignorance is on thier behalf.

[Göran Thorén]

Arnie, I wish you would! 🙂

[Göran Thorén]

Well, as you stated you wanted best possible quality, then big file sizes is what you get.
I can’t see the point of shooting and editing in HD and deliver compressed files to a client that will do another compress to different outputs.
This workflow is the only way to get optimized results. Another way is that you deliver the different formats yourself as specified by the clients. I do this all the time and often it’s like 10 different formats, containers and codecs. I myself use Sorensen squeeze.

[Göran Thorén]

That was a really nifty little software, thank’s Arnie!
No I just need to get the signal in to my laptop…

[Göran Thorén]

Wow, Thank’s for that info Tamas! I didn’t realize that aspect problem.
I guess I will have to look for an I/O solution and get me a software.
Really not in the budget but I’ts crucial that those shots match decent.

[Göran Thorén]

Thank’s again Andy, sorry I didn’t see your note on the I/O earlier.
I just thought of another approach, why not hook up the laptop to the same monitor as the RED monitor?
I guess it would be possible to feed the monitor with the laptop image and just flip between the two inputs on the monitor? I think this would be a very simple but workable solution if it works…
I don’t know if the laptop can send out a videosignal eccept from the dvi. Maby there is a way of getting the dvi into the monitor…

Edit: I now see that I have s-video out from my laptop and with a converter to bnc this might actually work!

[Göran Thorén]

Thank’s Andy!
That software would have been exactly what I was looking for but as far as I undertand it only supports firewire live view. The RED support is a bluetooth thingie that can be used to wireless log takes and such, no live view. And when I think about it, an obvious question comes to my mind; how would I get the RED signal in to a laptop….

Hmm.. I really have to make this work somehow.

[Göran Thorén]

Of course! a mixer! We actually have one here at my work, not the best but it will do for this simple purpose. Thank’s alot Tamas!

I guess I’m going to look at a software solution too, since that could be handy for mobile shoots.
Would be great to be able to just bring your laptop to the set.