[Jim Perry]

Thanks for this tip. I tried it and it worked for me. Thanks for passing along the knowledge.

[Jim Perry]

I posted this on the reduser.net forums, but haven’t seen a response from Red yet, or anyone for that matter.

We have footage shot on a Red Epic. We edited the footage together in a rough cut within Premiere Pro, and then used dynamic link to bring it into After Effects.

Once in After Effects I did a collect to send it to a colleague to have them key it and do color correction etc.

The collect does fine, except for the fact that the Epic red saves in 4GB chunks, and when you link it in AE it works fine. Once collected, the clips if over 4GB, don’t show the sequential clips following… thus leaving sections of black.

What I have to do manually is go into the original AE Project, not the collected one, “reveal in explorer” the missing other Red “chunks” files and move them into the footage clips folder of the collected project, to get the collected AE Prj to work correctly.

Someone at Red or Adobe needs to get this resolved and get on the same page… for some reason AE isn’t picking up these additional red files.

This is under Windows 7, with Adobe Creative Suite 5.

This is a big bug if someone is using AE to do collects for someone else to work on footage or using AE to archive. You’ll be missing sections of video, and only end up with a gap.

[Jim Perry]

August 2012.

I’m using Adobe Creative Suite 5.5 on Windows 7, and this is still an issue, with no resolution I have found. We have done a rough cut with Green screen footage shot on an EPIC Red, and I did the rough cut in Premiere Pro, and used the “replace with After Effects Compostion”, to do the finishing/keying etc. in AE.

It works fine in AE, but if I pass the file in a collected form, to a work colleage, it clips some of the footage, just as Urosh Perishic states.

This only happens doing a “Collect” function… the AE export/link from Premiere is fine… just something gets lost in the translation, when AE goes to do the Collect function.

I’m suprised that RED/Adobe hasn’t gotten on this straight away, because this could really screw someone down the road, if they are using this feature to archive a project, and trying to consolidate down the massive raw files of the RED format.

I even looked on AE scripts and found nothing. This is basically the only post I’ve found on this matter. I’m suprised, in that it could be a massive issue for someone archiving, and them thinking it is archiving properly, during the collect.

Oh by the way if you trace the clipped file back to its original folder and see the other parts to the file, you can move those over to your collected footage file folder, and all will be fixed, but this is a per clip, manual, clip by clip scenario.