[Jonathan Holm]

FYI a little update on my situation.

The files that we received were transferred from another drive which had the original files on it. We tracked down the originals and are exporting again now and halfway through it looks to be the fix. Must have been something with the transfer…

[Jonathan Holm]

Gotcha.

So, to recap the thread that you linked to: there’s a good chance that the files are just corrupt and I’m screwed, right?

[Jonathan Holm]

Trying to get them back now. I’m wondering if the files won’t read on my computer because I don’t have the proper Red Firmware installed? I tried to download it off the site but it’s a protected download.

[Jonathan Holm]

Thank you so much! I’ll look into this. Someone also suggested “Red Undead” to me, may try that too.

[Jonathan Holm]

Mac OS X 10.6.4 w/Intel Processor

FCP v 7.0.3

Shot on a Red MX camera

Apple Pro Res 4444

Sorry to sound so clueless, but what do you mean by RAID configuration?

[Jonathan Holm]

Just FYI I tried the Red Giant plugin as a quick test before buying the Nick Shaw one, and it can’t read the cdl format.

Also, responding to Todd’s post earlier, I totally agree more communication was necessary. Unfortunately we were told about the specs only a few hours before they shot it so that’s why we’re dealing with it now. Looks like we may have a workable solution though.

[Jonathan Holm]

Great, thank you. This is not going on the big screen, so I think we’ll be fine using 8 bit over 10 bit and making slight adjustments to get the color correction exactly right. Going to download the full Nick Shaw plugin and use that.

Thanks again for all your help everyone!

Jonathan

[Jonathan Holm]

“I believe these are just default settings. His plug-in uses his own curve values reverse-engineered from ARRI’s log-C to 709 corrections.”

So does that mean it is not reading the LUT file? After I apply the Nick Shaw filter, the color timing looks pretty close to what the DP wanted (he sent us bitmaps of the images with the color timing information). How is it so accurate without actually reading the LUT file?

“He is processing in 8-bit and therefore considers these for dailies only. 10-bit values would be better. You may get some banding in gradients like skies. OTOH most of your footage will likely look OK.”

So does that mean the quality of the footage is degraded?

Thanks again for your help.

[Jonathan Holm]

Hi guys,

Thanks again for all your help.

I just downloaded the Nick Shaw plugin demo and it looks like it is reading the LUTs properly. Does it automatically read the LUT files that are in the same folder and apply the color correction to the clips? I can’t tell if it is reading the LUT file or if the plugin is just doing a general color correction.

Also, is there a technical reason we can’t finish with the Shaw plugin? Our post budget does not allow us to go to a big color correction house, and we are doing a lot of after effects work so we need to have the LUTs applied before we send the clips to our graphics guy.

Thank you everyone, you’re all a huge help.

[Jonathan Holm]

Thanks a lot guys. Our biggest issue is that we’re supposed to finish here, not go to a CC house. They don’t have that in their budget for post, sadly. But all of your info has been extremely helpful. Might end up going with the Nick Shaw plugin and just work with that.