Michael Reese
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I agree, that’s a great question. I intend on transferring to HDCAM SR for film festival release. What do you think, is 2k output overkill? Or will pro res HQ work just fine?
Also, I’m thinking of getting a new imac and selling my mac pro (the specs are listed in this thread) because it’s early 2008 model won’t allow me to upgrade to a better video card. See any downside to this?
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Is there a way to edit ProRes in FCP and then export full resolution and bypass the compression? Basically, I’m at the point where I need to reassemble my edit so that I can export a master that I can give to a post facility to put onto a HD CAM SR tape for film festivals.
Because I could easily compress the quicktime in REDCINE and then put in into final cut and re-edit, but I’m afraid that when I go to export the master, it won’t be full resolution.
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Just looked into it and remembered that I exported as uncompressed 10bit 4:2:2. So that would be the type of quicktime I’m trying to playback and edit.
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It’s just a quicktime wrapper put onto an r3d file… I think… I imported an edl from FCP into REDCINE-X and then onlined my clips to the original r3d’s, then I exported as a 2k quicktime. Would that be correct?
So you’re saying I don’t need more ram or another graphics card, just faster storage? I don’t understand how it helps (I’m not disagreeing, just confessing my ignorance)… So I’d have to put the file onto the raid storage and playback from there and it would work?
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Matt, that was the first method I tried. It turned out to be pretty tedious and if for some reason you had a rogue editor that decided to change file names, you’ll have to sit there manually reconnecting all the clips. I mean, if you are staying in color, I know that you can access the RAW file data via the RED tab when you ingest as native.
For me storm was just a breeze to use, automatically located and reconnected all the clips based off of an xml. Now I did have a few weird problems I had to work around… had to take out all the audio and speed FX before exporting xml for it to work in storm, but once I was there everything else was a breeze…
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Our film was shot really well… except for one shot, the last shot of the film, the most important one. It’s a night exterior that is pretty much unlit. That shot has values between 0-30 (on the 0-100 scale). The colors in that will have to be pushed a lot.
We’re going for a film festival run, output to HDCAM is what’s been recommended to me. If you have a better suggestion please let me know. I’d like to output at the highest quality I can if it will be displayed in theaters at festivals.
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Hey so I got a message back from the colorist who said “We grade with a Davinci 2K. Depending on what room we use, we either use a Clipster or work directly off of a Resolve.” If I get him everything in dpx will it be comparable to giving him the r3d files? Or are they night and day in terms of quality/image data?
I just don’t get why they want to grade off of a qt. The more I learn about it, the more it doesn’t make any sense. You did say before though that a dpx would make sense on the “old school” system. Let me know what you think.
Thanks!
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So taking out all the speed changes worked. Got it working and ready to go, but now I’m worried about why the colorist wants an uncompressed quicktime. Like you said originally, it doesn’t make any sense. Especially for a high end post facility like Company 3. Doesn’t it mean that they wont be able to manipulate the original RED data since it will be baked into the quicktime? Or does it not matter?
Thanks so much for your help and the recommendation of STORM. What a fantastic program!
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Alright, so I got it to work by deleting all the audio in my final cut timeline, then exporting XML file, but now I am having a problem with reconnecting any media where I used a speed change… does that mean I should undo all those changes, then export the xml into STORM, then reconnect all media? I’ll just have to keep track of the speed changes I used so I can make them again when I get back the color corrected footage?
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Okay so I’m trying to reconform using STORM but now when I try to import my xml from final cut, I get the following error message:
“Error setting timeline timebase in clip ‘….’ ”
Anyone know how to trouble shoot?