[Michal Shipman]

Thanks for the quick responses. I think at this time I’ll stick with Premiere Pro’s native Red Workflow and give MC7 a try when that’s released. I want to avoid any type of transcoding as much as possible.

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Michal Shipman
Editor, Colorist, Director, DVD & Bluray Design
http://www.michalshipman.com
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2988456/
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[Michal Shipman]

Great. So then my last question is, am I able to unscale RED footage in a 1080p timeline or am I stuck with it automatically scaling to 1920×1080? Reason I ask, one of the great things about RED footage is if you need to punch in, and your final output is 1080p, you can zoom in a great deal with out losing quality as long as the clip doesn’t have “scale to frame” enabled.

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Michal Shipman
Editor, Colorist, Director, DVD & Bluray Design
http://www.michalshipman.com
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2988456/
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[Michal Shipman]

Well I figured out the problem. I was exporting to an H.264 using Profile MAIN and Level 3.2

I bumped Profile to HIGH and Level 5.1. Oddly enough the framerate and resolution changed from 1280×720 to 1920×1080 and 23.976 to 59.976. Of course I changed those back to the source and exported the file, which was maxed Variable 2-Pass. The final export file size was 17x larger the standard export, (17mb to 176mb) The text was crisp as the photoshop file!

Tested this out on a 30 minute short film. Using Main and 3.2 the file size was 3.5gb. Maxed out to HIGH and Level 5.1 the file size was 50gb!!!

Wow!

[Michal Shipman]

I should be a little more clear. On my pictures i posted those are screen shots of the video preview. And when I photoshoped the “unrendered” and “rendered” part, those are mixed up. The VERY clear one is unrendered, the blurry one is rendered. Again, these are screenshots of the preview monitor.