[Tom Cross]

Thanks to both of you for your suggestions.

For the time being I decided to stay in the Mac world and transcode using REDrushes instead of Metafuze.

I wanted to transcode directly to Avid mediafiles with Metafuze but only had Macs to work with. I could have run Windows via bootcamp for Metafuze but was concerned that all the cores of the CPU wouldn’t be utilized. I do have a couple of questions that are coming up:

— Our production sound mixer is recording directly into the camera so our R3D files have the sound embedded. He is recording 24 bit. However, after I transcode in REDrushes and import into the Avid, the sample bit depth changes to 16 bit. The Avid import settings are set to use the source’s compression and sample rate. In other words, it’s not changing the source to the project’s settings. As a test, I imported a BWF that was supposed to be 24 bit and it came in at 24 bit which seems to support that idea. It seems that either REDrushes is changing the bit rate during transcoding, or that somehow the RED Camera never recorded 24 bit at all.

We threw one of the RED proxies into Final Cut and looked at the audio data and it said 32 bit integer. Any thoughts on what that means?

Tom Cross

[Tom Cross]

Thanks so much for this info Job. It’s been difficult to find people who actually use Metafuze.

I was watching a video tutorial on the Avid website
https://www.avid.com/metafuze/

and it sounded like they were saying that you could apply a LUT:

“For color management insure you have the proper LUT applied, depending on the source.
LUT management can be accessed directly from the Edit LUT button. A series of preset LUTs can then be accessed or custom LUT settings can be created… 1D and 3D LUTs created elsewhere, can also be imported into Metafuze.”

Does that sound inaccurate? Or am I misunderstanding what the tutorial is saying?
thanks again

Tom Cross