[Urosh Perishic]

PROBLEM RESOLVED!!

it was my lack of knowledge of how Red footage works.

Solution: nothing was wrong!
Red creates a folder for each clip recorded. If the clip is longer than 4 minutes it creates another file and continues saving. so if let’s say the clip is 9 minutes long, it will create 3 files. and name them _01.R3D , _02.R3D and _03.R3D

when importing into After Effects you only select the _01.R3D file and it will import all R3D files that are in that folder as ONE!

So, Collect files doesn’t work for RED footage because after effects only collects the one file that you originally imported and leaves the others behind, making those clips 4 mins long each.

I’m writing all this out in case anybody else encounters this issue doesn’t have to bang their head on the desk, cursing the AE gods in despair.

Dave, thank you for all your help!!
I am off to delivery and looking foward to sleeping tonight!! 🙂
Ollie

[Urosh Perishic]

Thanks for the reply once again.
I just checked the file sizes, and they are exactly the same yet the clip is half the length.

going deeper down the rabbit hole….

[Urosh Perishic]

Thank you for responding.
Yes, I was thinking the same thing. What I fail to comprehend is the fact that the project loads fine on a mac from the FAT 32 Ext drive and everything works fine.

But now i tried copying a R3D file from the master ext drive (Mac OS Extended that the editor used to cut the footage) onto the other Mac drive (that’s i’m trying to deliver on) and the same problem happens once i import the file into AE. I copied this manually, not through AE, so things are getting even more confusing!!!

So whether i copy from the master ext or from the PC ext drive that i worked on, the files don’t work once imported into AE.

maybe the Mac Ext drive that i’m copying to is corrupted? logical i guess. I’ll try reformatting the thing and see if that solves it.
argh!! this thing is due today! 🙂

[Urosh Perishic]

Yeah, I am working in CS5