R3D files in Edius

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Westminster Productions

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Hey guys.

I know I should go on to the GrassValley web site and find this answer myself, but I want to know if any Edius users out there are able to get the Red One's R3D files onto the time line?
 
Nope.

Been dealing with R3D files this week and I am a full on EDIUS user. But I've had to rely on CS4 for conversion.

My workflow was CS4-PPro -> 4K_R3D -> 1920x1080p timeline -> output DVCPRO HD 1440-1080i file through media encoder.

I don't know of any other way without using massive tiff files.

This system works though and it's not too lumpy.
 
Thanks for the input. At the moment we are trying to supply rushes to the clients over night, going through Scratch to .mov, then into Edius and burning to DVD off the time line, but Edius isn't liking the .mov for some reason. We get black chunks on the DVD. Looking for a way to put R3D files on the time line and render straight to disc. It has to be a 1, 2 steps at the most proceedure, as non of us want's to be here all night waiting to switch between apps to make it happen.
 
Westminster Productions said:
Thanks for the input. At the moment we are trying to supply rushes to the clients over night, going through Scratch to .mov, then into Edius and burning to DVD off the time line, but Edius isn't liking the .mov for some reason. We get black chunks on the DVD. Looking for a way to put R3D files on the time line and render straight to disc. It has to be a 1, 2 steps at the most proceedure, as non of us want's to be here all night waiting to switch between apps to make it happen.
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Vegas can do this. And you can do it in the RedCine program on the PC. Not sure if there is an equivalent on the Mac, but it seems like 90% of the time Mac users get RED stuff PC users can't or we get late... so I'd be surprised if there wasn't an easy Dailies workflow for you.

Maybe chat with the guys at OffHollywood or something.
 
I did try redcine-x but I couldn't find a happy intermediate codec, that said I didn't spend much time on it as redcine-x had issues with our ATI cards.

CS4 is the most hassle free, flexible and pretty quick: it takes approx 6 mins on our system to do a 30second downconvert from 4K and we are only core2.
 
Ah ok. Yea, RedCine likes NVidia and the RED team is very upfront about that. I typically use DNxHD for intermediate files. And for dailies, I'd be using the 36Mpbs variant.

But if CS4 is working for you... then stick with that.
 
ROne said:
Nope.

Been dealing with R3D files this week and I am a full on EDIUS user. But I've had to rely on CS4 for conversion.

My workflow was CS4-PPro -> 4K_R3D -> 1920x1080p timeline -> output DVCPRO HD 1440-1080i file through media encoder.

I don't know of any other way without using massive tiff files.

This system works though and it's not too lumpy.
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Why not just use PP CS4 as the main editor?
 
medeamajic said:
Why not just use PP CS4 as the main editor?
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It's a very good question, but having migrated from PP a while ago to EDIUS, I find the interface and stablity awful. I don't think much has changed in that respect.

I do wonder if Edius will support it, it seems not in the next dot update. But maybe 6?
 
I switched form Edius to the CS4 Master Collection. I could not beat the integration the CS 4 Master Collection offered over Edius. I admit the CS4 master Collection is not for everyone.
 
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