Proxy Module...

[Raphael Varandas]

Holly jesusssss!!!
See you in a couple days
thank you again

[Jens Jakob Thorsen]

ProRes and H264 module will sell, a h264 module only is just weird and obsolete;-)

[Travis Freeburg]

ProRes and H264 module will sell, a h264 module only is just weird and obsolete;-)

What if this module was plugged into a scarlet, not an epic... would that change your thinking at all?

[Subhadip Sen]

ProRes and H264 module will sell, a h264 module only is just weird and obsolete;-)

H.264 is a standard, not a codec. I think you are seriously underestimating the scope for a stellar capture/intermediate H.264 codec. It has every capability of producing ProRes quality at a fraction the file size.

[Tim Whitcomb]

tim, a rocket is not only for dailies and offline files, imho its main advantage is to be able to grade in full debayer while the GPU can take care about the layers.

a prores module would make perfect sense...its a pretty smart move from arri with prores and pretty smart from aaton with DNxHD.

the proxy module is perfect for viewing purposes with h.264.
if you can have a prores module it doesnt kill the rocket...the rocket is for grading
(i see the prores module simply as instant-offline-datamaker-your editor smiles-module....the proxy module is the your director smiles like balu the bear while watching dailies on his ipad in the hotelroom, or having a ultralight wifi watchman, all watchmen i used suck pretty much in one or another way-----both are damn cool for the......and also a REDproxyapp would be great, which can record the wifi signal to the ipads storage....again no copying needed, .....erase a step when you can)



i even go further....let the prores module be able to get a (wifi) audio signal and sync in camera.
and let the prores module letterbox the files to the aspect ratio you did shoot and the settings you did choose on camera
put your prores files on the mac, and the raw files can be stored on your online station.

you know, the editors like to edit, they edit footage coming from various cameras (ergo, mostly no rocket in the NLE station)....the more people involved get the feeling with this camera system you can concentrate on the creative parts and not on the dull workflow parts, the more they like a system and use it.

a director pretty much gets bored, if you explain him a workflow...if you can erase steps, erase them.




NOTE: I personnaly wish an All In One system.....load r3d`s, sync bwf files, edit online, grade in the same timeline
pretty much a rocket enabled smoke in a way....no waiting no xml, edl etc. one for all.

BUT thats me, and there are people who want their editor to be happy, because their editors are highly creative, same goes for their colorists, happy=more creative

horses for courses. i find most exceptional offline editors (storytellers) are not DI artists - and vice versa find DI artists who are not much for telling strories, but utterly fantastic at polishing them. all about the talent.

We prefer to record RAW and process in post. Module gives you news speed. RR gives you minuties in a CF workflow. Fast enough for most of our productions.

like I said, we all have our own uses and needs. horses for courses.

I think its wonderful to have all these choices.

[Kaku Ito]

i suppose RED already has resources to edit H.264 without problems on some editing platforms.

[Ido Karilla]

i suppose RED already has resources to edit H.264 without problems on some editing platforms.

Educated guess? Let me think? FCP?

[Deanan]

i suppose RED already has resources to edit H.264 without problems on some editing platforms.

Native R3D support is also growing rapidly in alot of apps.
There'll be some very cool announcements at NAB.

However, h.264 support (and other codecs in the works also) will open up alot flexibility for a variety of devices and workflows.

[Eric Cameron]

Do those "cool announcements" have anything to do with the fact that epic.red.com says that FCP has native R3D support? Or is that simply a loose interpretation of the fact that Color works off of the raw?

[Andrew Ravani]

I have been hoping RED would go this way for some time - I was looking into how to make the NanoFlash do basically the same thing. It would be wonderful to get at the edit on set for some projects (and NOT news... some client projects just require a kind of speed that means taking advantage of every moment in a parallel fashion v/s a serial one).

Having a client approved rough edit before the day is done means having more time to get the image just right - using a RR or "old fashioned" CPU workflow.

Dear RED elves - I find your ever increasing product offerings to be quite sexy. I look forward to my Epic-X and this nifty little add on. Should be quite a treat to work with.