ARRI ALEXA in-camera recording using AVID’s DNxHD MXF file format

[Oliver Koeppel]

Arri offers an update on ALEXA. Directly recording on DDxHD up to 440mBit.
As much I like Red and their rawworkflow, I would like to get the opportunity to decide which format I will need. A module on Epic/Scarlet which records parallel to R3D, DNxHD and/or ProRes would be very helpful imho.
I know, it has been dicussed several times. I know, there is additional hardware to get those codecs. But I would prefer a red built-in solution...

http://www.arri.com/press/press_engl...html?tx_ttnews[tt_news]=880&tx_ttnews[backPid]=1781&cHash=bae70849d5

[Gary Stone]

I believe the upcoming "Proxy Module" for Epic/Scarlet will do just that.

[Gunleik Groven]

I believe the upcoming "Proxy Module" for Epic/Scarlet will do just that.

The judge (that's Jim) have been out on that for a while...
He is a knight of 4k, and I think he fears epic shoots being onlined at prores 422. Thus the procy module was meant to be h264 for dailies.

That said, I and many more have been lobbying for that module to be prores/DNx for offlines.

And the judge and the Jury is out...

:)

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[Gary Stone]

That would be consistent with RED's decision to not do anything prosumer. Sounds like 3rd party is the way to go.

[Francesco Bonomo]

That would be consistent with RED's decision to not do anything prosumer. Sounds like 3rd party is the way to go.

Since when Avid is considered prosumer?

[Craig Weeding]

I am so happy that the REDs shoot 444 Raw, that is what Digital Cinema is abou,t 422 is just Video, Once you go 444 Raw there is not going back.

[Jason Diamond]

With gear like the pix240 and the kipro mini and a ton more coming I'm not sure it behooves RED to make their own proxy recorder (module) but rather make as much metadata avail to those 3rd part devices as possible thru HANC data, etc over HDSDI.

its all possible now, everyone get shooting

[Oliver Koeppel]

I am so happy that the REDs shoot 444 Raw, that is what Digital Cinema is abou,t 422 is just Video, Once you go 444 Raw there is not going back.

I totally agree. As I wrote before I absolutely love raw! But there are some situation, where I need fast and "HD is good enough" solutions

[Gunleik Groven]

Thing in my case is that it would be great to have offlines directly without transcoding...

Don't say Premiere... I work with shows with 100-200 shootingdays. Offlne/Online is really quite rational in those contexts...

I think we have made the KiProMini stable now... BTW

[andrewhake]

Why everyone assumes this would just be used as the shoot to finish format I am not sure. It would be fantastic to have some sort of module that automatically creates lower res edit proxies for your editing tool of choice, you know, for editing. It is simply a question of time/workflow, has nothing to do with sacrificing image quality and image flexibility, it is very simple to reconnect to your original R3D's and happily grade away.