Pro res? Where is it?

[Doug M]

First post here, very exited! Our new Scarlet (still thinking of a name) is recording great images, and I don't want to lose the quality of the image in post production.

I am hearing a lot about the Apple Pro res codec and this seems to be the best way to transcode from RCX for editing in FCP (which is what we are using). However I can't seem to find the pro res codec in RCX pro.

Do I have to download or buy pro res?

If not, why can't I find it?

There is probably a simple answer to this, and I am new to post production and don't know much at all about transcoding and compression, so im sorry if this seems like a silly question.

[Paul Leeming]

Go into the Export tab, choose Quicktime as your codec option, then Setup to choose the appropriate flavour of ProRes. ProRes should be installed on all Macs if I'm not mistaken (I'm PC based actually, using Adobe Premiere Pro to edit R3D data - no transcoding required, PC or Mac).

HTH!

Cheers from Tokyo,

Paul :)

[Doug M]

Go into the Export tab, choose Quicktime as your codec option, then Setup to choose the appropriate flavour of ProRes. ProRes should be installed on all Macs if I'm not mistaken (I'm PC based actually, using Adobe Premiere Pro to edit R3D data - no transcoding required, PC or Mac).

Thanks Paul, but I still can't find ProRes 'flavours'. When in the quicktime setup window I am only given these options;

Animation
Apple intermediate codec
Apple pixlet video
DV-PAL
DV/DVCPRO-NTSC
DVCPRO-PAL
DVCPRO50-PAL
DVCPRO50-NTSC
H.264
M-PEG-4 Video
None
Photo- Jpeg
PNG
Video

Is this where I will find the Pro Res or am i looking in the wrong place?

[Nick Noev]

well, you have to have the codec installed on your system to be able to see it in the export options.

[Doug M]

Thanks Nick and John, the pro res looks great! big files though, 1.1GB for just a few seconds, 4K, REDCODE 8:1. Is this normal?

[Tim Morten]

First post here, very exited! Our new Scarlet (still thinking of a name) is recording great images, and I don't want to lose the quality of the image in post production.

I am hearing a lot about the Apple Pro res codec and this seems to be the best way to transcode from RCX for editing in FCP (which is what we are using). However I can't seem to find the pro res codec in RCX pro.

Do I have to download or buy pro res?

If not, why can't I find it?

There is probably a simple answer to this, and I am new to post production and don't know much at all about transcoding and compression, so im sorry if this seems like a silly question.

Congrats on your new Scarlet!

Based on your earlier comment "I don't want to lose the quality of the image in post production", ProRes is not your best choice. Keep your footage in raw form (R3D) as long as possible. I'd _highly_ recommend using an editing package with native R3D support like MediaComposer, Premiere, Vegas, etc.

Cheers,
Tim

[Scott Crawley]

Congrats on your new Scarlet!

Based on your earlier comment "I don't want to lose the quality of the image in post production", ProRes is not your best choice. Keep your footage in raw form (R3D) as long as possible. I'd _highly_ recommend using an editing package with native R3D support like MediaComposer, Premiere, Vegas, etc.

Cheers,
Tim

On the other hand, there is no reason why you can't do an offline edit in just about ANY codec and conform to the R3D after editorial is done and build your final deliverables directly from the R3D. That is still the most common method as far as I know.

[Doug M]

On the other hand, there is no reason why you can't do an offline edit in just about ANY codec and conform to the R3D after editorial is done and build your final deliverables directly from the R3D. That is still the most common method as far as I know.

I've seen many posts about this on other threads, Does this mean I can edit an entire project on FCP of compressed files, and then link the R3D's into FCP prior to exporting from FCP?

[Bob Gundu]

If quality is your concern, then edit in FCP using proxies (or whatever you want) that were generated from the source R3D using RedcinePro. After finishing the edit in FCP, export XML file to Redcine to do first pass grade. Then export Uncompressed (if you have the space, otherwise ProRes HQ or similar) and do final grade something like Resolve or Color (if you still use it).

I've seen many posts about this on other threads, Does this mean I can edit an entire project on FCP of compressed files, and then link the R3D's into FCP prior to exporting from FCP?

[Doug M]

If quality is your concern, then edit in FCP using proxies (or whatever you want) that were generated from the source R3D using RedcinePro. After finishing the edit in FCP, export XML file to Redcine to do first pass grade. Then export Uncompressed (if you have the space, otherwise ProRes HQ or similar) and do final grade something like Resolve or Color (if you still use it).

Thanks Bob, but could you please explain what proxies are and how I'd transfer them from the R3D's to FCP, and also, what will be involved when doing the 'pass grade' with the XML's, will this be the whole edited project from FCP as one XML file?