Working with RED footage on Windows - Help needed!

[justicia]

Hi guys,

I'm having problems getting RED footage to work on Windows. Appreciate all the help I can get from you guys.

Firstly, on a Mac, the colours look perfectly fine; but when my editor exported the footage to Quicktime, the colours became over-exposed and got all weird when I opened the .mov files in Windows.

So now I'm using REDCINE-X to colour correct the RED footage. The colour correction works, but I have another problem - I can't export the colour-corrected footage to Quicktime, so that I can use the .mov files in Adobe Aftereffects. I keep getting an error after setting the footage to export. I've tried a few different compression settings, I even tried "None", nothing works.

Is there any way I can get the RED footage to work properly on Windows without going through REDCINE-X?

Thanks in advance!

 

[MichaelP]

What codec within QuickTime are you using? QuickTime is only a wrapper to a codec. If ProRes, that is not possible since Apple doesn't have an encoder for ProRes on Windows.

Michael

 

[Stefan Scherperel]

Which version of AE are you using. If you are using CS5 you can import the R3D files directly into AE. You can even do your color grading in RedcineX and have that correction work within AE.

 

[Sam Roberts]

What do I need to do when a Director wants to screen the proxies on a Windows Vista laptop? I looked for a Windows Quicktime Codec on RED support but didn't see one.

 

[MichaelP]

There is no R3D QuickTime component for Windows.

Michael

 

[Sam Roberts]

How do people who edit with Adobe Premiere on a windows machine do it?

 

[Paul Steinberg]

Adobe Premiere CS5 uses the R3D files, not the proxies. You could load RedCine-X onto the directors laptop and he could view the R3D files.