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New Red Alert Batch processing?

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Peter McAuley

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Is there any provisions for batch processing clips directly in the new Red Alert?
 
Not in RA! itself, but there's REDline, the companion command line app, and tools in RA! that help you use it.

Nice to see you posting here Peter!

Graeme
 
Is redline currently enabled in the the new Red Alert. Seems to me I saw that it wasn't yet enabled. Congrats, I heard recently that you and Wendy have a new addition to the family. I've spent a lot of time trying to figure out a tapeless workflow using DPX and our inferno. We also just got Notch hooked up with a new Pablo and media engines from Quantel. It's all fun., just wish there was some documentation, I know a lot of post people feeling the pain from production whose only job is to shoot, now what.

Cheers
Peter
 
It's being worked on now.

Graeme
 
what is the ETA?
 
Is there any documentation on REDline? Is is a separate tool or is it implemented in RED Alert. Sorry, if this occurs as a stupid question... But I haven't stumbled into REDline so far.

Thanks,
Sebastian
 
Redline is the way

Redline is the way

Peter,

We use Redline (B15) for all of our transfers to Pablo and Inferno....by far the most efficient method. You can also generate H264 which is easily imported into Avid. The commands are easy to incorporate into scripts.

Have you got the Q Sam I/F? You should be able to process from redline directly to the Gene pool storage if so.

Cheers

Michael
 
Redline Documentation

Redline Documentation

Included in the redline download is all that you need to learn the command structure. There is a help file. You will need to learn how to write scripts tho.
 
c4camera said:
Included in the redline download is all that you need to learn the command structure. There is a help file. You will need to learn how to write scripts tho.
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Exactly WHERE is this help file located? I don't see one after installing REDAlert. Also, I don't see any separate "redline download" on the support site. It looks like it only comes bundled with REDAlert.

Thanks,
Paul
 
prosckes said:
Exactly WHERE is this help file located? I don't see one after installing REDAlert. Also, I don't see any separate "redline download" on the support site. It looks like it only comes bundled with REDAlert.

Thanks,
Paul
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open the terminal application and type redline in and hit enter....
 
Here is a link to the post I did about using Redline to batch convert all the .r3d files in a folder:
http://www.reduser.net/forum/showpost.php?p=218480&postcount=3

One thing I would change is the */*.R3D to */*001.R3D so it only looks at the first R3D file.


Just typing redline in your Terminal window will explain all the Redline settings.


Here are a couple other Redline scripts I have posted about.

Batch creating Proxy files:
http://www.reduser.net/forum/showpost.php?p=237605&postcount=3

Here is one where I show how to add the audio to your rendered files:
http://www.reduser.net/forum/showthread.php?t=14226



Here is a newer version that deletes the video only files after the audio and video are combined.

for FILE in $(find . -name *_001.R3D 2>&1 | awk -F "_001.R3D" '{print $1}'); do redline -i `echo $FILE"_001.R3D"` -w 11 --resizeX 1920 --resizeY 1080 --fit 2 --QTcodec 0 --useMeta -G 1 -D 100 --NR 100 -T 1.1 -C .5 -o $FILE"_VIDEO_ONLY.mov" ; echo "combining audio and video for $FILE" ; /usr/local/bin/muxmovie $FILE"_VIDEO_ONLY.mov" -track "Video Track" $FILE"_P.mov" -track "Sound Track" -track "Timecode Track 1" -track "Timecode Track 2" -self-contained -o $FILE"_AV.mov" ; echo "Cleaning up" ; rm -rf $FILE"_VIDEO_ONLY.mov" ; echo "Finished with $FILE" ; done

Here is the version where I was having it just make an Audio files for the Sound Guy.

for FILE in $(ls */*001.R3D | awk -F "_001.R3D" '{print $1}'); do /usr/local/bin/muxmovie $FILE"_P.mov" -track "Sound Track" -track "Timecode Track 1" -track "Timecode Track 2" -self-contained -o $FILE"_AUDIO.mov" ; echo "Finished with $FILE" ; done


Here is a new script I just wrote for some friends in Hawaii:

clear ; echo -n "Where are your R3D files located: " ; read -e R3DPATH ; echo " " ; echo -n "Where to render files: " ; read -e OUTPATH ; echo " " ; echo -n "put your Redline parameters here: " ; read -e REDLINE_PARAMETERS ; echo " " ; for FILE in $(find $R3DPATH -name *_001.R3D 2>&1) ; do NAME_PATH=`echo $FILE | awk -F "_001.R3D" '{print $1}'` ; NAME=`echo $NAME_PATH | awk -F\/ '{print $NF}' | awk -F. '{print $1}'` ; echo "rendering $NAME" ; redline -i `echo $NAME_PATH"_001.R3D"` $REDLINE_PARAMETERS -o $OUTPATH/$NAME"_VIDEO_ONLY.mov" ; echo " "; echo "combining audio and video for $NAME" ; /usr/local/bin/muxmovie $OUTPATH/$NAME"_VIDEO_ONLY.mov" -track "Video Track" $NAME_PATH"_P.mov" -track "Sound Track" -track "Timecode Track 1" -track "Timecode Track 2" -self-contained -o $OUTPATH/$NAME"_AV.mov" ; echo " " ; echo "Cleaning up $NAME" ; rm -rf $OUTPATH/$NAME"_VIDEO_ONLY.mov" ; echo " " ; echo "Finished with $FILE" ; echo " " ; done

You don't need to edit anything in this script.

This script batch renders via redline and then uses muxmovie to combine audio from you proxy with the video from the newly renderd file. This script would need to be modified if you don't need audio. The nice thing about this script is that you don't need to edit the script like the previous ones.


When you run it, it will ask where your R3D files are located. Type (or paste) in the directory path to the files you want to render. It will look in EVERY folder below this path. So if you tell it /Volumes it will find every R3D on your computer.

Next it will ask where you want your rendered files to be. Type (or paste) the directory path of where you want the render files to go. It will put all the files here.

Next it will ask what Redline parameters you want to use. Put anything you want except -o as that is already in there. So this should look something like

-w 11 --resizeX 1920 --resizeY 1080 --fit 2 --QTcodec 0 --useMeta -G 1 -D 100 --NR 100 -T 1.1 -C .5

Now it will render all your files.

Be careful with this script. The guys in Hawaii love it, but if you do not fill in the blanks and just hit return three times it will delete most of the files in your users home director.


This should be enough to get you started with using redline and batch rendering. Redline is a major part of my workflow. As soon as new footage gets in, we batch render everything to 1080p Prorez using redline. Then we edit the Prorez. For most project this is all they need.

I have created all of these so you just copy and paste them in Terminal. You could make these actual shell scripts, but I have been too lazy.

I have not modified these script to use a couple of the new features in the new Redline, but they work just fine with the new Redline anyway.

Let me know if you have any other questions about what these scripts are doing or modifying them to meet your specific needs.


Mahalo,
Dusty
 
Hi Dusty !

FCP/Crimson gives you a Redcine XML and Avid will put it out in a few weeks. So what if I wan't to make the render of that in redline? I prefer redline also. So I make with the used clips of the offline edit the onelight in Redalert, that the colorsettings should be there in the RSX files. Do you have an idea to make a script?

thx
rainer
 
Rainer,

I don't know of a way to get Redline to render Redcine color corrections. I think the best workflow is to batch render all your footage using Redline, then use Crimson to round trip your edit to Redcine and only render what you actually need in Redcine.

If Redcine starts creating .rsx files like Red Alert does, then you could tell the new Redline to use those settings.

If that happens I think Ian would modify Crimson to take advantage of it.


Mahalo,
Dusty
 
I mean following workflow:

I edit in fcp from the offline files. Then I export a XML. I use crimson to get the Redcine XML. I do the onelight of the used R3Ds in Redalert and get then a RSX file from each. Now you need a script which works down the RedcineXML and renders it in redline with the color settings of the RSX files...

do you got me ?

thx
rainer
 
rainer said:
I mean following workflow:

I edit in fcp from the offline files. Then I export a XML. I use crimson to get the Redcine XML. I do the onelight of the used R3Ds in Redalert and get then a RSX file from each. Now you need a script which works down the RedcineXML and renders it in redline with the color settings of the RSX files...

do you got me ?

thx
rainer
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you hate redcine, dont you? :)
 
:) I love redline, and I love Redalert, as since a few days I love Automator Actions also a lot.... can't tell you whats up if the SDK will be there....

greets to berlin...

P.S.: bin von 09. bis 13. Juli in der Stadt, mal berlin erkunden... :)

lg
rainer
 
Here is a new script I just wrote for some friends in Hawaii:

clear ; echo -n "Where are your R3D files located: " ; read -e R3DPATH ; echo " " ; echo -n "Where to render files: " ; read -e OUTPATH ; echo " " ; echo -n "put your Redline parameters here: " ; read -e REDLINE_PARAMETERS ; echo " " ; for FILE in $(find $R3DPATH -name *_001.R3D 2>&1) ; do NAME_PATH=`echo $FILE | awk -F "_001.R3D" '{print $1}'` ; NAME=`echo $NAME_PATH | awk -F\/ '{print $NF}' | awk -F. '{print $1}'` ; echo "rendering $NAME" ; redline -i `echo $NAME_PATH"_001.R3D"` $REDLINE_PARAMETERS -o $OUTPATH/$NAME"_VIDEO_ONLY.mov" ; echo " "; echo "combining audio and video for $NAME" ; /usr/local/bin/muxmovie $OUTPATH/$NAME"_VIDEO_ONLY.mov" -track "Video Track" $NAME_PATH"_P.mov" -track "Sound Track" -track "Timecode Track 1" -track "Timecode Track 2" -self-contained -o $OUTPATH/$NAME"_AV.mov" ; echo " " ; echo "Cleaning up $NAME" ; rm -rf $OUTPATH/$NAME"_VIDEO_ONLY.mov" ; echo " " ; echo "Finished with $FILE" ; echo " " ; done

Thanks for this script, it is great, the only thing is when I render my prores files it limits all their durations to 1min 05secs. Do you have any idea why this is happening. thanks
 
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