Help with RedCine output to Premiere CS3

[scott@ruccipro.com]

Hi, I'm renting a Red (hope to buy someday) for a project in 2 weeks. I'm on a PC using Premiere CS3 and Matrox Axio. I plan to upgrade my system to 64 bit/CS4 with the Red plugin when all that is available, but I won't have that ready for this project.

So I'm just trying to shoot 3k 30fps (for smoother motion, thought I could do 24p if that helps a lot) on a RedOne and output as Targa or QT or whatever and then rerender that in Premiere into the native Matrox uncompressed 1080p 10bit .avi format.

So far my tests have yeilded a little bit of jitter in the final movie. There are so many variables in camera frame and shutter rate and output settings. I'm wondering if anyone has done what I want to do and can recommend camera and RedCine output settings to result in a good 1080p PC movie.

Thanks for any help offered.

 

[Stefan Scherperel]

Scott, the plugin has been delayed further and is not available yet. Red Cine is not the plugin but a separate application. Please see this thread for further details.
http://www.reduser.net/forum/showthread.php?t=21101

 

[scott@ruccipro.com]

In the meantime...

In the meantime...

Thanks for that Stefan. I know I can't use the plugin yet, but it seems there is a way to do it now.

I have RedCine installed. I can open the footage and export it in several different formats. Many of these formats open and play in Premiere and After Effects CS3. So that is a workflow that gets me the footage.

But I've been having problems, primarily that there appears to be a a little vibration in the footage even when the camera is not moving. This is after converting it to a real time playable avi. So I'm wondering what settings to use to export from RedCine that will show motion correctly in Premiere/After Effects.

Also, the footage looks noisy when first opened in RedCine. I've set the project to display full res. High.

 

[Stefan Scherperel]

For right now I have been exporting my footage from Red Cine as quicktime in either motion jpeg A or RAW depending on what I plan to do with the footage. Make sure that your project settings match your output settings. I have not exported to an avi from red Cine, didn't know that was a possibility.

 

[scott@ruccipro.com]

Thanks, I'll play around with it. No, you can't export to avi, I'm doing that conversion in CS3. I've tried QT, targa and TIFF sequences, but I must have some setting wrong.

 

[scott@ruccipro.com]

I think I've got this worked out. I've gotten rid of most of the problems and hope to get rid of the rest with another test. I'm not sure what I had RedCine output set to before, but it looks a lot better now. Still seeing some noise, but I'm confident I'm on my way to working the kinks out.

 

[Stefan Scherperel]

As long as you have Quicktime installed, which you must have if you can export in jpeg A and Raw, you should be able to bring it in premiere. Can you view the files in just the quicktime player?