D'Arcy Foley-Dawson
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this is a very simple and straightforward issue and i'm sure it's been dealt with here before, and i did do a search but as i'm sure you can appreciate it can be hard to find exactly what you're looking for in a popular sub-forum such as this one. so please forgive me if there is already a well-known solution for this problem and point me in the right direction!
OK, so here's the deal:
4K 4096x2304 16:9 RED clips, i am fairly sure they are REDcode-28 as opposed to 36; as for the build i don't know but they were shot on the 6th june this year. most of them were shot at 36fps, a handful at 50 and 25. being in PAL land they will be finished at 25.00fps.
whenever i try to SEND TO Color a sequence of H quality proxies, Color won't reproduce the sequence properly. the problems are:
1) all the clips in the Color sequence start at their very first frame, ie. the very first frame of the actual R3D file, and continue for the duration of the clip as it was edited in FCP (then the next clip starts at it's first frame, then the next, etc.) in other words, most of the clips in the Color sequence are just shots of the slate!!
2) despite any changes i make to the rsx file with red alert! Color will not recognise these changes. we shot to deliver the finished video in black and white, so the metadata on set was recorded with a saturation of 0.00, but i want to have a play around with the colour values as recorded on the day BEFORE desaturating them, ie. adjust colour values in the Primary In tab and then desaturate everything in the Primary Out tab.
FCP will display the correct metadata based on any changes i make in red alert!, ie. the clips will show up in full colour in FCP. but when i send the very same clips to Color, they appear desaturated again, ie. reverting back to the original recorded metadata.
can anyone please shed some light on this? i'm running FCP 7.0.1 and Color 1.5.1, on an iMac with 3.06 dual core, 4gb ram, nvidia geforce 8800 gs.
i should also point out that this is not an urgent problem because this project (music video) was finished and delivered months ago, i have my own workflow of rendering out extremely high bitrate clips from RED via redcine and then grading them in photoshop; but i've been playing around with Color recently and wanted to have a go at grading RED with it now that it can access the R3D data.
i know most people find it very easy sending proxies from fcp to color so i guess these problems i've having are the exception to the rule....?
OK, so here's the deal:
4K 4096x2304 16:9 RED clips, i am fairly sure they are REDcode-28 as opposed to 36; as for the build i don't know but they were shot on the 6th june this year. most of them were shot at 36fps, a handful at 50 and 25. being in PAL land they will be finished at 25.00fps.
whenever i try to SEND TO Color a sequence of H quality proxies, Color won't reproduce the sequence properly. the problems are:
1) all the clips in the Color sequence start at their very first frame, ie. the very first frame of the actual R3D file, and continue for the duration of the clip as it was edited in FCP (then the next clip starts at it's first frame, then the next, etc.) in other words, most of the clips in the Color sequence are just shots of the slate!!
2) despite any changes i make to the rsx file with red alert! Color will not recognise these changes. we shot to deliver the finished video in black and white, so the metadata on set was recorded with a saturation of 0.00, but i want to have a play around with the colour values as recorded on the day BEFORE desaturating them, ie. adjust colour values in the Primary In tab and then desaturate everything in the Primary Out tab.
FCP will display the correct metadata based on any changes i make in red alert!, ie. the clips will show up in full colour in FCP. but when i send the very same clips to Color, they appear desaturated again, ie. reverting back to the original recorded metadata.
can anyone please shed some light on this? i'm running FCP 7.0.1 and Color 1.5.1, on an iMac with 3.06 dual core, 4gb ram, nvidia geforce 8800 gs.
i should also point out that this is not an urgent problem because this project (music video) was finished and delivered months ago, i have my own workflow of rendering out extremely high bitrate clips from RED via redcine and then grading them in photoshop; but i've been playing around with Color recently and wanted to have a go at grading RED with it now that it can access the R3D data.
i know most people find it very easy sending proxies from fcp to color so i guess these problems i've having are the exception to the rule....?