Recent content by James Page

Hey folks, considering buying a Mac Studio, and looking for the opinions and experiences of people with real world experience of cutting RED footage. Thanks!

Is there a recommended build specification for being able to playback 5K RED and ProRes in realtime in Premiere, Avid or Resolve? My old mac pro is well past it now and i'm looking to buy my first PC in 20 years, but i'm behind the curve!

Hey I've cut natively with R3Ds in Premiere and now i'm ready to pass on certain shots to the VFX artists. I've been asked to provide DPX Sequences, which is fine, however i want to maintain the most neutral and maximum latitude throughout the pipeline, ready for grading at the other end. How...

Is it possible to buy/build a system that will play 4K full res in real time, without buying a Red Rocket?

Hi i have a Mac and want a simple Audio mixer to go with my M-Audio AV40 speakers. Outputs on Mac USB3, thunderbolt, optical digital audio output/analog line out mini-jack Inputs on Speakers: L+R RCA line in, and 1/4" TRS inputs. Not looking for anything fancy, just something i can connect two...

Hi I'm a video editor, and I'm looking at upgrading my storage from the internal drives i use in my Mac Pro 2010. Part of this equation is whether i buy a new iMac and get a thunderbolt RAID, or whether a similar setup is available through my existing Mac Pro (via MiniSAS) I require...

We'll be shooting a short film in one day on the Red Epic. As the Editor of the film I'd like any advice people can offer me to make sure the workflow both on set and in post is as strong as possible. I intend cutting the film in Avid MC5.5, and would be grateful for any whitepapers or links to...

Hi Folks, I'm about to shoot a short film on RED and we want the final aspect ratio to be 2.35:1. Post will be in FCP, and we're a little unsure of the best workflow. As I understand it, there are limitations for frame size in FCP, and so we're unsure of whether we should shoot 2.35:1 natively...

Hi Folks, I've taken on a project where the audio has been recorded separately to the picture, but the picture has no guide track embedded. Ordinarily I would cut the film, and then go back in and sync only the takes i use, but in this case I have to sync all the takes before i edit. My...

Hi Can you folks advise me on how best to calibrate my monitors to produce as accurate colours as possible? Thanks Jim

Hi I want to buy 2 monitors for my new Mac Pro setup, and since i'll be working with HD and RED footage a lot, I want to make sure i get a fairly colour accurate setup (though it doesn't have to be up to full grading suite standards) Budget is an issue, I can spend between £200 and £300 on...

Hey I'm about to buy a second hand Mac Pro, specifically to edit HD+ RED Video. This is the spec of the machine I'm looking at. Can you advise me on what else I might want/need, and why? INTEL XEON MAC PRO 3,1 (early 2008) (8CORE) 2 X QUAD CORE 3.2GHZ HARPERTOWN CPU 256MB ATI 2600XT VIDEO...

Ok folks, I'm really really getting tired of this now. I've posted a couple of times about the issues I'm having viewing and exporting ProRes files from FCP. these threads are here: http://reduser.net/forum/showthread.php?t=51186 http://reduser.net/forum/showthread.php?t=44298 The kind...

I've transcoded RED footage to 1080p ProRes 422 HQ files, full debayer. In Finder and it plays back perfectly. In FCP there is severe banding. Instead of a smooth lattitude everything looks like its been lightly compressed, with bands and sections of colours. I am trying to grade (using...

Hi, When i compress my 1080p ProRes422HQ/4444 file to MPEG2, using compressor, any tracking or panning shots have a noticeable stutter in them. I've tried CBR, VBR, multi-passes and single-passes, and decreasing/increasing the data rate, to no avail. Any ideas? Thanks Jim