4.5K/Quad HD to 2K workflow

[AdamPalmer]

Hello,

I'm a bit stumped with REDCINE-X, as this is my first RED edit. We shot 4.5k and Quad HD, but I edited the R3D files natively within Premiere Pro CS6 on a 4.5k sequence, so naturally the Quad HD files don't match in the sequence in terms of frame size. Now, I want to convert both instances of footage to 2K, so I have a 2K edit, which I can export to HD 1080p, but as I said, I can't fathom out how to do this via REDCINE-X. Instead, I've created a 2K 2.35:1 (2048x872) sequence in Premiere Pro, copied over my original sequence and then scaled and adjusted the positions of the individual clips so that they look correct within the sequence.

Firstly, IS THIS OKAY!? A huge part of me tells me this is more than wrong and I'm doing it incorrectly, so could anyone shed some light on how I could do it correctly?

I apologise in advance for the extremely amateurish approach to this, but I'm a Director, not an editor (but we don't have an editor, hence me filling in)

 

[Gabe Conroy]

That's alright, although if you're downscaling from 2048x872 to 1920x1080 to end up with a letterboxed image, you may be better off using a 4096x1744 sequence so it's not doing an awkward 2048->1920 downscale. If you're just cropping from 2048 to 1920 that doesn't really matter though.

 

[AdamPalmer]

That's alright, although if you're downscaling from 2048x872 to 1920x1080 to end up with a letterboxed image, you may be better off using a 4096x1744 sequence so it's not doing an awkward 2048->1920 downscale. If you're just cropping from 2048 to 1920 that doesn't really matter though.

First off, thanks for the reply!

Going on from your sequence size recommendations, the 4096x1744 sequence would be fine for my 4.5k files, but not for my Quad HD, as they're at 3840x2160, so I'd be increasing their size before downscaling to 2K?

I'm in an 2048x872 sequence at the moment and both sets of footage are framing up nicely though.

 

[Gabe Conroy]

First off, thanks for the reply!

Going on from your sequence size recommendations, the 4096x1744 sequence would be fine for my 4.5k files, but not for my Quad HD, as they're at 3840x2160, so I'd be increasing their size before downscaling to 2K?

I'm in an 2048x872 sequence at the moment and both sets of footage are framing up nicely though.

Oh right, yeah you would do a 3840x1635 sequence then. If you start off setting all your footage to scale to frame size before changing the scale then you can copy your clips to sequences with different resolutions and retain the same relative framing.