Adding effects shots into the redcinex timeline to encode to .red

[Julius Jockusch]

Hey Everyone,

I'm working on a 4k project for playback on the redray. My client sent me a redray but conveniently forgot the manual that accompanies it. I've got the RRencoder plugin in redcine-x pro working and thanks to Phil I've gotten a test timeline playing back on the player as expected. With that said I have an end slate that was made in After Effects and need to know how to get that onto a redcine-x pro timeline so it can be exported to .RED along with the rest of the r3d footage. Is there a formate that redcine-x pro will work with outside of r3d or a way to encode to .RED outside of redcine-x pro?


Thanks,
~Julius

 

[Julius Jockusch]

So after some reading I found that you can do a tiff seq, but when I've tried to do it weird things happen. In redcine-x the timeline frame rate flips out if I add a tiff seq to it, it seems to happen regardless of what I set in the "still sequence editor". The only framerate I can use is 23.976 and get away with it. That said when converted to .red tiff seq's look bad, maybe unusable.

I'll keep on testing.

 

[Julius Jockusch]

So a DPX sequence works better then a tiff sequence for visual quality. The playback still needs to be 23.976 to work which can look a little jittery when coming form a 29.97 sequence, but it does seem to work. For now I've had a bit more success with high bit-rate h264 4k players that put out a stronger signal then the redray. I'll be interested to see what workflows pop up once the red-ray is more available.