Apple Color Geometry Room

[BoomDown]

I am grading a project in color with the workflow described in the new FCS 3 workflow white paper - transcode to ProRes, re-conform using native log and transfer. Assuming that the clips, when re-conformed in FCP, are pulling from the 4K R3D files... my question is... When changing the scale from 2.00000 to 1.00000 in the geometry room am I effectively zooming into the 4K file and not the 2K size? Essentially picking a part of the 4K file to output in 2K with no loss in quality due to "blowing up" the image? Basically I want to reframe a shot that was a little too wide and have as little degradation in image quality as possible.

Hope this makes sense. I'm a bit of a newbie to the red workflow.

Thanks in advance,
Beau

 

[Chris Kenny]

My understanding is yes, at least if you're using full-resolution rendering proxies. The reason that scaling factor is 2.0 rather than 1.0 in the first place is because it's scaling a 4K image to 2K.

 

[Timo Teravainen]

Yes, in Color 1.5 in the geometry room you can make good quality reframings from the 4K information. To me the quality looks identical compared to scaling in Redcine from 4K file.

 

[BoomDown]

Excellent. That's what I was hoping. Thanks for your help.