Color Temperature confusion

[Bryce Lansing]

I shot a film last year on the RED MX, and I saw the editor's cut, the color and everything looks great. But I asked for the original .r3d files so I could put the shots in my own reel.

When I got home and started playing around with the footage, I got really confused. I lit with HMIs, and balanced the camera to 4500k, to give the key a slightly colder look. The proxies look fine:

Proxie:

But when I open up the raw file in Red Alert, this is what it looks like:

Then after messing with the color temp and tint, I got it to look right:

What I don't understand, is that I had to bring the color temp to 3200k (to get it to look how its supposed to look at 4500k), and a 5600k source at 3200k film stock would look a lot bluer than this. Also, where is the strong green tint coming from?

 

[Michael Ragen]

you need to use redcine x. redalert doesnt work with mx footy.

 

[Ben Brainerd]

Yep. RedAlert is outdated and depricated. Not sure why it's still on the download page. Regardless, it doesn't have the new Color Science updates, so anything shot on MX is going to look pretty funky, as you discovered.

 

[Shane Betts]

+1. Had a frantic call from the wrangler on a feature we're involved in at the moment. For some reason, despite our DIT cart having the latest RC-X in the Dock, he decided to use RedAlert - same results.

 

[Bryce Lansing]

Ok thanks! I tried it in RED Cine-X and everything is good. Is FCP/Apple Color outdated as well? I put a proxy in my FCP timeline and sent to color, and it looks exactly like it did when I opened in RED ALERT.

 

[Zakaree Sandberg]

curious what the source is suppose to be

 

[Ben Brainerd]

Ok thanks! I tried it in RED Cine-X and everything is good. Is FCP/Apple Color outdated as well? I put a proxy in my FCP timeline and sent to color, and it looks exactly like it did when I opened in RED ALERT.

Depends on what version of the plugin you're using. The current version *shouldn't* be having issues like that.

 

[Bryce Lansing]

Depends on what version of the plugin you're using. The current version *shouldn't* be having issues like that.

I'm still not sure if I even downloaded the right plugin.. Cuz not only is the color off, but I don't see any RED tabs, or ISO, FLUT, or color temp options anywhere.

 

[Jeff Kilgroe]

You need to download the latest QT / Final Cut Studio 3 installer package and that has most everything in it. Support for Apple Color is in there and instructions on how to get going. If you're still using old Final Cut Studio 2, you may run into some problems as I think the FCS2 RED Installer package is not as up to date. Not sure, haven't tried it in a long time.