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  • Hey all, just changed over the backend after 15 years I figured time to give it a bit of an update, its probably gonna be a bit weird for most of you and i am sure there is a few bugs to work out but it should kinda work the same as before... hopefully :)

Crimson Workflow is available for download.

Ok - I'll try that.

Is it possible to go back into FCP before color? I'm a big fan of the FCP/Shake combo for compositing and adding other effects, and would like to be able to utilize that with DPX's...

Thanks,

Ross
 
rossbirkbeck said:
Ok - I'll try that.

Is it possible to go back into FCP before color? I'm a big fan of the FCP/Shake combo for compositing and adding other effects, and would like to be able to utilize that with DPX's...

Thanks,

Ross
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The issue is getting the right timecode through Shake, GlueTools, etc. It's something we are working on tackling in our new software. But the original Crimson wasn't built for that really. In general when working with DPX files I'm finding EDL workflows are extremely helpful as long as you can preserve the timecode in the DPX headers.

IBloom
 
I was trying the Demo and I experienced a problem
as soon as I try to match xml with r3d in Match section of the software I get an "unexpected error has occurred" (UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u' u0301' in position 67: ordinal not in range (128) )

after that the match button work all the video and xml are matched then when I go to redcine and click on export Redcine XML I have this same error and nothing happens anymore the software stop

Thank you for your support
 
ok I found something really strange which could help you
I fixed the problem by renaming the Default name "Sequence 1" XML into something else and after that it worked !
Now Crimson does not show this error ...
HOWEVER ...
I got the same kind of error when I tried to generate roundtrip XML I got this error
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u' xe9' in position 1: ordinal not in range (128) )

need help for this, I wanted to know if it can be fixed, I'm really interested by your software but I'm stucked with the demo version for now ...
cheers

Here is more info for you (here is the traceback from the console) this traceback is written as soon as I click on generate Roundtrip XML
02/05/09 13:33:46 [0x0-0x125125].com.Crimson.Workflow[1873] File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/Extras/lib/python/PyObjCTools/AppHelper.py", line 237,
in runEventLoop

02/05/09 13:33:46 [0x0-0x125125].com.Crimson.Workflow[1873] File "/Users/ian_m_bloom/Documents/Crimson 0.9.4.5/Crimson/build/Release/Crimson.app/Contents/Resources/CrimsonAppDelegate.py", line 841, in roundtrip_

02/05/09 13:33:46 [0x0-0x125125].com.Crimson.Workflow[1873] File "/Users/ian_m_bloom/Documents/Crimson 0.9.4.5/Crimson/build/Release/Crimson.app/Contents/Resources/CrimsonProject.py", line 2196, in export

02/05/09 13:33:46 [0x0-0x125125].com.Crimson.Workflow[1873] File "/Users/ian_m_bloom/Documents/Crimson 0.9.4.5/Crimson/build/Release/Crimson.app/Contents/Resources/CrimsonProject.py", line 2151, in affectElement

02/05/09 13:33:46 [0x0-0x125125].com.Crimson.Workflow[1873] File "/Users/ian_m_bloom/Documents/Crimson 0.9.4.5/Crimson/build/Release/Crimson.app/Contents/Resources/CrimsonProject.py", line 308, in setOneAttribute

02/05/09 13:33:46 [0x0-0x125125].com.Crimson.Workflow[1873] UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xe9' in position 1: ordinal not in range(128)
 
I recently getting troubles working this Crimson.
I have OSX 10.5.7 Leo, Final Cut 6.0.5 and Crimson 9.45 Rip Tide, QuickTime 7.6 (472), Red Alert 3.6.0

My work flow is to get R3D files converted to DPX to grade them in Lustre.
Every time a try to render with Crimson I got a folder full of DPX files, but ALL of them are the very first frame of R3D file.
Same thin is rendering to MOv, complete length movie and each frame is the same - the very first.
I tried different color settings, size settings, outputting to different HDD, every time I get the same issue.
I DON'T have to problems rendering with REDALERT, and ClipFinder, but bought Crimson gives me a headache

Is this kinda bug for 10.5.7?

Please, help
 
Is Crimson still being supported? Seems the last I heard is the Snow Leopard issue was being worked on, and that was back in September. I'm also getting 'critical errors' when trying to roundtrip now, eventhough everything is set correctly.
 
Kyle Stauffer said:
Is Crimson still being supported? Seems the last I heard is the Snow Leopard issue was being worked on, and that was back in September. I'm also getting 'critical errors' when trying to roundtrip now, eventhough everything is set correctly.
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I'm upgrading the new build "Belgrade" tonight. Just wanted to wait until some users had time to actually test it.

Ian
 
Belgrade is up there now.

Please be clear in understanding I work on Crimson perhaps 12 hours a day. The best way to get your problems solved is to email me.

Cheers,
Ian
 
I Bloom said:
Belgrade is up there now.

Please be clear in understanding I work on Crimson perhaps 12 hours a day. The best way to get your problems solved is to email me.

Cheers,
Ian
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Hey Ian,

I am one of your early customers and supporters. If you are able to share anything on what you are specificly working on please do. Just curious.

Best wishes,

Calle
 
Ian,

I posted this on the thread "Newer Redcine-X is posted" but received no response from the Red Team. Maybe you're the best person to ask this of.

It appears that importing intermediate alias files is not compatible with Redcine-X... which means that using Crimson Workflow to facilitate transcoding cutdown selects is disabled. This is a setback for our workflow. Is there forthcoming support for this?
 
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