cutting R3D files without reencoding?

[jorge krausch]

Anything out there to cut down some r3d clips without reencoding?

Like avidemux or smartcutter?
Or perhaps a cs6 setting to do so?

 

[Nick Morrison]

Doesnt Premiere cut with R3Ds natively? And FCX?

 

[jorge krausch]

yes but then when you exsport you re-encode...even if you exported in r3d (copy of a copy/ generation loss)

i need somethin to split and rejoin r3d video files without reencoding.. (fast and same video file not recompressed)

 

[Alvise Tedesco]

Cut in fcp or whatever. Generate xml. Open xml in RCX and export timeline (separate clips) as r3d trim.

 

[jake blackstone]

Doesnt Premiere cut with R3Ds natively? And FCX?

Nick.
You know better, than ask this question, especially after I showed you how to do it
Only two programs do what OP is asking for:
RCX and Resolve.

 

[jorge krausch]

Thanks so much!! Ill try it this afternoon

 

[Mike P.]

They can trim, but they can't merge two or more .r3ds into one .r3d can they?

 

[Robert Ruffo New]

No, they cannot merge - this would require recompressing at the cut, since R3D depends on motion following to do its compression magic. they will give you trimmed files accompanied by an XML that points to them correctly - why would you need a merged file?

 

[Mike P.]

I dunno, I thought that's what the OP was asking for (post #3).

 

[Stefan Scherperel]

Is the OP asking if it's possible to merge multiple R3D files together so that you have an basic edit consisting of a single R3D file? I don't think that is possible to do. In RCX and Resolve you can trim R3D files down to smaller R3D files, but there is no software out there to Spit out an R3D file of combined clips, much like a finishing format. R3D is not a finishing codec, it is a shooting codec.

 

[Les Dittert]

No, they cannot merge - this would require recompressing at the cut, since R3D depends on motion following to do its compression magic. they will give you trimmed files accompanied by an XML that points to them correctly - why would you need a merged file?

R3d ( J2K ) is an intraframe codec. It does not depend on motion from frame to frame.