Do you have any spare Red footage?

[Joe Laude]

Hi everyone! First post here. I've been reading around the boards and elsewhere, but there are a few questions I can't quite seem to find answers to. Just a bit about me, I've never worked with Red cam footage, but I have quite a bit of experience with P2 workflows. See, I'm assisting an editor whose next project he's bringing me on for was shot with the Red, and he's fairly new to it himself. I'd like to have an idea of what we'll encounter so I can help make this go smoothly.

I have a ton of questions about the Red workflow, but to keep this from becoming an insanely long post, I'll just ask straight out if anyone has a clip or two straight from a Red cam--some test footage they shot or something--that I might be able to play around with to try this out firsthand? The editor is understandably keeping the hard drives with the footage in his possession for now. This means I don't have a way of really getting my hands dirty right now, but I'd very much like to before we begin.

Thank you!

(edit: I probably should have specified that I am working on Final Cut, and perhaps should have posted in the Apple workflow forum. My mistake)

 

[Steve Tammi]

Check out http://www.redrelay.net

Best,

Steve

 

[Joe Laude]

Thanks Steve! This is exactly what I was looking for.

 

[Christoffer Glans]

I have a similar request... I'm about to edit a feature film and I would like to know if the reference files are standalone QT's or if they need the r3d file to work...? I seem to remember downloading a demo that had the kind of name they usually do and I would like to download one of those to see if the workflow on location would go smoother with them...

 

[Steve Freebairn]

The quicktimes need the r3d to work. You could create your own proxies by doing log and transfer in FCP, or in compressor or redrushes if you wanted. Then you wouldn't need the R3d files for editing an offline.

 

[Christoffer Glans]

I'm working with PC and Avid, that's why I'm wondering, because my idea was to let the cameracrew unload the CF cards and then I get a small SD resolution clip that I can edit fast on set. Isn't the camera generating small stand alone files?

If so, is the timecode "in" these so that if necessary, we can use the on location cut and do a rough 4K online if we want?