HELP I'm new.

[zack zhou]

hey RED guys,

i just wrapped up a shoot on RED, and i know this sounds really noob, but can someone guide me through the transferring of footage from harddrive to FCP.

I tried to Log and transfer the RED files on final cut, but it taking an incredible slow speed. appox 1 hour for 4 mins long footage. is there something i done wrong or miss? please help me

thanks guys. look forward to hearing from you.

 

[Cüneyt Kaya]

hey RED guys,

i just wrapped up a shoot on RED, and i know this sounds really noob, but can someone guide me through the transferring of footage from harddrive to FCP.

I tried to Log and transfer the RED files on final cut, but it taking an incredible slow speed. appox 1 hour for 4 mins long footage. is there something i done wrong or miss? please help me

thanks guys. look forward to hearing from you.

its the harddrive-connection, guess your not using esata?
cant you drop the footy to the internal storage and then L&T

edit: you are not using L&T directly from the red drive, right?

 

[Noah Kadner]

I'd start with the instructions that come with the installer for the RED Final Cut Studio plugin. Also have a look in the Apple Forum:

http://www.reduser.net/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=20

Here's part one of the FCP workflow from my book:

http://ptgmedia.pearsoncmg.com/impr...achpit/downloads/finalcut/RED_FCPworkflow.pdf

Rest is here:

RED: The Ultimate Guide to Using the Revolutionary Camera

Noah

 

[zack zhou]

its the harddrive-connection, guess your not using esata?
cant you drop the footy to the internal storage and then L&T

edit: you are not using L&T directly from the red drive, right?

thanks guys

i'm using a G drive. http://www.g-technology.com/products/g-drive.cfm

using FireWire 800, is that a reason for the slow transfer? and the harddrive keeps getting disconnected. together with the long waits, it's kind of add more frustration.

what do u guys recommend?

 

[zack zhou]

thanks Cüneyt

i'm using a G drive. http://www.g-technology.com/products/g-drive.cfm

using FireWire 800, is that a reason for the slow transfer? and the harddrive keeps getting disconnected. together with the long waits, it's kind of add more frustration.

what do u guys recommend?

 

[Cüneyt Kaya]

thanks Cüneyt

i'm using a G drive. http://www.g-technology.com/products/g-drive.cfm

using FireWire 800, is that a reason for the slow transfer? and the harddrive keeps getting disconnected. together with the long waits, it's kind of add more frustration.

what do u guys recommend?

are u using a laptop or desktop computer with enough internal storage?

 

[Greg M]

what are the specs of your computer? What are you converting the footage to? If you can give a detailed description of what you are doing and using, it will be easier to help.

 

[zack zhou]

here's the spec, there's not enough space on the internal harddrive

Model Name: iMac
Model Identifier: iMac9,1
Processor Name: Intel Core 2 Duo
Processor Speed: 2.66 GHz
Number Of Processors: 1
Total Number Of Cores: 2
L2 Cache: 6 MB
Memory: 4 GB

Chipset Model: NVIDIA GeForce 9400
Type: Display
Bus: PCI
VRAM (Total): 256 MB

 

[zack zhou]

mmm actually im not sure what im coverting too. i just shot a short film on RED, and was told to simply install red plug in, log and transfer to final cut pro and then use the transferred footage to edit like how one does with HD footages. i'm a film student so kind of like a blind kid

 

[Cüneyt Kaya]

just let the imac transcode it over night.

 

[Greg Ephraim]

that sounds about the right amount of processing time for that machine, are you l&t to prores or native? if you choose native you'll get much faster transcode speeds...but a little trickier to edit with the native footage because it is very processor heavy

 

[Brandon Fraley]

depending on the project, don't forget that you can just edit the proxy files. I can edit the 1K files in realtime on my 3 year old laptop with no rendering or tanscoding, plus they open in color as the actual r3ds and can be spit out at 2k.

just sayin...

 

[zack zhou]

thanks brandon Cüneyt and grey,

i tried to log and transfer with red plug in. and the quality seems to drop pretty much. is it normal?

i tried using drag and drop 2 K files on the RT unlimited without rendering or transcoding and the quality seems to be at its best. but workflow seems kind of slow when editing.

for a beginner like me whose editing red for the first time, i will love to learn. which is the best process do u suggests?

look forward to learning from you

 

[zack zhou]

thanks grey,

i'm using native. what do u suggest? love to learn more

 

[Jamie Havill]

mmm actually im not sure what im coverting too. i just shot a short film on RED, and was told to simply install red plug in, log and transfer to final cut pro and then use the transferred footage to edit like how one does with HD footages. i'm a film student so kind of like a blind kid

I'm sure someone will step in here and help you. Give as much information as you can. I am also a film student using Red for the first time in December, but I'm spending months and month's researching beforehand.

I know it's not much help now, but never just dive in like this. Always research, and always know what your doing and how your going to do it.