HELP: Redcine v.20: How Do I Send R3D files and RCN ?

[Johnny Friday]

I just did some color corrections and trimmed various R3D files within Redcine v.20

Great, now i want to send them to my stock house....so i transfered all of the referenced R3D files to a portable drive. I also copied the .RCN file from it's original location on my MacPro...to the same hard drive-- I know that this .RCN file points to R3D files on my MacPro, but i'm assuming it will ask me Where are those files and i can point it when the stock house opens the file? ---BUT no it wont.

So, can anyone shed some light on how i would do this? The ultimate goal for me here is that I do the color correction, selects, in/out points and send it to them and they do the final color grading and output to ProRes 422 from the original R3D files. My machine is just WAY to slow to do that.

So i have completed the selects and such and transfered all files and the rcn file to my portable drive, but when going to the project setting in redcine and i go to: project - new to clear the board, then open and try to open my rcn file within my portable drive (that i know was setup originally on my other system), and it just gives me blue frames--it will not ask me where those files are as i expected and i thought i would just point it to the portable drive where the r3d files are now.

Can anyone tell me what i am doing wrong here ?
Thanks...

**or another workflow? I can still access my files via my RCN file and then possibly output another way. but can not do any conversions to pro-res because it will take me days.

 

[Johnny Friday]

bump

 

[Johnny Friday]

anyone?

 

[Ross Birkbeck]

I don't think RedCine can do relinking. Irritatingly.

You could use Clipfinder to create new RSX files, which can then be used to export through redrushes etc, or further modified. But you'll have to redo all the grading work... and no trimming...

 

[Johnny Friday]

RED rep on this one?? please!

RED rep on this one?? please!

So, would be nice if a RED rep could step in here and clear the air. BUT, seems SO simple that the program redcine could/should say: no files detected, where are they....then you point to the folder you moved them to. NO?

Well, in the meantime i figured out a work around.

So i did the R3D downloading to one of my storage drives and did all the selects, color correction etc... on that storage drive.

Upon completion i copied the relevant files to my portable drive along with the rcn file that represented the color correction etc.... for those files. That portable file will get sent to a stock agency.

Now, they have to open it up, but if they open redcine then choose file-open and the relevent rcn file i made, it will just bring up a blue screen.

So, the only way to get it to open the files and see the work i did was to name the portable drive to the SAME name as the drive i did the original work on and all subfolders as well to the same name and extensions.

Although this works, is it not simple coding to just have redcine (as most other programs we work with) to see the files do not exist and then ask where should it look for them? Sure would save DAYS of work in my case if i had not found this bit of work-around.

RED?
any chance on redcine-x ??

 

[Brent Carter]

Have you filed a support ticket? REDUSER is a great way to get community support. If you want support directly from RED, file a ticket on www.red.com/support . As often as we (ie, RED) is on REDUSER, the support ticket process is certainly more targeted.

BC