Premiere CC 2015, Epic Dragon footage problem- no such problem with other R3Ds, pleas

[patrickortman]

Hi,

I'm doing a show where we shot most of the footage on my RED Dragon Scarlet, and we're editing in Premiere Pro 2015 (latest build). I've had REDs for many years.

I have one shot that we did not shoot ourselves- it is a RED Dragon Epic shot, from an aerial company that rocks (love those guys).

All the other shots- all the R3Ds I've ever played with- in Premiere you can right click on the file name in the Project panel, and you'll see 'Source Settings'. This lets me do basic rough color and exposure matches, which is pretty important for client approvals, and it makes me feel better about my storytelling.

Well, this ONE SHOT, from the Epic Dragon, grays out the 'Source Settings' menu. Every other shot (there's about 40) in the timeline- no problem, it's available.

Any ideas what I need to do to fix this?

YES, I can change it in RED Cine-X. But that's not a lot of help, in that it does not seem to be "moving over" with the file upon import/re-import. And I do not want to render the clip, I want to bring it into DaVinci and color it for real later on.

Thanks,

Patrick

 

[patrickortman]

Further testing confirms this is a weird, weird Adobe Premiere CC 2015 error, that perhaps only affects early Dragon cams. It works fine in Cine-X, Resolve, and After Effects.

 

[Dmitry Burenok]

Go to effects, click on "MASTER CLIP" - your RED settings are there. Thanks ADOBE for this useful fuck up

 

[patrickortman]

Dmitry,

You are a prince. Exactly. And weirdly, it ONLY matters on the ONE clip... but that said, I did upgrade to CC 2015 mid-stream on this project, so perhaps all my other, already-imported clips didn't get affected.

Geez, now to tell the aerial company. They couldn't figure it, either.

P

 

[Zeb B]

PP CC 2015 is buggy as shit. Had to Force Quit like 50 times in the last 24hrs. Cool new color grading section but it no likie the nMP or rendering hirez timelapse footie. Freezes a bunch. Hopefully Adobe is working on fixes. Seems by the forum chat that the PC boyz are having issues as well

 

[Kevin Monahan]

Hi Zeb,
Is this with a new project for an updated one?

Thanks,
Kevin

 

[Kevin Monahan]

but that said, I did upgrade to CC 2015 mid-stream on this project

It would be great in the future if you could avoid updating projects from one major project file format to the next. I've been seeing unexpected behavior in complex projects that are updated for the past few major versions. See my blog post here: http://blogs.adobe.com/kevinmonahan/2015/06/16/updating-and-backing-up-project-files-best-practices/

Thanks,
Kevin