R3D workflow for FCPX in 2019

[Andrew Reese]

This happens with my Gemini. It's annoying and I have to change all the RED's to Log3g10 & redwidegammut rgb with the inspector tool. Not sure why but it happens to me too and my FCPX is up to date. It's nice when everything comes in natively because then you can drag and drop to the timeline without any rendering triggered.

 

[Daniel Jocher]

Same here! Thought it was just my workstation but looks like that’s a global problem. Hope the new version will arrive anytime soon.

 

[Dipanka Sarma]

Revisiting thread two years later! As a newbie found all your advice invaluable and got comfortable with editing FCPX. But found color grading RD3 on FCPX not very satisfying.

Tried Davinci Resolve and was blown away by its Color page. The next step was to try out the Edit page and haven't gone back to FCPX ever since. The switch was easy even as a newbie (or perhaps because I was new and not entrenched with one software!). Editing and coloring on Resolve ever since. The studio version of 17 is a deeply satisfying tool.

 

[Dipanka Sarma]

Revisiting after 5 years, in case it benefits any other clueless amateurs like me:

My workflow with RED RAW files on a relatively slow laptop (4 year old MacBook Pro) became so much more efficient (and enjoyable) once I switched to Davinci Resolve for both editing and color grading...

AND using the Blackmagic Proxy generator.

After importing the RED files to Resolve, I click on the Blackmagic Proxy generator app, click start, and walk away to do other things. Within an hour, often in 20 mins (depending on the size and number of files of course) I come back to seamlessly edit the proxies.

Absolute pleasure, no more frustrations.