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realtime NLE for RED

Blair S. Paulsen said:
It sure would nice to have a full raster 1080 x 1920 option besides uncompressed, which is a hog for space and drops frames even on fast rigs. Is RedCode RGB (not RAW) an option or is that fully uncompressed?
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Red has said there will be QuickTime components for Redcode (both RGB and RAW). See here: http://www.dvxuser.com/V6/showpost.php?p=759744&postcount=5

This means you can edit Redcode directly in Final Cut Pro.

However, odds are you shouldn't expect real-time anything. The current version of FCP can't do real-time except with codecs Apple has added explicit support for. Of course it's always possible Apple will take an interest in Redcode, or FCP will be updated to eliminate this limitation. (It doesn't exist in the more modern Final Cut Studio apps like Motion.)

Also, keep in mind that nobody outside of Red has any idea what sort of processor requirements might be required to play back Redcode footage in real-time in QuickTime apps. Possibly this isn't even known inside Red, as development is ongoing.
 
DVCPROHD was just an example. Export to another QuickTime codec if that works better for you.
 
Blair S. Paulsen said:
It sure would nice to have a full raster 1080 x 1920 option besides uncompressed
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CineForm RAW and CineForm's CFHD format are both coming to FCP and quicktime . . . even if you don't want to use the RAW file approach of CineForm, there's always the option for using their real-time YUV wavelet codec, and that is full-raster.

Also, does DNxHD work inside of Final Cut?

And then there's the excellent SheerVideo codecs that are very fast and give you a little over 2:1 lossless compression (which would work for HD/2K editing with a modest drive array).

Finally, check out PhotoJPEG . . . it's fast, has good generation-to-generation encoding/decoding stamina, and it's full-raster 4:2:2.
 
Of any of the current NLE's, the only one that I would expect to support RED and be able to edit it in realtime (system allowing) would be EDIUS. Format compatibility and realtime editing are the two things the EDIUS has going for them, and the reason I went with them when I purchased my HVX's

Jason
 
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