RED ALERT: Render Setting explained?

[David Battistella]

Hi,

In the new render pane of RED ALERT there are several settings for outputting footage. Some are self explanatory (debayer quality HALF or FULL), but others could use some further explanation (which resample filter to use for example).

I know that the software is still beta, but is there an operation manual available to better explain the settings in RED ALERT, both in the grading window and in the render window?

Just wanting to squeeze the most out of all those pixels RED captures.

Thanks in advance.

David

 

[Sean]

Does Red alert have the sinc filter? Adam Wilt suggests on his PVC blog that the sinc filter in RedCine probably offers the best scaling results.

 

[Graeme Nattress]

There is no "one best" downscaling filter. A good description of scaling filters is in the Apple Shake manual.

Graeme

 

[Joel Kaye]

Graeme can you give some settings advice for this scenario:

I'm considering skipping color correction in RedCine/RedAlert and bringing all the dynamic range I can into ProRes to tackle in Apple Color or another app. I want the best debayer and noise reduction and sharpening. (I suppose noise reduction and sharpening may end up be clip dependent)

My thoughts are these:

What color space should I be using on export. Would one of the log formats serve me better than Rec709?

Is noise reduction in these apps heavily tuned to RED footage so it will always be superior to other apps?

How does sharpening interplay with noise reduction? Should both be performed in RedCine or RedAlert. Or can sharpening be done last in another app? Or sharpen first and denoise later? Is there a preferred order those 2 things should be performed.

Is RedCine superior to Red Alert at any of these things? Will there be a command line version for it?

Thanks!

 

[SF Geek]

There is no "one best" downscaling filter. A good description of scaling filters is in the Apple Shake manual.

Graeme

So how do linear and B-spline compare to the others. They're not in the manual.