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Anders Holck

Anders Holck

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Well, I stated in another thread that wrapping a commandline tool into an automator action was easy....

So I just tried and....I present the first result of wrapping REDLINE: Make Quicktime Wrappers.

Looks like this in Automator:
MQW.png


Download here:
MakeQuickTimeWrappers.action.zip

- It needs .R3D file locations as input, not folders.
- You need to have REDLINE installed. It comes with REDALERT.
- Double click the un-zipped action to install.
- It's located in the "Movies" group in the Automator library
- You can also search for: red, r3d, wrapper, quicktime to locate it.
- There is no input file filter (yet) so only select r3d files or it will fail.
- It passes the original file list to the following action, not the wrappers.
 
Anders Holck said:
Well, I stated in another thread that wrapping a commandline tool into an automator action was easy....

So I just tried and....I present the first result of wrapping REDLINE: Make Quicktime Wrappers.

Looks like this in Automator:
MQW.png


Download here:
MakeQuickTimeWrappers.action.zip

- It needs .R3D file locations as input, not folders.
- You need to have REDLINE installed. It comes with REDALERT.
- Double click the un-zipped action to install.
- It's located in the "Movies" group in the Automator library
- You can also search for: red, r3d, wrapper, quicktime to locate it.
- There is no input file filter (yet) so only select r3d files or it will fail.
- It passes the original file list to the following action, not the wrappers.
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Thanks so much Anders - I'd love ALL of the RedLine actions in Automator - keep pluggin away!!
 
Offhollywood said:
Thanks so much Anders - I'd love ALL of the RedLine actions in Automator - keep pluggin away!!
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"Render to QuickTime" and "Render to DPX" is almost done...

BTW: Is it just me or is Redline not using the RSX settings?
I use "Redline -i inputfile --format 10" to make the wrappers.
Also tried the --useMeta tag...
 
My little knowledge (Barely 0%) of Red Line so as i remmember that RedLine

Suppose and only work with set of computers connected togather WITHIN

(Render Farm) .? is that correct . how this will gonna be usefull for me

in Future plans having small Cow's Farm :) :excl:

i thINKS THIS automator action will gonna be very usefull .thanks .
 
Thanks Anders,

You see folks another Red Genius on our hands!!
 
anders is it possible to add the following step to your application.
-take the generated proxies....and run them through compressor to get a folder with 1k/2k Pro Res files...?

----------------------thank you man for redportal and this
 
Anders thanks a lot for this tool... its great....

will it be possible please to make one automator action with the --useEC tag? so that we can have the edge TC in the wrappers??? this would be really great....

best regards

rainer
 
Sure. Anything else thats missing from the Wrapper action?
 
The actions can be sed as a swiss knife for building a workflow.

This first wrapper action can batch process all your R3D files and build wrappers if they are missing.

My next action can export stand alone Quicktime files from R3D files. This enables you to batch convert all your files to another format without entering Redcine.

It's all about flexibility. Redcine doesnt read the project framerate at the moment, and is very unstabile on my Mac Pro. Having a flexible option that always work is the prime thing.
 
Anders -

Again, Thank you so much for this little nugget of awesomeness!

I am PM'ing you about a donation for your hard work. This really is great!
 
anders
thanks for what you are doing
it would be great making quicktime wrappers using .rsx file.
in that way you can start editing with a look for your quicktime proxy.
is that possible?
 
Thanks Shawn.
If you feel like supporting me you can add some funds to paypal@andersholck.com by clicking the donation button at my fcprescue site
But as I always say: just send me some good karma and happy thoughts :-)

I cant get redline to apply the .RSX look, if anyone has this working in redline please post the commandline option for doing so and ill add it to the action ASAP.
 
K.Berlin said:
what is fcp rescue doing anders?
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It makes a backup of all the preferencefiles sed by FCP.
Then you can restore at will. Or trash to clean the preferences and get the "virgin" settings back.

It's still a problem, even in version 6, that fcp sometimes corrupts the preference files making the software unstable.
 
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