red cine colour correction issue

[Lee Kelly]

My rough colour corrections are not being transfered to my pro res exported files.
Can someone walk me through what i might be missing.
I open my clip, adjust everything to my liking, as in contrast, shadow, saturation sharpen etc then export.
I come back in 8days (no red rocket) and the pro res files are dull like the raw with no colour correction that i spent time on???
There must be a little button or something that i didnt click???
Thanks.

 

[Matthew Yaeger]

My rough colour corrections are not being transfered to my pro res exported files.
Can someone walk me through what i might be missing.
I open my clip, adjust everything to my liking, as in contrast, shadow, saturation sharpen etc then export.
I come back in 8days (no red rocket) and the pro res files are dull like the raw with no colour correction that i spent time on???
There must be a little button or something that i didnt click???
Thanks.

Make sure you are on RCX build 13.

The open a clip from the browser pane, adjust to your liking and export works, however you have to consider that your look will not be saved by default, and changing clips before the export will loose your grade on the previous clip. Opening a clip from the browser is asking RCX to load the clip clean from the source media. If you don't save your settings before switching clips (Effectively closing the current one and opening the new one) they will be lost.

You can enable automatic saving of RMD files to make RCX save the look after every change making RCX work more like older pre-RCX RED software. This is done in the preferences menu. (Though I do not recommend this workflow as you get many more features using the bin/project workflow instead)

You can also click on the gear icon in the viewer and choose save RMD once you have your preferred grade, or ideally you could choose "Send to Bin".

The bin workflow in RCX is much more versatile than trying to grade and export using just the browser, and gives you the ability to perform actions on many clips at once, as well as save everything to a project for later use.

My recommendation is you locate the clips you wish to grade using the browser and drag them to a bin and then from there do your grading and exporting.

Also, to test your workflow you can use in/out points to set it to only a single frame to ensure your color corrections are coming through properly.

 

[Bob Gundu]

I hope you didn't wait eight days to check the files!

 

[Lee Kelly]

Thanks for the info Matthew,
Im a bit of a rookie at the moment and trying to get my act together slowly but surely.
I tend to grade each clip to my liking instead of trying to apply a saved look to all the clips in the bin as light may have changed between various clips and what works for clip A may not work for clip B.
Ill download rcx 13 because at the moment i think im running 506?

With my slow macbook pro, transcoding takes forever and i fall inlove with almost everything i shoot (especially 240fps) so tend to want to keep it all ha ha ive got to learn to let some of it go.
Thanks again for the info.