Red Cine X pro vs Log and Transfer

[Joe Riggs]

Hi,

Doing the standard offline to online workflow and wanted to know which program would be faster for doing the transcodes, Red Cine X pro or Log and Transfer within Final Cut Pro 7?

Footage is 4k from RED ONE

I would also be interested to know which option is less hassle when I need to go back to the original media files for color grading, there seems to be a number of people having issues relinking using the Red Cine X workflow. I know with Log and transfer, you can only make 2k files, instead of 1080p or 720p but since I'm just using that just for the offline does it even matter?

 

[Shane Kelly]

I'd say redcine-x will be faster as you can use multiple cores by using redline. It's not a very well publicized feature but does speed things up.
Da Vinci lite is also pretty fast and may work better for going back to color correction.
There's a new apple white paper on a workflow for fcp and davinci. I'll see if I can find the link.
edit:
here it is: http://images.apple.com/finalcutpro/docs/RED_Workflows_with_Final_Cut_Pro_X.pdf

 

[Joe Riggs]

Thanks Shane