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RED - Eyeon Fusion Workflow

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Sebastian Schütt

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Hey Guys,

I am studying Digital Film Design at the Babelsberg Film School in Germany.
I am working on a student project from an other university and they filmed their material with the RED.
We are using Cinered to export the shots for VFX work, but I am not fit in topics like "dpx, log, lin, color space etc.".

What's the best method to export the shots from Cinered to Eyeon Fusion as dpx ? For the export I picked DPX and 10bit, but whats up with the color space settings (redspace, sRGB etc.). I left it at redspace yet, but the shots look washed out in fusion... do I have to pick sRGB ?

And what I am supposed to do with this exported footage in fusion ? Should I use the Gamut Tool and how ?

I would be very happy, if somebody could explain me this workflow for dummies.

Thank you and
Greetings from Germany,

Sebastian.
 
Eyeon announced direct R3D importing back in October, but it doesn't seem to have materialised.

I would not use Redspace as a VFX gamma; it compresses the highlights way too much. REC709 or redlog or pdlog985 would be a better bet.
 
Hey,

thanks for the tip, and which colour space is the best for vfx work and some pregrading in fusion ?
What do I have to do in Fusion after importing the dpx-files ?

I have to make them linear, but I need a LUT to see the material like the DOP saw it through the camera, don't I ?

Where can I get this LUT ?
 
Hey Sebastian.

Forget DPX. If you want to grade and do VFX in Fusion you should export them as OpenEXR from REDCINE and set the loader in Fusion at 32bit float. This way you have total control of the footage and it's dynamic range as it was shot from the Camera.

If you have done your basic first light correction in REDCINE you dont need to change the colour space inside Fusion's flow and you don't need any LUT on it's viewer to see correctly the footage. You can start working as is.
 
Hey Miltos,

but which colour space and Gamma am I suppossed to choose in Redcine then ?
 
I would use rec709 in redcine and export 16bit tiffs for many reasons. 16bit linear carries all the information recorded(sometimes you might need to lower the exposure a tiny bit, check the histogram in redcine). This way you dont have to use any luts, conversions etc, plus openexr is not supported by every software around, whereas a tiff sequence is recognisable by virtually everything.
 
Hi guys, just a head's up. The new Open Candidate for Fusion 6 just came out and it has *.R3D support built in. It's great. As far as I can tell all the options from REDcine are available straight from within Fusion's loaders. ISO, White balance, color space etc can be accessed. It makes working with R3D files lots and lots easier and quicker.
If you're on Fusion subscription be sure to check it out!
 
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