Red Media with Autodesk Products

[Nigel Thompson]

Hey guys:

Has anyone used red media in an Autodesk environment yet? has any footage been edited on a smoke to date ? Does anyone know of this ? Just curious. I'm a Smoke and Flame fan although i cant afford them (YET). Plan on getting them pretty soon and of course a Red one so doing some research.

Nigel

 

[Greg M]

We have been editing in Smoke since #83 arrived.

 

[Nigel Thompson]

ok,

cool, good to know, so whats your workflow like, do you export from REDAlert to quicktime ? what do you with the media once you get it ?

 

[Barend Onneweer]

Quicktime support in Smoke is limited. Typically you'd use RedAlert or RedCine to export image sequences and edit those.

Bar3nd

 

[stipan]

Graded stuff in Lustre. This footage pulls crazy keys! Now I have to ask Discreet (Autodesk) to have half steps of blur! No editing in our Smoke yet.
Works great with Scratch as well;-)

Tim Stipan
DI Colorist
NYC

 

[Nigel Thompson]

cool:

Yea well i know discreet stuff has alot of image sequence support. hmmm a 4K tiff sequence, or maybe a 2k extract. Yup that sounds better. boy am i gonna have fun. Well i use Combustion/FCS right now and am gonna take a few smoke course and flame as well, just cant beat a flame for compositing in my books.
Sounds simple enough.

So how does smoke/flame handle the 4k stuff ? or do you guys do a 2k or 1k extract and edit with that ? Cause i know smoke can go up to 2k (correct me if im wrong). Fire can handle 4K, correct ?

 

[Greg M]

We export DPX sequences of of Red Cine.
We can edit 4k, but it only plays about 10-15 fps. We usually scale the footage down to 2k and it plays rt

 

[Nigel Thompson]

So so far dpx files look or work best or have you experimented with other files types.

i'll be doing music videos for international distribution with the set up mostly, so i guess 2k will me great for me, 2k bumped down to SD or even 1080 should look really good. And even that 2k image is bumped down from 4 so i guess i'll be ok.
just planning everything way ahead.