Redcine Output Tab Questions

[SiLOFiLMS]

Since I couldn't find the answers to these questions in the redcine manual (wait, what manual?) I'm going forum fishing. Please help:

1. ) Is there a relationship in terms of quality/render time with the "Quality" and "Process" buttons? If so, is there a point where you max out render times for tiny gains? Anyone have the secret sauce and willing to share for "darn nice looking Prorez HQ quicktime that won't take days to render"...

2.) While we're on the subject, what do those two (Quality and Process) do specifically? They sound virtually the same...

3.) I can't seem to make my file exports maintain the same name as source.. It always ads the name of my RedCine project file at the end.. What am I doing wrong?

 

[Nick Gallegos]

The way I understand it, the "Quality" setting controls the amount of compression used by the chosen video encoder. The "Process" setting is the level of information pulled from the actual R3D file. IHMO, the "Process" setting should always stay at "Full" if your rendered output is intended for online.

If your Redcine output is meant for online (i.e. finished footage), you'll likely want to use the maximum possible "Quality" setting for the video encoder as well, as these video files will become your masters in a sense.

As for your third question, after you choose the desired video format (it resets the file naming conventions every time you change video formats) and encoder, click on the box above the "Format" pulldown (it usually defaults to "#S.mov") and then click the "Input File Name" button. This will attach the file name of the source instead. If you click the "Separate Folders" button, it will place each rendered clip in its own numbered EVENT folder (this is required for some workflows, like Crimson).

The tutorial videos also explain a lot of this. See this thread.

Hope that helps.

 

[teo]

If you select "Input File Name" option, you get files with original names (A001C001 etc), than you can load all your files in Automator application and use rename action. In renaming options just copy/paste text you want to replace with nothing. This is how I reconnect stuff for back to Final Cut.

A have another question about export tab in RedCine. Why I have on my laptop all installed codecs in RedCine QuickTime options, and on my MacPro only few. Codecs, versions of system and all the software are the same, I have even reinstalled everything and is the same?

Thank you for answers!