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Hi all,

Here are a few REDCINE tips and tricks that you may or may not know about. :) As I work with different people who have been using REDCINE, these shortcuts are things that people seem consistently surprised about.

1) LIBRARY - with a huge Library, hold down Spacebar+Click/Drag to pan across the timeline.

2) LIBRARY - lower right hand corner - Proxy info: Timecode. Shows the SourceTC of the current frame when dragging through the thumbnail.

3) LIBRARY - thumbnail details. There are 3 places to click on the thumbnail - top, middle, and bottom. Click+drag on the top and it scrubs through the clip. Click on the middle and it allows you to move/copy the clip. Click on bottom and it pulls up shot info.

4) Player - Shift+Home. Toggles between fullscreen playback and playback w/GUI

5) Top toolbar - Color Picker. Swipe up. Click on the Grey patch in the middle of the top toolbar. That exposes the color picker. Now click on Numeric on the right side of the color picker. Now click on the "0.0 - 1.0" option, which will allow you to select different numerical scales for showing color depending on how you "think" about color. When these settings are set, that is also the setting that the "RGB" button follows.

6) Setting up an entire timeline for different resolution output. For instance, for scaling an entire Library to HD from 4K...
1) Set Project Format to "HD 1080"
2) In Shot - turn "All" toggle on.
3) Click "No Scaling" and select "Fit Width."
What these steps do is to establish an HD timeline, then scale "All" clips to "Fit Width" to 1080.

7) Color - to quickly reset any parameter, click on that parameter's numerical value and hit "R" for Reset.

8) Color - for fine adjustment, hold down "Shift" while dragging parameters

9) Image Formats - in the Settings directory for REDCINE (on XP: C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\REDCINE\Settings) there is a file called ImageFormats.cfg. Open it in a text editor. That is the source for all the formats in the Project Format dropdown menu. If you are outputting to a non-standard resolution consistently, this is where you can add or subtract formats from the preset dropdown.

That's it for now! Some of you may already know all these, but a lot of them seem to surprise people when I show them. : )

Cheers,

Lucas
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ASSIMILATE, Inc.
LA, CA, USA
 
thanks, would be smart if red collects all your little tricks and adds it to the redcine download.

btw. the scratch guys in Berlin (cine-chromatix.de) are some of the coolest people around here
 
...to answer an offlist question...

In the "Library," there is a little-understood "Depth" setting. Let me try and explain what it does, as it is quite powerful.

Assume there is the following directory structure:

ROOT
-----Sc1
--------Tk1
-----------Alt1
-----------Alt2
--------Tk2
-----------Alt1
--------Tk3
-----Sc2
--------Tk1
-----------Alt1
--------Tk2

Set "Depth" to 1, and "Load Layer" at the ROOT.

Here is how clips will appear in the vertical slots:

Sc1/Tk3
Sc1/Tk2/Alt1
Sc1/Tk2
Sc1/Tk1/Alt2.......Sc2/Tk2
Sc1/Tk1/Alt1.......Sc2/Tk1/Alt1
Sc1/Tk1..............Sc2/Tk1

Set "Depth" to 2, and "Load Layer" at the ROOT.

Clips now appear as:

Sc1/Tk1/Alt2
Sc1/Tk1/Alt1.....Sc1/Tk2/Alt1..................Sc2/Tk1/Alt1
Sc1/Tk1...........Sc1/Tk2.........Sc1/Tk3.....Sc2/Tk1............Sc2/Tk2

The "DEPTH" setting controls *where* the bottom layer is assigned within a directory tree. Setting it to "1" says, "Step down 1 layer from the ROOT. That is the base layer. Anything under that base will be stacked vertically. When that first tree is exhausted, step to the next tree." Setting it to "2" says, "Step down 2 layers from ROOT, and stack from there."

Setting the DEPTH to something like 10 will result in every clip under ROOT going horizontal, as there is almost never 10 recursive layers under the ROOT.

If you're in VFX, then this concept will make sense immediately, because VFX people live and die by well-organized and methodical directory organization. For others, it may be harder to wrap your head around.

But just be aware that the "DEPTH" setting is not just a placeholder. It does stuff, and it can be very powerful across large projects. : )

Best,

Lucas Wilson
------------
ASSIMILATE, Inc.
LA, CA, USA
(watching election returns...)
 
Hey Lukas, this seems like a pretty obvious question - but I seem to be missing the obvious answer somewhere... is there a way to 'pickup' a render? The Mac I'm using keeps crashing out of Redcine somewhere through the middle of rendering a series of shots. When I relaunch redcine, I only want to rerender the clips that haven't been rendered.

gh
 
Hi all,

Thanks for the kind words regarding my posts... I've removed some of the "thank yous" just in the interest of cleaning up the Sticky... :)

Lucas
------
ASSIMILATE, Inc.
LA, CA, USA
 
Is there a key combination and click and drag to reframe a clip?

I would love a "Hold down the space bar then click and drag the window to reframe" and "Hold down the shift spacebar and click and drag to scale" sort of like the Option Click and drag zooms but instead of zooming--setting the scale on the clip.
 
luki said:
"M"

Lucas
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VP of Brevity
ASSIMILATE, Inc.
LA, CA, USA
Click to expand...

Thom said:
I saw that on the H screen, and tried it on my Macbook Pro but it doesn't work. Pressed and held M then dragged, pressed M and dragged, neither seems to work.

Am I missing something?
Click to expand...

I can't get "M" to work either (Mac Pro Leopard.) Would LOVE to be able to reframe without manually changing X&Y.

Any ideas?
 
The "R" reset resets to the original setting/default setting. It is not an undo per say, there is an undo button in REDCINE and/or you can use command z.
 
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