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RedCine vs. Rec Alert!

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Just wondering what people like better, Red Cine or Red Alert!? And why? DO you find better options with your preference?

Cheers,
 
they're kind of for different things, I'm sure everyone here uses both.
 
red alert works fine

redcine: i have problems to export a quicktime.

so i always use red alert at the moment.
 
exporting a quicktime brings just a single frame...
 
i will have a look on it later when i am at office.

thanks for support so far!
 
ok. i just put my in and out
output setting: quicktime , prores

i name it something like test.mov ...

go to "go", redcine renders the frames, but the final quicktime is a freezed frame.
 
ok. i use redcine now. hahaha, man thanks. it works.

i never would have this suggestion. salute and a cool beer to you :)
 
Redalert is better to use on set when DP wants to check Histogram and export frames quickly... RedAlert is just faster for quick looks and creating presets for L & T and Red Rushes, for that purpose its absolutely necessary.

Red Cine I only use at the end of the workflow before Online. Its a very heavy program, and I dont trust On set laptops to run it very well...
 
what are people's playback speeds in redcine vs. redalert? they both allow adjustments but i find the playback speeds to be the real distinguishing factor.

i always use redcine not just to color correct in realtime but to preview footage at 24fps so i instantly know how the take played out and really looks. aside from outputting looks for export, redalert has never worked effectively for me. it plays at about 1fps, takes forever to repond to any sliders or curves and has no real frame adjustment options like redcine.

i'm running mac pro 8 core 2.8 ghz with 10 gigs
 
Red South West said:
ok. i just put my in and out
output setting: quicktime , prores

i name it something like test.mov ...

go to "go", redcine renders the frames, but the final quicktime is a freezed frame.
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Same result here. Only successful with Red Alert, which is vastly improved with Red Rushes. (6 times as fast with multiprocessing)

Using Mac Pro 8 core OS 10.4.11, Kona 3

Contacted Red about this months ago, and they (Kevin, who is now gone) said they knew about the problem. Is this true of all Mac Systems?
 
the "library" advice by tico worked, did you try it?
 
Brandon said:
they're kind of for different things, I'm sure everyone here uses both.
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Well... I think you're forgetting that Red Alert only works on Apples, so some of us can't use it and have never even seen it.
 
We have exactly the same problem here Red South West. We stopped using REDCine now and started using REDAlert, even though we like REDCine more. Hope this will be fixed in the next version.
 
But Why?

But Why?

As a newbee -

What is the difference between RedCine and Red Alert?

Did one come first and the other is meant to replace it? The download page really doesn't cover why and when to use one over the other.

-Glen
 
Like others have said here. RedCine with Crimson can be a type of finishing tool. Where as REDAlert with REDrushes is more of "I want to see it now"...the way it is on most sets. Its kind of like a lab, except you could watch your dailies during lunch or dinner of that shooting day. If you have a DIT that knows what he's doing on set, which is the only way to go on a Red camera shoot. Usually I never go into REDAlert. But since I started to mess around with REDrushes I'm beginning to like it a little bit more.
 
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