REDCINE-X Professional 13.21174 - Avid Export Failed with RED ONE Material

[Chris Hocking]

Hi Everyone,

We have just noticed a fairly major bug with REDCINE-X Professional - or at least, we assume it's a bug.

REDCINE-X Pro works FANTASTICALLY for exporting Avid MXF/AAF material when you shoot with an EPIC or Scarlet. Everything works as advertised. In goes an R3D, out goes an MXF, AAF and ALE - easy!

However, we have just noticed that it doesn't work with RED ONE material - and we were forced to render out DNxHD36 Quicktimes.

We have tried a variety of different machines (running both 10.6.8 and 10.7.3) - and went back a few versions of REDCINE-X Pro to see if it was a new bug - but couldn't get it to work. We also tried removing REDCINE-X Pro completely (i.e. trashing preferences), as well as installing it as a fresh install on another machine.

In this example, we're running REDCINE-X Professional 13.21174 Beta on a MacPro with a RED Rocket, on 10.6.8. The test footage we're using is from a RED ONE with a MYSTERIUM-X sensor, recorded at 4096x2304 REDcode 9:1 on the 31.6.16#31 firmware.

When exporting an Avid AAF & MXF file (1080p/25 DNxHD 36 8-bit) - instead of creating the usual AAF file, and generating an ALE - it just gives you an XML file (see below for contents of file) along with the MXF. However, when you try and open the MXF files within Avid - they're corrupt.

By corrupt I mean, that when you view the newly created MXF files in Avid's Media Tool - the duration for each media file is 12:00:00:00, and then when you try and view the Master Clip in the viewer Avid says "Exception: The sequence or one of its source elements is too long to be played". The first frame of the video is visible - but everything else after the first frame is corrupt. The file sizes of the MXF's look decent - so it must be doing the debayering correctly - but screwing up at the end.

Has anyone else noticed this? Has anyone been able to get Avid AAF & MXF exports to work out of REDCINE-X when using RED ONE material?

Again - EPIC and Scarlet footage works fine! We do this on a near daily basis - however, RED ONE footage just seems to fail for no apparent reason.

Any information would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks for your time!

Best Regards, Chris!

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XML FILE THAT IS CREATED WHEN USING THE AVID MXF & AAF PRESET:


<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" ?>
<AmtMediaAttributes>
<format>
<mediaFormat>Compressed</mediaFormat>
<signalStandard>SS_274M_P</signalStandard>
<dropFrame>kAVXFalse</dropFrame>
<compressionType>Avid::HD:NxHD</compressionType>
<dnxhdMbitsPerSecond>36</dnxhdMbitsPerSecond>
<dnxhdComponentBits>8</dnxhdComponentBits>
</format>
<timecode>01:42:14:03</timecode>
<bitRateMode>CONSTANT BIT RATE</bitRateMode>
<framesPerSecond>25</framesPerSecond>
<storedHeight>1080</storedHeight>
<storedWidth>1920</storedWidth>
<audioTracks>1</audioTracks>
<audioBits>24</audioBits>
<audioBitRate>48000</audioBitRate>
<audioCompressionType>Avid:CM::Uncompressed</audioCompressionType>
<tapeName>A001_C001_04205A</tapeName>

<extendedAttributes></extendedAttributes>
</AmtMediaAttributes>

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LOG FILES:


REDCINE-X PROFESSIONAL Build 13.21174 Beta Mac 64bit Public Release
MacOSX Snow Leopard 64 Little Endian
Using R3DSDK version 4.4 build 20A03 dated 20120314
Using Qt version 4.8.0, compiled against 4.8.0
RedRocket: 0 Decode ( Driver: 1.4.19.0 Firmware:1.1.16.5 Serial#: 31110331 ) PCIExpress( Ok: True Speed: 250 Width: 64 Count: 8 ) Status(4720, 43.000000 41.000626, 1.001556 1.561868 2.489631 3.258824 5.187274 12.182498 0)
Maximum memory percentage changed to: 75%
REDCINE-X PROFESSIONAL Build 13.21174 Beta Mac 64bit Public Release
OpenGL Information
Vendor: NVIDIA Corporation
Renderer: NVIDIA GeForce GT 120 OpenGL Engine
Version: 2.1 NVIDIA-1.6.36
SL Version: 1.20
GL Initialized using shader based rendering.


redexport Apr 16 2012 15:21:57 Mac 32bit Public Release
redexport: init msg received.

Avid Output Filename: /Users/assistanteditortwo/Desktop/a001_c001_04205a
redexport: total setup time = 1369 ms
redexport: frame: 0
redexport: frame: 1
-- REMOVED ALL THE FRAMES IN BETWEEN TO KEEP POST SIZE DOWN --
redexport: frame: 1331
redexport: stop msg received.
Avid Exporter::exportAudio - Samples Read: 2557440 Samples Written: 2557440 /NumAudioChan = 2557440 Expected Samples: 2555520

 

[Grant Yoshida]

There's a known bug with exporting 25 fps clips with audio to Avid in REDCINE-X PRO.

We hope to have this fixed in the near future.

 

[Chris Hocking]

Thanks for the update Grant.

As a workaround we are now exporting the MXF material without audio, doing a separate BWF export to get the audio out, then auto-syncing in Avid. Seems to work fine.

We've been using REDCINE-X Professional since it's release, and have only just noticed this! How funny! I didn't release it's been going on for so long:

http://www.reduser.net/forum/showth...MXF-in-1080-25p-with-audio-still-doesn-t-work

 

[Chris Hocking]

Fixed in REDCINE-X Pro Build 14. Thanks RED!