REDrushes problems...

[Ian Ogden]

Hi,
I'm very very new to RED and I'm trying to get a workflow organised to minimise my post production costs on a short film I'm producing. The basic rough story of my situation is that I am producing a short 10 minute film with some public funding, and the post production costs are set to be vast and will only allow me a maximum of 7 days editing. Our creative ethos means that we would need a lot more time, so I am looking into methods of editing the footage by way of using low resolution versions (720p or DV) with embedded timecodes, then giving myself a large amout of editing time at home, then taking this version to the post production facility and assembling a full 4k cut from the low res edit using the embedded timecodes for reference. This probably sounds very familiar to you all, BUT my question is as follows. How can I create these low-res versions?

I have downloaded some sample .r3d files to test out the workflow, but REDrushes just keeps on giving me error next to my clips.

Can anybody help?

My computer stats are as follows:

iMac 20"
2.4 Ghz Intel Core 2 Duo
4GB 667 Mhz DDR2 SDRAM
ATI Radeon HD 2600 256MB VRAM
32-bit colour.

 

[Jeff Kilgroe]

RED Rushes is discontinued, download REDCINE-X -- latest version is build 348.

What software are you intending to edit in? I've cut numerous projects on an older Macbook Pro with very similar specs to that iMac. The weak link in this pipeline, if you're working with RED footage directly for editing, will be the lack of high speed storage or any way to connect decently fast storage to that system. Even with that, you should be able to edit directly in Premiere Pro at 1/16th resolution without much strain on the system. If you transcode, going out to 480p (possibly 720p) QT proxy format would be just the ticket. You can do that out of REDCINE-X and it let's you double check color/exposure, set in and out points, do batch conversions, etc..

Transcodes to lower-resolution proxy formats go pretty quick if you do a 1/4 or 1/8 debayer of the RED footage, so building usable proxies is not a big deal, even on a system like that iMac.

 

[Ian Ogden]

Right ok. I think I understand all that. I'm looking to edit in FCP6. My thoughts regarding the high speed storage is to import the low res versions independently from the full res stuff, because I will be taking them to a different machine to output to full res and grade the files. So there will be no references to the full res in the metadata of the low res versions, merely the burnt in timecodes for the mac pro system to handle. I have 1.5 TB of firewire 800 storage on the system too, plus 500GB of internal space on the hard drive. Which should be sufficient for such low quality files.

Why was Red Rushes discontinued. The interface is so much simpler than Red Cine-x and it seems like such a good tool, if it worked properley. Does anybody have any other R3D files I could use to test my system, other than the ones I have already found on the standard r3d test footage site?