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Some general RED questions

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Hello all, I would appreciate some feedback from folks who have done this before.
  1. Let us assume someone buys a used RED Epic MX, does that person need to pay monthly for a REDCODE RAW license or have to pay to transfer a license or can REDCODE RAW be used straight away with Premiere Pro or Resolve?
  2. Does the current 2023 version of Premiere Pro or Resolve support processing RAW footage shot on an Epic MX?
  3. Do Windows 10 and Windows 11 support the Epic MX? E.g. will it recognize a MAG reader when plugged into the computer?
 
1. No. REDCODE RAW can be used straight away.
2. Yes. For many years.
3. Yes. Also for many years.
 
Have had a great experience getting my RED One MX footage up and running with my first feature started back in 2018 (long story), the only issue was coming up against Premiere Pro and After Effects' media cache as it filled up a lot sooner than I was used to with HD and routinely needed to be dumped with my spare cache drive installed. Windows 7 Pro and Windows 10 Pro worked fine with our RED 1.8 reader and if standards haven't started moving for 8K I would consider using the RED One MX on our next feature, very capable and works like a champ and I'm sure an Epic MX would be just as good of a camera to work with today as well.

If you want to know about any issues, we filmed with Cinema DNG on our Blackmagic Pocket 4K which served as our backup/gimbal camera later on in production and that was just right before the BRAW firmware came out. To this day Cinema DNG still needs to be transcoded to work in After Effects, ridiculous! Definitely an all R3D workflow would have helped but at the time we didn't have the great deals on Epic MX and Dragon cameras that are available now.
 
Phil Holland said:
1. No. REDCODE RAW can be used straight away.
2. Yes. For many years.
3. Yes. Also for many years.
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Thank you very much, Phil. Great to know. I consider you as a celebrity because your website with those helpful tools is fantastic.
 
Zack Birlew said:
Have had a great experience getting my RED One MX footage up and running with my first feature started back in 2018 (long story), the only issue was coming up against Premiere Pro and After Effects' media cache as it filled up a lot sooner than I was used to with HD and routinely needed to be dumped with my spare cache drive installed. Windows 7 Pro and Windows 10 Pro worked fine with our RED 1.8 reader and if standards haven't started moving for 8K I would consider using the RED One MX on our next feature, very capable and works like a champ and I'm sure an Epic MX would be just as good of a camera to work with today as well.

If you want to know about any issues, we filmed with Cinema DNG on our Blackmagic Pocket 4K which served as our backup/gimbal camera later on in production and that was just right before the BRAW firmware came out. To this day Cinema DNG still needs to be transcoded to work in After Effects, ridiculous! Definitely an all R3D workflow would have helped but at the time we didn't have the great deals on Epic MX and Dragon cameras that are available now.
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Thank you Zack. What is your honest opinion on handheld or shoulder work with the Red One MX? Quite heavy and tiresome? What is your equipment setup like? Steadicam?
 
Well, we filmed more traditionally on tripod or smooth dolly/light crane for the most part, however, for one scene "pre-Blackmagic-Pocket-4K", I threw the One MX on my shoulder to pull off the shot and man, that sharp edged bottom base of the camera dug into my shoulder pretty good lol! Thankfully I started working out again after graduating from grad school so the weight of the One MX wasn't too bad at all, it was just awkwardly shaped and I didn't have a shoulder rig for it at the time, I do now though and it's way better! Thankfully, by being so bulky and heavier, I pulled off the shot pretty smoothly but I'm all for shoulder pad rigs at this point for the foreseeable future.

As far as tiring out, I think I would get tired with any camera over time since most have to be rigged up somewhat, but I definitely wouldn't go all day with a bigger camera like the RED One MX on my shoulder or handheld if I could help it, that's Easyrig territory. I recently bought a Panasonic HDX900 to see what retro top of the line 2/3" HD video looked like and that felt heavier with the lens attached and was utterly colossal when I put on my Letus Ultimate setup with the Letus 2/3" relay lens, so to have such an inherently advanced camera in the RED One MX shows it isn't all that bad by comparison. On my feature we actually had more trouble with the Pocket 4K and DJI Ronin 3 which was a much heavier and cumbersome endeavor than throwing the RED One MX on a shoulder so it's pretty relative when it comes to freely moving the camera. If you're buying an Epic MX or other DSMC+ camera then you're going to have a much easier time for shouldering it anyway but gimbals are still heavy and don't seem to be getting lighter until some new technology comes along.
 
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