Updated info on ffmpeg r3d conversion

[Jon Thomasberg]

I am trying to get right a auto-transcode script to make prores dailies of R3Ds once injested into our NAS (running FreeBSD). I read up and it seems that after the .r3d v3 codec that there have been issues with ffmpeg R3D input. Anyone have any good info on this?

TIA,

 

[Rob Wentz]

Sorry to ping an old thread here but for what its worth...

I also was hoping to be able to get somewhere with using ffmpeg to create proxies of R3Ds before archiving them to LTO.

Most recent tracks of any movement on this topic I found have been silent for a while:

http://video.stackexchange.com/questions/12830/how-to-work-with-r3d-and-rmd-files-ffmpeg
https://trac.ffmpeg.org/ticket/2690

According to FFMPEG, .R3D files through version 3 are supported, version 4 has a new colorspace and is not yet supported.

It does sound like there was a good bit of hope and movement towards v4 support with FFmpeg introducing support for 8 & 16 bit per pixel bayer formats, a previous roadblock besides developer perception of a highly experimental and under development color science that would need to be kept up with in order to support R3D.

That was 17 months ago. I'm not sure where it's at now but it might not hurt if folks looking for this support send a ping to ffmpeg-user list which is read by the devs.