QuickTime REDCODE support explained (maybe)

[Chris Kenny]

I've written a blog post (http://www.indie4k.com/archives/40) in which I attempt to lay out my understanding of how REDCODE QuickTime support will work. Maybe some folks will find it useful. I'd also be interested in Red folks pointing out any inaccuracies, because (as I say in the post), I've synthesized the information there from a bunch of different posts by Red folks here, and it's possible I've misunderstood some things.

Thanks.

[Sanjin Jukic]

Great man, thanks and just continue.

[Rob Lohman]

Reads good to me. We're still working on the QT codec & integration so some things might change (only for the better, of course), but the general workflow will be the same!

[DeaneThrussell]

This answer a lot of question for me...thanks. but this quicktime support will it also work when creating OMFI

[Rob Lohman]

I'm not sure exactly what you're asking here. Can you elaborate?

[DeaneThrussell]

say i ve got my file in final cut and export a omfi which link to the 4k red media will i be able to open that on any piece of software that quicktime based even if the software only work SD and then bring it back to final cut via OMFI and go back to working 4k
like a offline

[Antoine Baumann]

Thanks for Chris for the blog post.

Does it mean that it will possible to edit the 4k redcode raw in any nle accepting qt codec and see the raw as rgb or yuv?

How did they edit for Crosing the Line, knowing they were using FCP 5.x? Did they have to process the redcode raw files in an non raw codec to do the editing?

Thanks,
antoine.

[Chris Kenny]

Reads good to me. We're still working on the QT codec & integration so some things might change (only for the better, of course), but the general workflow will be the same!

Thanks, Rob.

[Rob Lohman]

Deane: we're still working on such workflows, more on that later.


Does it mean that it will possible to edit the 4k redcode raw in any nle accepting qt codec and see the raw as rgb or yuv?

Yes, that should be the case.


How did they edit for Crosing the Line, knowing they were using FCP 5.x? Did they have to process the redcode raw files in an non raw codec to do the editing?

No, as indicated before you can load the files just fine in FCP 5. And that's what they did to edit the offline (at 1K [on the fly extracted from 4K]).

[Antoine Baumann]

Thanks a lot Rob for your explanation.

Sound very good to me :-))

antoine

[Rocco Schult]

..even if the software only work SD...

1st: good work Chris.
2nd: I guess you'd have to work with the SD-QT initially, if your destination software works in SD only as you said. Maybe you can exchange the QTs in case you go back to FCP for a 2k online, if they'd have the same name.