using Final Cut Studio 2 with Red One build 20

[Magnus Gray]

Hi All,

I'm new to this forum but shot on the red a few times. I've just finished a shoot on a hired camera and now in post realised that it has build 20 and I'm using FCP Studio 2. I'm having a few issues that I haven't faced before.

Can anyone tell me the reason studio 2 only supports up to build 16 and what problem's i'm likely to encounter.

Many Thanks,
Magnus

[James Milner-Smyth]

Hi Magnus

Could you describe your problems? We are shooting build 21 from many cameras and still use Studio 2 etc on some of our edit stations with no problems. Red shoots RAW and there is not much difference in that between the camera builds where that is concerned: what is different is how well we can process that Raw. Red concentrate on the latest versions of software and FCP 6 is now getting to be "legacy" so rightly they are updating the Studio 3 plugins but that is more to allow for the improved color science.

I wouldn't think that (without you describing your problems) they are likely related to the camera builds versus your FCP versions. While for some projects we edit off proxies, in general , for an easy edit life we follow the tried and trusted offline/online workflow model that we have used for 10 years. Make life easy on your edit machines!

1. Batch convert your rushes to Prorez for a 1080 HD OFFLINE at 1/4 rez for a combo of speed/decent quality if you don't have RED Rocket™™™. (We use Clipfinder for this so far but are switching to RedCine-X with Red-Rocket)
2. Reconform using a full-debayer on just what you need for your online/grade. If you are doing this yourself in Color, use Clipfinder to reconform your XML to the Red proxies, import this to FCP, send it to Color, fix the looping bug (Nick Shaw and Hans Duan's clever trick), re-open the project and grade from the Raw.
If you are just working in FCP, you could use log and transfer on just your used rushes, or use Monkey Extract (well worth the money) to control Redline to do a full debayer to new Prorez or uncompressed files. (As Jim points out it is a good idea to get the best out of any Red rushes by tweaking them to the best colour balance (and colour space and gamma and now FLUT™™™) before any conversion away from raw.)

Best

James