How RED is RAW

[tj williams]

The Nikon/Canon etc. still cameras put out a raw file. In Photoshop it is possible to make a correction and batch correct a large number of frames... Thus if your motion camera makes raw pictures.... maybe Photoshop is a Davinci???

Can Photoshop and similiar programs see the RED RAW file?

[Chris Kenny]

RAW formats are generally vendor-specific. If RED documents the format, maybe some third-parties will support it, but nothing is going to work with it out of the box.

[Corrado Silveri]

Please, take a look here:

http://www.reduser.net/forum/showthread.php?t=528

http://www.reduser.net/forum/showthread.php?t=598

[tj williams]

Elcurado
Thanks for the lead and interesting Adobe article. So if they are using the beyer pattern off a chip which is used in a still camera then the raw won't be the same as that brand of still camera? So are flavors of raw proprietary?

[Graeme Nattress]

Yes, all flavours of RAW are proprietary. Ours, especially so because it's moving images, not still, and REDCODE RAW compressed, rather than uncompressed like most DSLRs.

Graeme

[tj williams]

Graeme
Interesting education on "raw" could Red Cine output uncompressed raw images as for instance an animation sequence of canon raw stills? I work on spots and it might be very cool to have all that ability to play with looks across a short sequence! REalizing that it would quickly eat up disk realestate..

[Graeme Nattress]

Conversion to DNG would be theoretically possible, but not to Canon CRW format. And yes, 16bit tiffs eat up your hard drive. I'm working on a lot of RED files and my hard drives are bursting because I need to render them uncompressed to help me examine the effects of REDCODE compression and other details.

Graeme

[Michael Schrengohst]

Conversion to DNG would be theoretically possible, but not to Canon CRW format. And yes, 16bit tiffs eat up your hard drive. I'm working on a lot of RED files and my hard drives are bursting because I need to render them uncompressed to help me examine the effects of REDCODE compression and other details.

Graeme

That sounds like fun....I wish I could see what you see!!

[Graeme Nattress]

Sometimes you don't want to see things I see, or else you'll be awake at night thinking on algorithms, or dreaming bayer patterns when you do get to sleep.

Graeme