Premiere XML Workflow question

[Kurt Harder]

Hello,

Just wondering about export settings for Red footage from Resolve 8. I'm editing in Premiere Pro and have brought my timelines into Resolve via XML. When I go to export it just gives me a bunch of quicktime/DPX codec options, so I'm not really sure what to go with.

Is it possible to simply export .r3d's from resolve with updated grades, or do you need to transcode within the program when reverting back to Premiere?

Thanks!

Kurt

[Peter Chamberlain]

Hi, RED offer r3d decoding in their SDK so we can't render r3d files. I suggest you render the graded shots to ProRes and export an XML to relink back in Premiere.
Peter

[John Tissavary]

There is, currently, no such thing as rendering to r3d in any software. It is a format only or recording Red camera sensor data. The output from any post process will require some conversion process to an output format, even if working natively from the r3d files during editing / grading.

For visually lossless & uncompressed, 10-bit log dpx image file sequences are the standard. Otherwise, as Peter mentioned, Prores and DNxHD are good Quicktime based options.

[Uli Plank]

ProRes 4444 in particular, saves lots of space against DPX.

[Kurt Harder]

I'll go with Prores 4444.

Cheers!

[Kurt Harder]

Another question;

When I go to export my clips with the Final Cut XML preset, it doesn't include an actual XML file, and when I go to export an XML from my conform tab, it still references my original .r3d files instead of the new prores files. How do you go about getting a new xml to reference the new .mov files?

Best,
Kurt

[Rohit Gupta]

There's an export XML in the conform page.

[Kurt Harder]

When you export an XML from the conform page it just references the original ungraded .R3D files, not the newly exported graded files.

[Rob Ruffo]

There is, currently, no such thing as rendering to r3d in any software. It is a format only or recording Red camera sensor data. The output from any post process will require some conversion process to an output format, even if working natively from the r3d files during editing / grading.

For visually lossless & uncompressed, 10-bit log dpx image file sequences are the standard. Otherwise, as Peter mentioned, Prores and DNxHD are good Quicktime based options.

You can import the XML to Redcine, and export a trimmed version there - Red Cine does export trimmed R3Ds - but no other soft does that I know of.

[Rohit Gupta]

When you export an XML from the conform page it just references the original ungraded .R3D files, not the newly exported graded files.

This is not correct. Did you save the project after rendering?