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Hello,

Just added a new workflow paper on my website detailing steps to perform an online inside Final Cut Pro finishing using the Cineform codec.
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DPX is used for transferring film scans, or now R3D plates. It's uncompressed 10 bit log color.

OpenEXR is usually used for rendered 3D elements or other intermediate stages during post...

thanks for writing this, lots of good info, however you're missing an important issue in step 28.

You are aiming to a 10 bit master, but FCP will truncate your color information to 8 bit if you...

as a software dev myself facing the same issue, chasing Apples release cycle is a never ending task.

sometimes the sane thing to do is to ask users to stay on a known good config, RED doesn't have...

I would recommend people not get the Nvidia 8800 and hold off for an ATI HD 3870 card. The drivers are generally better on ATI and the 3870 has much faster core image processing than the 8800 which...

I agree with the others, wait. But I can say that the Nvidia 8800 has many driver problems and is not fast for core image processing.

The ATI HD 3870 512MB mac edition card will be out very soon...

crucial.com for mac ram, never let me down yet.

this sort of thing is where you should just use the proxies. give the producer a copy of the R3D file and the accompanying quicktime proxies in a folder together (either from the camera or red...

my suggested workflow is documented here:

http://www.coremelt.com/support/workflow/

export DPX and use scratch if 10 bit YUV ain't good enough for you....

if you want to do a filmout then you should try and process at 2K but there are a million variations of 2K depending on the exact aspect ratio.

the safest bet is 2048x1556, that will allow you to...

Hey there

I need to collect some more detailed information about what mac users are using in video production. It would really help me out if you could take 30 seconds to click the poll answers...

it looks to me like Crimson can be configured to do this.

Read the section on "match rules" in the Wiki:
http://www.redhax.net/wiki/Crimson_Workflow#Match_Rule

I'd suggest you do a cuts only edit on the quicktime proxies to trim it down then export an XML and use Crimson to do a reconform in RedCine and convert only the actually used footage in the cut to...

i'm pretty sure apple knows all about what's needed. Converting the pipeline to enable RGB rendering in float is a big job, but it's a pretty safe bet that FCP7 will do that.

no inside...

10 bit color and gpu processing are already possible in quicktime, quicktime to coreimage GPU processing already works.

what specifically were you wanting to do?

just wanted to bump this, would really help me if a few more people could take a few seconds to click the poll answer

appreciated

to clarify all my own (coremelt) plugins already work in leopard and already work better in leopard than they do in tiger. I'm trying to decide when it's appropriate to make new versions require...

Hi there,

I'm trying to judge for future releases of my plugin packs if it's appropriate to make the next versions only work on systems running leopard. There are good reasons to do so, the main...

yep, gluetools is correctly a "cheating" codec in FCP it claims to be YUV and then writes RGB data to disk. This is what Cineform also does, not sure about the KONA RGB codec. This is to get around...

no, you cannot set FCP to render in high precision when you are using an RGB codec * You can only set FCP to render in high precision when you use a YUV codec then everything will render in 32 bit...

You can process everything in 32 Bit YUV inside Final Cut Pro and use either 10 Bit YUV ProRes or 12 Bit RGB Cineform as your sequence settings.
You may or may not notice any artifacts from the...

Are you sure of this? Just because the "render in high precision" color box is ticked does not mean that FCP is capable of doing all the effects you asked it to do in high precision.

see my...

Yes, there are several plugin packs, PolyChrome transitions, Motion Pack, and Editing Pack.

All of these are 40 plugins each, all the effects render in high precision YUV, and they are $99 each.
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Hello,

based on new info from Apple and RED I've updated my 10 bit FCP online workflow articles here:
http://www.coremelt.com/support/workflow/

Many thanks to Graeme Nattress and Mike Seymour...

Hello, thanks to everyone for the comments and suggestions here.

my plugin pack of 40 transitions for FCP, all of which render in 10 bit color (or better) is now available.

full details here:...