Please help a Mac noob

[Brent J. Craig]

So I finally made the switch from being a lifelong PC guy to buying a Macbook Pro.

Today we shot some Red tests so I now have some footage to play with.

The problem is I can't get any of the proxies to play. The R3D's work fine in RedAlert and Redcine.

I have already downgraded to Quicktime 7.3.1 using the instructions someone thoughtfully posted here.

When I first opened an _F proxy today Quicktime took me to a codec download page, but didn't tell me which one to download.

All 4 of the proxies simply show a white screen when I play them.

Footage was shot with Build 15 v2.1.4

Everything else seems to work fine in Quicktime, just not the camera proxies.

Thanks for your help.

[Dylan Macleod, CSC]

Thanks for a fabulous day Crewpix!

Have you seen this thread?

http://www.reduser.net/forum/showthread.php?t=10752

Apparently if you are running Leopard you can use 7.4? I think?

Let me know how it goes...I'm going to pick up my new MacbookPro...possibly tomorrow?

Dylan Macleod
Cinematographer
Toronto, Canada
www.dylanmacleod.com

[Jörgen Persson]

Download the Redcode quicktime codecs from HERE

[Brent J. Craig]

Download the Redcode quicktime codecs from HERE

From the page with the scary looking Red 404 Error spider?!? Eeeeek!

[Brent J. Craig]

Have you seen this thread?
http://www.reduser.net/forum/showthread.php?t=10752
Apparently if you are running Leopard you can use 7.4? I think?
Let me know how it goes...I'm going to pick up my new MacbookPro...possibly tomorrow?[/url]

I just saw that today, but I downgraded last week before I had any footage to test with so I don't know if it would have worked.

I guess you can let me know when you get your new MBP!

[Brent J. Craig]

Wow. Just saw this on Red.com - that's new!

"If you are working with RED ALERT! and Final Cut Pro under Leopard (OS 10.5.2) RED recommends that users run QuickTime 7.4.1"

OK. I'm gonna let Software Update do it's nasty business and try QT 7.4.1.

Now I can finally rent movies from iTunes. Yay! Here goes...

[NateWeaver]

Crewpix, if you bought a new MBP, then it had 10.5 (Leopard) on it, and there was no need to downgrade you Quicktime install. There's a lot of confusion on this.

Did you download the Quicktime codec? You need that.

http://www.red.com/support/download/22

[Brent J. Craig]

Crewpix, if you bought a new MBP, then it had 10.5 (Leopard) on it, and there was no need to downgrade you Quicktime install. There's a lot of confusion on this.

Did you download the Quicktime codec? You need that.

Confusion is right! I think I've read every message on RU and this is the first I've heard of it working on Leopard!

Just downloaded the Red QT codec (news to me as well). It wants me to reboot... If I'm not back in 5 minutes send out a search party!

Thanks.

[Jeff Kilgroe]

Install the QT plugin from RED.COM/SUPPORT. If you are running Leopard, install all updates including QT 7.4.1 and the graphics update 1.0.

Try this thread for some additional details.

No matter what, you're in for a bumpy ride. :)

[Brent J. Craig]

No matter what, you're in for a bumpy ride. :)

I would expect nothing less (I'm coming from PC land, remember? Do I gotta edit the registry or something?)