REDCODE and Adobe After Effects

[casey warren]

It'll be interesting to see whether we can just drop After Effects from the workflow. I've used it for years, but so far have found the beta for AE CS3 a major disappointment, as it feels like the same old product, with no speed improvement at all. I'm looking to do my colour work in Color, and to do as much comp work in Motion 3 as possible. Until now, Motion has felt a bit like a toy compared to AE, but I'm hoping that will change.

Yeah, beta AE CS3....seemed really exciting on paper, but did not prove to be anything like I had hoped for. I am to hoping that Apple's Motion 3 has stepped it up a couple notches. The new 3D workflow seems promising.

However, AE is still a very reasonably priced program and has a lot of functionality in all areas of filmmaking/motion graphics.

[Nick Shaw]

Once it is uncompressed in the cache while working on it, it will remain as uncompressed on the hard disks, isn't it?

That is correct

And how is it possible that After Effects will read this codec? are you talking about a REDCODE ability to present itself as an RGB full quality 4K?

After FX will read material from any Quicktime codec which is installed on the machine, as REDCODE will be. As for REDCODE presenting itself as full quality 4k RGB, that's what I'm hoping for. As Rob said earlier, whether that will be the case is yet to be decided. If it is not, you will need to run the REDCODE media through REDCINE to convert it to a (preferably) uncompressed 4k format that After FX can read

[studio.dmd]

Ok, I understand.
Thank you!

[Stephen Gentle]

So, you would:

1. Shoot 4K Redcode to RED-DRIVE
2. Either
a) Export uncompressed image sequence from REDCINE, Or
b) Import the REDCODE footage directly with the Quicktime plugin
3. Composite, colour correct etc.

Right? That makes the most sense to me (unless you want 120fps @ 2K)

[studio.dmd]

Ok, it's clear, but, only a thing:

It seems that I didn't understand this:

...Or
b) Import the REDCODE footage directly with the Quicktime plugin

What is this plugin?

[Bachman]

Yeah, Im pretty sure you can bring in almost any size format into AE so long as it's wrapped in the right codec. The issue will be dealing with the shear demands of working with 4k uncompressed squences. Hmm brings back memories of rendering on my 486 with 16mb

[Rob Lohman]

REDCODE RAW is a QuickTime codec. So you can load that straight into any QT enabled application. We're still looking at quality & resolutions supported (ie testing) etc.

Otherwise you'll want to load an image sequence outputted by REDCINE indeed. And yes, you will need a speedy RAID array if you want to work with such an image sequence at any speed. That's sort of the game at 4K (and perhaps 2K).

[studio.dmd]

Ok, thank you all.