best way to crop a shot?

[Chris Pickle]

There are lots of ways to blow up a shot. Its just that when you do, you have to save it out as something else. The R3D file is a read only format, the RED camera is the only device that can write a R3D. So once you bake the clip, you lose the ability to grade native R3Ds. RedCine will reframe in the shot window and then you can output to your choice of formats. It really depends on what you plan to do with it and how you want to finish. If you want to preserve all of the RED data then DPX 10bit Log, or 16bit linear TIFFs will. ProRes 4444 is 12bit same as the R3D is a good choice for both edit and grading. If you are going to layoff to tape for a DiVinci 2k grade then maybe 10bit uncompressed.

The easiest thing is to offline with ProRes or proxies and resize in FCP's motion tab. Then grade in Color and let color bake them straight off the R3Ds. You just have to be careful with keyframes.

STeve

Hi Steve,

Thanks for the info. I'm just going to master in 1080 prores. I did some reframing and blowups on the FCP 720 timeline. I'm now re-rendering my footage to 1080 and reconecting the media in FCP, and I was hoping to do the blowups from the 4ks so that I don't lose resolution. Clipfinder has a bit of a crop window, as does Redrushes, but it seems a bit clunky. I't would be nice to pull a frame from FCP and match it to the 4k outputs to 1080.

Thanks!

[Roberto Lequeux]

;)

[Steve MacMillan]

I think RedCine is the easiest tool to use if you only have a few clips to reframe. Its a very nice interface for reframing, but you need the Crimson Workflow to send it an XML or you open clips manually. Clipfinder will allow you to send it an XML and reconnect to R3Ds but the reframe window is next to useless.

[Chris Pickle]

I think RedCine is the easiest tool to use if you only have a few clips to reframe. Its a very nice interface for reframing, but you need the Crimson Workflow to send it an XML or you open clips manually. Clipfinder will allow you to send it an XML and reconnect to R3Ds but the reframe window is next to useless.

It's just a few shots, so I was planning on sending them manually, and as the entire shots--not with ins and outs. I'll have to get me head wrapped around Redcine. The biggest issue I have when I first starting futzing with it, was that I didn't want to redo my colour science settings and was hoping to just use the rsx file that was set from RedAlert.

[Steve MacMillan]

Why don't you frame the shots in RedCine, write down the number and convert from percentage to pixels, and then perform the reframe in Clipfinder with the RSX?

[Chris Pickle]

Why don't you frame the shots in RedCine, write down the number and convert from percentage to pixels, and then perform the reframe in Clipfinder with the RSX?

Actually that's a great idea. I'll give it a try.

Thanks

[CJ Roy]

Or give rubber monkey a try and render a 4k DPX sequence, then resize in Color.