Lightroom 4 works with r3ds...

[Jeremy Neish]

Follow up... bummer, you can't use the develop tool on video. You can do quick develop, but some features are disabled, and export options are very limited. Unfortunately the support is pretty basic. Oh so close... :( But hey, it's progress.

[Jeremy Neish]

Bug Report: I'm getting a lot of errors while it tries to build previews in the import window. They look something like this:

dynamiclinkmediaserver has encountered an error.
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I'm trying to import some really old .r3d files, don't know if that's what's causing the errors. The message box pops up for every single file, so I have to press "Continue" many times before I can start the import.

EDIT: Actually it only pops up for about half the files, and on the ones it does it says "Preview Unavailable for this file."

[Josh Beadle]

I'm not seeing anywhere in print Adobe stating support for R3D files in LR. Am I missing?

Supported File Formats

• JPEG
• TIFF (8 bit, 16 bit)
• PSD (8 bit, 16 bit)
• DNG
• Raw (Please visit http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshop/cameraraw.html for a full list of raw file support. File support for Lightroom 4 beta, aligns with Lightroom 3.6 and Camera Raw 6.6)

http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/849/cpsid_84934.html

[David McGavran]

I'm not seeing anywhere in print Adobe stating support for R3D files in LR. Am I missing?

Supported File Formats

• JPEG
• TIFF (8 bit, 16 bit)
• PSD (8 bit, 16 bit)
• DNG
• Raw (Please visit http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshop/cameraraw.html for a full list of raw file support. File support for Lightroom 4 beta, aligns with Lightroom 3.6 and Camera Raw 6.6)

http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/849/cpsid_84934.html

The labs release of LR 4 supports a ton of video formats, including r3d

Cheers

Dave

[Mikey Piliero]

You can actually use most of the Develop tools, but you need to do a work around. You can take a snap shot of the video when viewing it in lightroom. Then you take that jpeg snapshot into Develop. Make your edits and save it as a preset. Then you can apply that preset to the video.

However there are some huge limitations that don't seem to have a work around. The highest quality export is 1920x1080, and there doesn't seem to be a way to export as a Tiff. So unfortunately it seems that it wouldn't be useful for either video or screen grabs at the moment.

Bums me out. I would really like to grade the R3d in Lightroom as oppose to RedCine-X.

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[David Jean Schweitzer]

Thanks for sharing your tips, Mikey. I think I am about to upgrade to LR 4 thanks to this thread!

[Mikey Piliero]

Hey No problem!

[Les Dittert]

Photoshop cs6 also reads r3d files as a video.
This seems fantastic at first, but then I noticed that it is 8 bits. The 'RAW' shooting advantage is gone.
I am not a LR user, but I'd bet it is 8 bits as well.
So no high bit depth color grading advantage. People who use the RAW bit depth would have noticed that right away.
Correct me if I'm wrong.

[Greg Barley]

I purchased the upgrade to LR4 a little over a week ago... used LR3 for all my photography. I think being able to grade raw .r3d's in Lightroom is asking a bit much for what this program is.

Just to be able to catalog, and fully PREVIEW all of my RED footage is enough reason to buy it!! Its currently the best (and only??) option to catalog footage that is on my archive server, which I shut down when I don't need to access it for long periods of time. Lightroom allows me to see and preview every clip that I've shot, even if I don't have access to it... enough said!

[Jim Collins]

Interesting. I was just up at the Photoshop Expo in DC this afternoon and the Adobe Rep demonstrating LR4 was not aware that it supported R3D files and told me flat out that it did not and wouldn't any time soon. I guess they ought to brief their own people better.

They had a dozen or so computers set up running LR4 and Photoshop that you could play with. The main new feature I was interested in was the mapping feature for geotagging in LR4 but none of the computers was connected to the internet so they couldn't download the maps so the whole mapping function didn't work. When I suggested that they ought to have enough maps stored locally on the computer that you could use the feature when you aren't connected to the internet they seemed to think that was a pretty dumb suggestion. Sure made an unimpressive demo.