New to RED Workflow with Apple

[Robert Oliver Bohannon]

Hi everyone,

I'm new to the Red workflow, just having got my Scarlet a little while ago, f*cking love that camera! I've got a problem with post, though. I just finished shooting a short and given the footage to the editor, who is also new to Red, and we're having trouble importing the footage into Final Cut. I read here and on other forums that Final Cut's log and transfer tool will recognize r3ds and transcode them to prores, but that isn't working here. I've basically googled everything I can possibly think of, and I still can't find a solid explanation. Are we missing some plug-in for FCP? Or is there another route? I'd transcode the footage in redcine-x but I can't figure out how to install the prores codec.

Any and all help would be greatly appreciated!

[Jeff Whitehurst]

Welcome Robert,
You need the Final Cut Studio Installer and whitepaper found on this page. Once you install the plugin the trancode/import process is very similar to importing numerous other file formats into FCS.
https://www.red.com/downloads

[Bob Gundu]

If you have FCP installed you should have the proRes codec. If you're going to go that route, you could do your transcoding in Redcine-X Pro. Check out the learning tools on the Red site for more info.

http://www.red.com/learn

[Robert Oliver Bohannon]

Thanks guys!

I think I've got things sorted out.