RED/W AVID MC 5.5 - Best Option for color correction while maintaining RED metadata

[Sebastian Angulo]

Hi to all who is reading this!. . .I thank you for taking the time to answer mt question.

I've recently found my problem to my offline DNxHD 115 RED footage in my AVID clips and Sequence. . .What I finally came up with decomposing my offline Sequence, then making a PULL LIST for the clips in the sequence. I grabbed the Pull list via the EDL Manager in AVID and exported an edl. .. I opened up that edl in REDCINE-X build 454 and exported bew DNxHD 175 clips. . .Opened those clips up in the AVID Media Tool window (after placing the 175 clips in the Avid MediaFiiles folder) .. . Then imported an ale (which I believed didn't work for me). . but still was able to relink the entire sequence, with the exception of 6 clips, 3 of which relate to one raw file as do the other 3 to another.. . .So I just manually placed those back in the sequence hoping that it stays synched with the sound and other edits, so far it looks good.

I've finally cleared that hurdle, but I forgot about color correction? .. . Would it be best to color correct in REDCINE-X and then export that and relink the sequence to AVID? or just color correct in AVID?? .. or export the sequence to a H.264 QT from AVID and take it into After Effects for color correction??? .. Any feedback is much appreciated.
Thanks everyone!. .. Have a great one!

Peace,
Sebastian A
Editor
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[Michael Dalton]

HI Sebastian,

I have been thinking about this myself. You can always import via AMA into Avid, and then transcode, but you have to do a quick grade in redcine first with Redcolour2 (not redcolour 3), and then when your looking to do final CC, to send it to Davinici Resolve and relink to your r3d files. Redcine is not great because you can't do secondary CC's.

I've used Avid - Resolve - Avid work flow before which was great, but have never done it with Red files. You really need to keep it clip based so you can colour correct the individual files.

[MichaelP]

Why not conform in Resolve directly to the R3D, then render out MXF, do final mastering in Avid for titles, and such then deliverables?

Michael

[Fred Beahm]

Make sure if you're transcoding to dnx that you select the SMTPE range option in the export settings. This will make it so the footage doesn't look dark on reference monitors.