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Subject: Re: [AE] OT: RED workflow
From: Chris Zwar <chris@chriszwar.com>
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Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2012 09:20:36 +1000
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I won't bother re-typing stuff I've already written, so here's a few =
comments that you might find interesting:

http://chriszwar.com/wordpress/gallery-and-case-studies/

In this case I'm talking about Alexa footage, but the real issue is not =
the camera used, but the colour management workflow.

Red footage is great and is about as good as you can expect these days - =
Red and Alexa each have slight strengths and weaknesses but really, =
compared to most other cameras it's really splitting hairs because they =
produce great pictures.  If you're doing keying you'll want to de-noise =
the footage first but that's kinda universal too.

The workflow I mention in the link above solves a few problems by =
ensuring all colour correction is done by one operator looking at one =
calibrated monitor and places the bottleneck at the very first stage of =
post-production.  This might sound counter-intuitive but it means that =
once the grading is done, it's done and everyone else can get on with it =
and not worry about colour management at all.  It means a few technical =
considerations are taken care of in one place, by one skilled operator.  =
Then compers can get on with comping, and not worry about colour at all.

It's an interesting approach that I haven't seen before, that's why I =
thought it was worth mentioning even if it doesn't work for you.

-Chris

On 24/04/2012, at 9:04 AM, Phil Spitler wrote:

> I'm wondering what tools people are using with Red these days.=20
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> We recently did a project and decided to do all our Red color =
correction in our Smoke suite.=20
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> We ended up with a huge bottle neck so now I'm looking into =
alternatives that would allow use to use our Mac workstations to color =
correct or Red projects.
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> Does Resolve on the Mac work well with Red footage? How about FCP / =
Color?
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> Would it help workflow if we had Red Rocket in some of our boxes?
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> Any thoughts?
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> Thanks.=20
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> Phil
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> Phil Spitler
> www.bonfirelabs.com
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