Edit RED Footage in Avid Media Composer

Thanks for the step-by-step Michael... that should help a lot of people.

Posted by Scott Simmons on Tuesday, April 1, 2008 @ 02:38 PM

Thanks Michael. Still an arduous process but at least we know there is a way with our Avid products.

Posted by Scott Witthaus on Tuesday, April 1, 2008 @ 07:32 PM

Is there any way to work in an offline onine workflow.

1.) Transcode to offline Avid DNXHD 36
2.) Use Metacheater to create the ALE
3.) Batch Import, Edit Video
4.) Decompose Final Sequence
5.) Conform to DNXHD 175: only the segments used in the edit? It doesn't seem this is possible...yet.

It seems this conform step is missing, requiring you to transcode all footage to an Online quality level before editing unless you want to conform in Assimilate Scratch.
Hopefully, this changes.

As a side note,
It is unfortunate that the quicktime codec and Red Alert! is not yet available for Windows. This is currently a Mac only solution since Red Cine (available on Windows) doesn't pass on the timecode information in the Quicktime Export (based on some forum speak.

I find it odd that Red chose Final Cut as their primary editing tool (Mac Only) and then went with a PC Only Finishing tool (assimilate scratch).

Thank you for posting the current workflow. It can only become easier:)

Posted by Robert Bowlus on Thursday, April 3, 2008 @ 04:07 PM

The workflow described here is for mc on intel mac.Is there a workflow for mcsoft
on pc platform?

Posted by Ronen on Friday, May 30, 2008 @ 07:06 AM

Hey

I've been following the steps above, but in RedAlert, it doesn't seem to do anything when I export the quicktime?

I've managed to import into avid using the quicktime reference files that are generated and already on the flash card. Is there any reason for me not the just create an ALE from these files and import them?

Thanks

Posted by Fiona Cairns on Monday, June 2, 2008 @ 08:00 AM

You can use the proxies created by the camera the same way - again, all of this is for Max OSX because of the QT not being available on Windows. The only Windows solution is to use RedCine but it has some limitations right now as far as choosing different DNxHD rates.

Michael

Posted by MichaelP on Thursday, June 5, 2008 @ 03:33 PM

Thanks for that.

I just had one more question. Has anyone else noticed that the exposure seems to change when you import the files into Avid. It looks about a stop brighter then the quicktime ref files?

Any ideas?

Thanks

Fiona

Posted by Fiona Cairns on Monday, June 9, 2008 @ 10:40 AM

do you have to have media composer software? Or does this step to step apply to DV Xpress Pro as well?

Posted by Kohl on Tuesday, July 8, 2008 @ 02:03 PM

Michael,
There is one problem. Unable to import files which as audio in QT reference to Avid Media Composer / Xpress Pro 5.8.

Posted by Gopal Balaji on Wednesday, July 9, 2008 @ 03:38 AM

The audio issue is solved with the latest Red Alert with an Avid compatible audio check box. Also, the next maintenance release of the software will support the 32bit packed audio.

Xpress DV will support these workflows as well.

Michael

Posted by MichaelP on Thursday, July 10, 2008 @ 10:20 PM

help me plegeeee

Posted by ganeshe on Sunday, December 7, 2008 @ 01:59 PM