One thing I’ve been wondering about since getting a RED was what I was going to do about workflow. REDCINE-X Pro is a really nice (and free) color grading application. But you’re not going to do secondary color correction or really complicated masking/keying in it (yet). So how does one use it in conjunction with a NLE? Do you render out files, take them and edit them in Premiere Pro, and then color correct files that you’ve already rendered? Don’t you sort of lose the whole idea of a RAW workflow by doing that? Turns out there’s a better way.
If you have Adobe Premiere Pro CS5.5, the changes you make to your shots in REDCINE update in Premiere Pro losslessly. Premiere Pro correctly interprets the metadata and you can then use, say, Colorista for secondary color correction on top of the native R3D files. But while CS5.5 includes native RED ONE support, it does not include native EPIC/SCARLET support, so you first need to download and install Adobe’s RED EPIC Importer. Here’s Wide Open Camera’s Chris Marino with a workflow tutorial; note the lossless CS5.5 integration isn’t covered until the end:
RED Workflow: How to Get REDCINE-X and Premiere Pro Working Together Seamlessly
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http://www.facebook.com/KristopherFitzgerald Kris Fitzgerald
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http://blogfreako.com Chad Kukahiko
