Native Vegas support for R3D files

Elizabeth Lowrey wrote on 8/18/2008, 4:28 PM
As a reservation holder who will probably have the RED ONE in hand in a couple of months, I would be ecstatic if Sony would at least announce upcoming support for native R3D files, even if implementation remains a ways out. I love Vegas and would hate to have to change editors, but I will do so if Sony and/or 3rd parties don't come through with something to rival the emerging Premiere workflow for this camera. I'm open to whatever Cineform might offer, if it's fast enough and can deal with full 4K frames and full color space (both of which are currently still an issue with Vegas), but it's tough to beat dragging a file from a RED drive or CF card directly onto a timeline.

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Elizabeth Lowrey wrote on 8/18/2008, 4:30 PM
Whoops. This was supposed to post as a reply to another thread. Looks like I hit the wrong button.

In any case, here's hoping Sony will see fit to raise max resolution to at least 4K and come up with native R3D support.
Seth wrote on 8/18/2008, 4:46 PM
Premier has actually had support for RED via Cineform for a little while now, but only through the use of Prospect 2k (now 4k) which has a fundamentally different plugin architecture from anything that SCS has allowed Vegas to have. Prospect is much more tightly integrated into Premier than NEO is in Vegas. (NEO doesn't actually run inside of Vegas at all)

SCS does not seem to be interested in Digital Cinema. SCS seems to be more interested in bolstering the usability of their product for their current market, which is great. What you're asking them to do must seem very risky to them.
farss wrote on 8/18/2008, 4:49 PM
If they were to enhance the engine so we could use the Prospect 2K/4K RAW codecs I too would be overjoyed. Sadly I doubt we'll see this happen as RAW processing through Ppro / AE uses the Hardware Abstraction Layer.

Bob.
Cliff Etzel wrote on 8/18/2008, 4:53 PM
Here's my take on all this:

I've done a fair amount of research around content for the web - especially those like myself who need to get video content out quickly - short form projects up to 20-30minutes - this is Vegas' forte'.

As a solo VJ, I can attest that I can work with content much faster than any other NLE to date - Spot even made mention of this recently in another thread. Same content - he more or less wiped the floor with an "Experienced" FCP editor while he edited on Vegas.

If I were doing digital cinema - I'd look to something else - but the web is the future for indie shooters like myself - self contained shooters can't afford to wait around for archaic work flow methodologies that slow shooters like myself down. Vegas has its issues - but I have been fortunate enough to not be too affected by them - and Vegas does what it does for the type of content I shoot and edit very well.

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