RED under the Vegas Ad

Coursedesign wrote on 11/25/2007, 5:35 PM

DV magazine has a nice story about some people's first ownership experiences with a RED camera.

I thought it was an unusually clear intro for anyone who is wondering what the RED camera is about.

You can read it here, right under a pretty nice ad for Vegas 8.

Comments

john-beale wrote on 11/25/2007, 8:41 PM

"The $900 Red Drive (two small RAIDed drives in a camera-mountable enclosure), which should be shipping by the time you read this, will allow for two hours of continuous shooting."

Well... not quite. :-) I agree the article is a good summary. For the most up-to-date details you can always browse through www.reduser.net

It's fun to watch the latest tech, but is anyone editing on Vegas actually working with Red footage now, or planning to? How would that work, given Vegas can't export any standard still or video format at > 8 bits per pixel currently ? (True, there's 10-bit Sony YUV, but it's not exactly a standard outside of Vegas).

Several people on Reduser have been asking about Vegas workflows for Red, but so far I've seen no real answers. http://www.reduser.net/forum/showthread.php?t=6022

farss wrote on 11/25/2007, 11:19 PM

There was a clip posted on reduser by a Vegas user.
Export out of RedAlert as 1080 and edit in Vegas. I'd be surprised if it didn't work. You could also possibly export a 2K tiff sequence and hope a lot that something didn't come unglued.
Also Cineform have Prospect4K in beta, that I doubt will work in Vegas.
What I'd really like to see Vegas handle is ProspectRaw2K or Redcode.

Bob.

rmack350 wrote on 11/25/2007, 11:34 PM

I've exported to the BMD 10-bit codec and I've exported (admittedly useless) 32-bit/channel uncompressed AVI files.

The BMD 10-bit RGB looks a bit funky in Vegas, but as a proof of concept, yes, you can export in other 10-bit formats besides Sony YUV.

I haven't been following Red too closely (we were on the list but had to stop cutting bait and start fishing with DVCPro-HD) but I was under the impression that they were developing a workflow for FCP and that's all. Can you acquire and/or edit Red media in any PC based NLE?

Rob Mack

john-beale wrote on 11/26/2007, 7:14 PM

The Assimilate system runs on a PC. I think. AFAIK it's sold as a software-hardware bundle. (it definitely costs a bundle, but exact price has not been publicly disclosed.)

http://www.assimilateinc.com/

farss wrote on 11/26/2007, 8:54 PM

Ball park figure USD $30K, inc Supermicro PC.

Bob.