Re: wrokflow; red to color to film

Bill,

I have done this workflow and the results are beautiful. It has to be a combination of how you expose the camera, how you export the footage and how you do the DI.

I can not share the exact workflow because it would be unfair to the post house CINEBYTE in TORONTO, who did the film out. We put a lot of R&D and testing into this and the method does not involve ANY third party software (crimson, monkey extract, etc.).

There are about several (18 I think) ways to export your DPX files. They tested each one and put them all out to film to see what would translate best.

To me. The smartest thing to do with RED footage is to hand it to people who actually know a lot about this stuff and have been pushing pixels to film for a long time.

It's not the simple matter of providing some DPX sequences and expecting a 35mm miracle. Get who ever is going to do your film out to do the file extraction. It's smarter and will save you money.

They can conform a feature in two days there and the frames will be accurate.

unless you really understand film color space and how film responds to the file you are writing to it, you might not be getting the best out of your R3D movie.

David




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