Re: Workflow Suggestions for COLOR having cut ProRes and now having to use R3D originals for CC.

Clipfinder can read a Final Cut XML file and replace the sources with either the R3d files or QT proxies. In Color, if the program sees that the source is a QT proxy for a R3d file, it automatically accesses the R3d file natively. What all of this means is that the following steps will get you from a ProRes FCP timeline to native R3d files in Color (assuming you didn't change file names, and also assuming that all of the original R3d files are under one master folder and in their original RDM/RDC directory structure):

1. Cut using the ProRes files and export the timeline as an XML.
2. Open Clipfinder and select Tools->Run Conform on FCP XML File. Select the source XML (the one you just exported from FCP) and a destination XML (call it "ConformXML" or whatever you want). Enable "Replace Clips with " and select one of the proxy resolutions (I usually use H, but you can use whatever you want). Add the directory that is the master folder in which the original R3d files are located. Click OK and go back to FCP.
3. Import the Conform XML you just made and open the sequence. You should see a duplicate of the ProRes sequence, but with all of the clips being the "H" Red proxies instead of the ProRes files.
4. Send the sequence to Color.
5. Once you've opened it in Color and confirmed that everything is there, save the project.
6. Go back into Clipfinder and select Tools->Fix Looping Bug in Color Project, and select the Color project you just saved.
7. Go back into Color and reopen the project.

Doing these steps will ensure that you are color correcting directly from the R3d files but avoiding a bug that results from using spanned files in Color. You should also now find the "Red" tab enabled in each clip in the Color timeline.

Good luck.