Re: Ugly ProRes422HQ export, color banding, pan judder

I was working with the _F proxies because all of the ProRes transcodes I made out of REDAlert were washed out and quantized. They look terrible and are absolutely unusable.

Also, that workflow was recommended by David Battistella in the REDuser.net forum (seven posts from top): http://reduser.net/forum/showthread.php?t=34206&highlight=ProRes+Bert

As for FW800, the bad ProRes export and the frame stutter happen when I export and playback from my desktop as well.

I'll install an eSata card, but it was expressed by a few professionals I spoke to that FW800 is sufficient. One of those individuals edits raw R3D's in Avid over FW800, which surprised me...

I really don't think this is all down to my system. There's something else going on with the washed out ProRes because a good number of other users are experiencing it as well: http://www.reduser.net/forum/showthread.php?t=44323

2 x 2.26GHz Quad-core Intel'09 MacPro / 8GB ram / OS X 10.5 / Black Magic Decklink HD extreme 3 / G-Raid2 1.5TB FW800 / Final Cut Studio 2 / Final Cut Pro 6