Re: ALEXA vs. RED?

Gary, are you seriously suggesting to cut a longform with the original footage from either RED One or D-21?

The GlueTools ARRIRAW conform tool for FCP is even being updated for the Alexa release and will allow full control of the codec within FCP, and this is something that cannot be done with R3D files with out going into Color or out of FCP into another app.

I get D-21 from s.two DFR. It is RAW in DPX wrapper. Robert Monaghan explicitly refused to support this format in either ARRIRAW Toolkit or Cineon/DPX Toolkit. But that's not the point. I'm talking about pulling out exactly the frames that went into the cut from the back up storage. There is a choice of tools for R3D right now. There is one promised to be released this summer for D-21.

OK, forget R3D and ARRIRAW. Let's talk about regular RGB DPX. Let's say you have a film edited and scanned, ready for grading or graded already. Then you have a trailer too. How would you pull the 3,000 frames used in the trailer out of 180,000 that makes your film? What software?