Re: ALEXA vs. RED?

Hi Michael,

After doing some reading of this thread, it appears that you are a bit a bit out of the loop on some of the products out there. Understandable, as you need to have a workflow that is solid.

- S.Two has yet to support ARRIRAW v3.0 headers. (This is a big deal.. I have been told that they are completing support for this new file format.)
- Codex and Keisoku Giken do support ARI files, and should also support v3.0 before the Alexa is released.
- Several vendors support ARRIRAW now.

I have been building a brand new suite to tools to retrofit Final Cut Pro to do a proper conform. This is regardless of the image format. The tool is designed to work with DPX frames, as well as ARRIRAW and Phantom Cine files.

Specifically for ARRIRAW (and eventually Phantom Cine files) you can apply ARRI's color science to a ProRes movie, to do Exposure and Color Temperature adjustments
---- without Rendering ----
Once you have your choices are made, you can quickly conform to the ARRIRAW files, and have the changes preserved. (The software will even update the ARRIRAW v3.0 file with the new changes.
We have also added the ability to use CDL as well as 1D,3x1D and 3D LUTs on the timeline, too.

I've worked closely with ARRI for over a year to get this built. It will make an ARRI workflow as easy as a ProRes only workflow, but permits the same powerful image manipulation capabilities as RAW.

I hope to have the tool available for the end of June.

A Quick Question..
I know for a fact that 2K DPX is exactly the same data size as 2K ARRIRAW. So if you were to do 2k DPXs, wouldn't your data requirements be the same if you converted your R3D footage to DPX?

bob..



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