Redcam to Avid to Color
by Matt Schwab
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Sep 21, 2009 at 8:06:39 pm
Hello,
I'm looking for suggestions on the best possible way to import my project into Apple Color. It is mostly Redcam, with a few minutes of film which was transfered on to a D5.
It seems that the easiest way would be to conform in Avid, then output to a D5 and capture that in to color.
What are some digital ways to go about this? Would I have to use something like AutoDuck to change the Avid EDL in to Final Cut to bring it in to Color?
Re: Redcam to Avid to Color by Joseph Owens on Sep 21, 2009 at 8:46:05 pm
"It seems that the easiest way would be to conform in Avid, then output to a D5 and capture that in to color.
What are some digital ways to go about this? Would I have to use something like AutoDuck to change the Avid EDL in to Final Cut to bring it in to Color? "
Doesn't have the feel of "easy" at all. Your signal path is full of recompressions. Debayer to Avid (DnX?), output to DCT (D5), recapture in (Uncompressed/ProRes) Apple Final Cut and then apply an EDL to that or razor it and then send to COLOR? Yikes.
Automatic Duck will bring in the original layered conform from AVID and you might have a very significant amount of work to do make it work as a V1 CMX EDL, which is all that would work with an off-tape recapture. Not all that appealing, really, especially since COLOR won't like any of the FX or dissolves.
If you have to reconform the RED portion of the show, why not reconnect a Final Cut list (if the show was offlined in AVID, then Automatic Duck would be an advantage here -- import the project with the media offline). Reconnect to the "P" Redcode proxy in the RDC folder for each shot. You can send that sequence directly to COLOR and it will automatically reconnect to the original REDCode media (as long as its 2K or 4K). Do a little two-minute test. You'll be amazed. You will have the RED TAB available in Primaries -- might be an advantage.
