freakinrad

i’m working on a project we shot a few weeks ago on RED and are building loopable assets for a site. i know that’s very general, but until the site goes live, that’s about all i can say. but, in working with 3 days worth of footage, over 80 separate video pieces of people (most of which need to interact with each other and all of which need to loop as seamless as possible), all clocking in around 670gb of footage, i’ve found there are many different workflows possible and i’m still trying to suss out the most effective.

to begin, we had made selects on-set, somewhat simplifying my initial workload of going through the footage to pull the best shots. to find the most effective loop points, i went through the footage in FCP working with the camera-generated 2k proxies. at this point, i would note the frame numbers of my in/out points and created a spreadsheet of these selects. additionally, i noted alternates as all our footage is going on the web and we will most likely need smaller renders that work over longer ones that look better.

the second phase of my process is where the possibilities of what path i choose really open up. do i color correct within FCP (or Color, for that matter) using the proxies and render those as assets for the developers? logically, this could work as our footage is going on the web. do i take the footage into AE and work with the R3D files directly? do i edit in adobe premiere and then take the .pproj into AE and finish up there? what i’ve chosen to do, so far (i’m still in the middle of production), is to take the in/out points i generated in FCP, go into RED ALERT! and do my CC on the original R3D file where i render out QTs at 1K, and finally take these into AE where i will do some minor post before handing off assets.

i’m merely pontificating here and maybe hoping someone will comment on their personal workflow with RED footage. going through reduser.net i notice many people are adamant about their workflows. i see so many options available that i’m almost inundated with the possibilities.