Post Production Support

If you have selected a post house prior to production, it is an extremely good idea to consult with them on their preferences, since the RED system is very customizable.

The RED ONE camera system encourages the production team to follow a post workflow similar to that of a film shoot. On set, when your operator presses record, your camera creates R3D files -- RED's proprietary file format. When your camera operator cuts the camera, the R3D file is completed, and the camera then makes proxy video files of varying resolutions. When your digital magazine is full, it goes to your data wrangler, who can check the footage either from the proxy files via Quicktime, or from RED Alert or RED Cine software offerings. The data wrangler then copies these files to external hard drives.

Once your production day(s) are over, these hard drives are then transferred to your edit facility. From there, many workflows are possible - an offline can be made directly from the Quicktime proxies, or higher resolution files can be created via RED Cine in just about any file type you can imagine, from standard definition through 4K. And almost every NLE is working on a way to directly support RED's file system.

GEAR now carries a RED Rocket system. This system is currently available for in-house use by your technician. The benefit of this system, which is housed in a Mac Pro tower, is real time viewing of color corrected RED files via RED's RED CINE X software, and accelerated file creation of transcoded files in the format of your choice.