Re: [Avid-L2] Better RED than DEAD: or Red doc questions or Whyisn't Avid marketing all over this?

We are not impressed with the audio on RED but like it for auto
Waveform DSS sync up.

Ian Wilson
Colortape Productions
Ian@colortape.tv
0418 327 082
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On 08/10/2009, at 6:09 AM, "Ken Sirulnick" <kenavid2@glueedit.com>
wrote:

> Will Red Cine handle audio?
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Job ter Burg (L2B)
> To: Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Wednesday, October 07, 2009 1:38 PM
> Subject: Re: [Avid-L2] Better RED than DEAD: or Red doc questions
> or Whyisn't Avid marketing all over this?
>
>
> "Steve Hullfish" (07-10-2009 17:55) :
>
>> I'm assuming that Avid assumes that the audio from the R3D file is
>> unimportant since Avid's doc glosses over the fact that their entire
>> workflow ignores audio completely.
>
> You can simply select to include or exclude audio (if present) from
> the R3D.
>
> Audio support has been there since the release of MetaFuze 2, last
> August.
> Avid was ready to add support for audio earlier, it was the ever
> evolving
> Red SDK that was crippled for a while. Easy to blame Avid, not so
> popular to
> blame Red, I know. Still telling it like I hear it through the
> grapevine.
>
>> So a RED project in Avid gets
>> treated like a FILM project essentially, using second system sound, I
>> assume.
>
> That's an option. As said, if you want that sound, use it.
>
>> The MetaFuze option seems the best, since it creates DNxHD/MXF files
>> that are instantly importable into the Avid.
>
> Not even importable: it creates Avid media. If MF writes to your
> (local or
> shared) MXF subdirectory, the footage is ready to go instantly
> after the
> transcoding in MF.
>
>> Then
>> you use the AFE file somehow? That's not clear in the docs.
>
> AFE to DS. Or EDL into Scratch or BaseLight. AAF to BaseLight
> should work,
> but everytime I bring it up at my favorite BaseLight house, they
> prefer an
> EDL, since they don't feel BaseLight has AAF import covered so good
> (their
> words).
>
>> With RedRushes, what's the deal with the QT wrapped DNxHD?
>
> RedRushes is slower than MetaFuze. And indeed, you get a fast
> import into
> Avid, rather than Avid Media you can use instantly.
>
> --
> Job ter Burg
> film editor - NL
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