Oh the fun of Red workflows. Besides our issues of Transcoding the decomposed clips the AE has now discovered that the down converts from the field were made in real time onto Pix recorders. Unfortunately when we compare the pix recorder files to the avid ama linked Red R3D files there are approx 4 or 5 frames difference in time code for the same frame. WTF. The production crew said it would be great and no problem to do the down converts in real time using the Pix, I assume Pix-240 recorder, to do everything during the shoot. This way the DIT wouldn't have to do the downconvert transcodes later. Well please correct me if I'm wrong but the down converts should have the same Fing time code the Red raw files have. So in order to seemingly save sooooo much time in production, even though it's one person (the DIT) that does the transcodes not the whole crew, they have F'd post once again with their lack of competence.
I don't see why what they did doesn't work frame accurately but I don't know the setup. I would assume they feed the Pix HDSDI which would carry the timecode that should match the raw files. But I have no idea if there is a processing delay on the HDSDI spicket and if the embedded time code is how the Pix was slaved to the camera. This is just cluster flop after cluster flop. It really shouldn't be this hard.
John Moore
Barking Trout Productions
Studio City, CA
bigfish@pacbell.net
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