In discussion about the recent crop of HD DSLR cameras on RedUser the RED head honcho Jim Jannard famously said “1080P is the VHS of the Future” – implying that 1080P video wasn’t going to be good enough for cinema in the future, in fact barely good enough for home movies.
He was quite widely dismissed [...]
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VHS of the Future
RED: MC5 to DS Workflows
With the introduction of AMA support for RED media in Media Composer 5 it has become a easier to edit RED footage in MC, but it’s still not a finishing solution for many jobs. Avid’s DS product, on the other hand, is a great RED finishing tool.
Media Composer 5.0 with R3D Media
Yesterday I posted a very brief summary of the workflow for Canon DSLR clips in Avid Media Composer 5.0, today I am following it up with the same demonstation for R3D media from the RED One camera.
R3D Media in Avid Media Composer 5.0 from Dylan Reeve on Vimeo.
Media Composer 5 – Review Soon!
I’ve just received a copy of Avid Media Composer 5.0 – it’s a bit like Christmas!
I’ve had a chance to try some of the big new features – AMA linking to RAW RED media and Canon DSLR clips, but it’s going to take me a while to dig right into the new features – I [...]
Network Rendering with MetaFuze
Avid MetaFuze is a tool from Avid Technology that converts various video formats (most notably DPX and RED RAW) into native DNxHD media that can be used with Avid’s editing products. The product ships with two interfaces – a GUI for direct transcoding, and a command-line version more suitable for scripting.
A small number of modestly [...]


