Avid Demonstrates Support for RED Camera
Click over to HDHead to see a summary of a November 5th presentation by Avid on their RED support. We’ve all been grateful for Avid’s official RED support page but there appears to be more to come with Avid RED support. First is the ability to use Avid MetaFuze to help in the file conversion and preparation of offline media for an Avid edit. Second is what appears to be upcoming support for the raw RED .R3D files in Avid DS. From the HDHead site:
The RED conform in Avid DS will resemble the file based conform via AFE introduced in version 10. A Media Composer AFE will create clips that link to the the original RED .R3D files.
The Avid DS RED importer will allow the full range of RED based adjustments like the parameters in REDcine or REDrushes. Color temperature, ISO speed, OLPF processing, curve adjustments, etc. will all be available in the new importer along with an option to use the .RSX color metadata from REDalert.
This is great news for a RED > Avid conform and the native .R3D support is something that I speculated on when Avid announced this new version of DS. It wasn’t announced with the new version back in August but I think we all knew it was inevitable.