More detail on Adobe RED workflow
More information has surfaced about the much exciting announcment of Adobe having native suppourt for RED R3D files. Dave Helmly from Adobe has
posted an overview of the internal Beta test version he's been kicking around and, more interestingly, has posted a couple of videos showing off the workflow.
What I find most interesting in the demo is the performance on the 2k files. Premiere has a good resolution independent engine (arguably not as efficient as Sony's Vegas which is extrodinary in being totally agnostic of both res and format but in many ways PP is more fluid than FCP at scaling performance and working res with better real-time) In simple terms this just allows for a good fast display/preview res independent of the source.
The demo shows the RED footage played back realtime happily on a MacBookPro laptop, swapped back and forth with After Effects and even keying in AE direct on the R3D. If they keep working on this it could make for a really effective workflow for low-power computers and in-the-field laptops. Particularly because there's no intermediate step - R3D's straight of the card/drive straight onto the timeline.
The unexpected process detailed in the videos is the movement of native R3D files from Premiere to Encore and authored out to BluRay. The famed integration between Adobe apps makes for a pretty slick source to HD delivery workflow. This is potentially an awesome way to handle RED dailies. Straight from the card to the laptop and out to BluRay before the set is wrapped. Screen the dailies that night from a BluRay player.
This is obviously early beta of the Adobe RED workflow but there's some exciting stuff here and some good, forward thinking, ideas. Im sure im not the only one looking forward to see where Adobe take this.
If you're time poor you can check out
the short version of the workflow or if you're a total nerd for this kind of stuff with too much time on your hands you can sit back for the 20min version below.
