Red™ Quicktime Codec; Red Alert - RED ONE Operation Manual

RED™ QUICKTIME CODEC
(Use V3.9.0 or higher for Build 20 footage)
NOTE: V3.9.0 is currently not compatible with Build 20 camera color matrix – therefore camera foo-
tage should be white balanced before editing or other image processing)
The RED™ QuickTime codec permits REDCODE™ RAW footage to be displayed on Macintosh OSX per-
sonal computers running QuickTime Player V7.4.5 or higher.
Render performance of computers will vary based on CPU speed, number of cores and disk speed. The
RED ONE™ camera, RED Alert! ® and REDCINE® offer QuickTime reference movies at _F full, _H half,
_M medium and _P proxy resolution. Choose the resolution that is most appropriate to your requirement
for playback frame rate on your specific computer. If the footage is to be viewed at distant location – e.g.
dailies - export the footage as a standalone movie using MPEG-4 or other low bit rate codec.
NOTE: The QuickTime reference movies work by partially decoding the wavelet data, which means
that the original RAW recording must be available on a drive accessible to your computer. For re-
mote use, conversion to a standalone movie avoids this issue.
NOTE: If an ANAMORPHIC record mode has been selected (2K ANA, 3K ANA, 4K ANA) any video
captured from the camera HD-SDI outputs has been stretched 2:1 to illustrate the final 2.40:1 as-
pect ratio of the final image projection. The actual recorded image is 1.2:1 aspect, and the Quick-
Time reference movies will reflect that aspect ratio.
RED ALERT! ®
(Use Build 20 / Version 20.1.6 or higher for Build 20 footage)
RED Alert! ® is available for Intel based Mac OSX computers only.
In addition to performing white balance and one light color correction, RED Alert! ® can export a clip at 4K
and 2K resolution via 10-bit DPX or 16-bit TIFF files, or create color corrected Quic Time reference mov-
k
ies for editing or other uses by applications that use the RED™ QuickTime Codec. As RED ONE™ shoots
progressive scan images, all QuickTime movies created by RED Alert! ® will also be progressive scan.
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