RED Apple: FCP Gets RED readier

From Mike Curtis at HD for Indies has news on the updated workflow for the RED camera and Final Cut Pro. This should be coming with the next update to FCP 6.0.5 and Color 1.0.3

"... new functionality in Log & Transfer. At present, you can import Red material and it will transcode to one of the ProRes codecs. This process is slow. The new option will be to simply rewrap the R3D files as QuickTimes. This is NOT using the reference files, these will be freestanding, self contained QuickTime files, using the native R3D data wrapped in a QuickTime, uh, wrapper. This sounds very similar to how native P2 DVCPRO HD media is rewrapped MXF files in a QT wrapper. This will allow for native 2K workflows."

This is exciting as it will quickly allow FCP and Color to migrate to a 2K workflow without having to rely on the traditional throughput necessary to handle 2K DPX files. And small facilities like ours will be able to grade a film shot on RED through a simple Matrox MXO solution.