Will Red One camera footage work in Vegas?

Avene wrote on 4/1/2008, 5:26 PM
Some guys I've been doing a bit of work for just bought a Red camera. The first test was a music video shoot the other night. My job was dumping the footage from two CF cards onto an external hard drive whilst checking the footage. The clips looked very impressive! There's one Red Code file that contains the actual video, and four proxies that go with it at different sizes, all Quicktime. All the proxies are only 20kb or so in size, very small. The director of the video will be editing in FCP (he has no idea ;-)), but I was just curious if Red clips could be edited in Vegas, providing the codec could be recognised? If so I'd assume it would only be at 8 bit?

But yeah, what a nice camera.. If I had a spare $20K, I'd definitely consider placing an order, but only if I knew there was compatibility with Vegas.

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farss wrote on 4/1/2008, 5:41 PM
Neither the RedOne or the SI-2K are directly 'compatible' with Vegas.
Obviously you can edit footage from anything in any NLE once it's in a format that the NLE can handle. Just how much that negates the advantages of using the camera in the first place is the critical question.

You can always edit proxies from anything in Vegas and then do an online with a system that can handle the native footage. That'd be viable for a feature length narative drama. It'd hardly seem viable for a music video.

Bob.
Justin Young wrote on 4/6/2008, 12:28 AM
I imagine Cineform Neo4K would be a pretty good way of editing RED footage in Vegas. Of course currently Vegas is limited to 2K.
TimTyler wrote on 4/6/2008, 8:05 AM
> If I had a spare $20K, I'd definitely consider placing an order,

You'd need more than $20k. That'll just buy you a camera body and a baseplate. Don't forget batteries, a lense, viefinder, decent tripod (the camera's heavy) , storage media, and a few cases to carry everything.