Red workflow helper software Crimson now available

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Red workflow helper software Crimson now available

Tuesday, 18 March 2008, 8:05 pm by Dan Carew

[UPDATE, 27 Mar 2008, 13:00: Ian Bloom, Crimson's creator, has posted a good video explaining what Crimson does and how it works.]

Mike Curtis on ProVideo Coalation alerted me to the availability of Crimson, which I had wrote about earlier. The goal is to make it a lot easier to work with files coming out of your Red camera, specifically, getting your edit from Final Cut Pro into RedCine (for color grading) and back to Final Cut. According to Ian Bloom, Crimson’s creator:

Crimson Workflow™ is a tool for transforming sequences created in popular Non-Linear Editing Software, such as Final Cut Pro, Avid and Premiere. It allows proxies, and offline material to be replaced by higher quality material, by efficiently managing the use of two software products distributed by the Red Digital Cinema Camera Company, namely Redline and Redcine.

Crimson Workflow™ leverages many tools for troubleshooting less than perfect metadata and file structures giving the user tools to properly reconnect to original material. It also facilitates the use of Redcine after, rather than before editing a project….

Crimson Workflow™ currently works on Macintosh computers and supports XML sequences from Final Cut Pro. I am planning support for Avid and Adobe Premiere in the near future. I am also planning a Windows version that will be sold seperately….

If you buy this software today, you can expect the following features to be enabled in the near future:

Loading and Saving Workflow Templates

Undo and Redo enabled

Support for AVID XML sequences

Support for Premiere XML sequences

Support for CMX 3600 EDLs

Blind Color Correction Tools Completed

Blind Framing Tools Completed

Support for GlueTools™

Support for the application formerly known as RedTools

Proper handling of speed changes and reverse in XML sequences.

Trimmed R3D Intermediates (as soon as a tool is available)

Timecode and R3D Metadata awareness.

Python Scripting Enabled

If you buy a serial number today, you are buying incomplete software still in development. Updates listed above will be included with this serial number and bug fixes will be for life.