System information

Nov 27 2008 Copyright RED Digital Cinema

Recording

Check that you have a RED-DRIVE attached, or Compact Flash card inserted in the camera. To

initiate a recording, press either RECORD button. Press once to begin recording and again to

stop recording. The camera will automatically create a file name for every clip recorded on the

digital magazine or media.

REDCODE RAW data recordings store the Color Temperature and Exposure (ISO) and any RGB

color processing values you use in the monitor path as metadata. This metadata is used in RED

Alert! or other post production software as initial white balance, exposure and color correction

points i.e. you can change these if you wish when you process the RAW footage.

Time Code and Edge Code values used by the camera are Non Drop Frame (NDF), Drop Frame

(DF) is not supported. Audio is captured at 48KHz 24-bit resolution per channel, uncompressed.

Digital media should be treated with equal care as exposed film or a videotape master. We

recommend storing digital media that contains your footage in a secure location and backing up

the data on another digital media, such as data tape or a hard disk drive.

Each clip is recorded to the digital media in a separate folder and with a unique clip name. To

copy the clip from the digital media to a Macintosh or Windows computer, just drag and drop its

folder to the computer’s storage device. If you open the Clip folder, it will look like this –

The Clip folders (.RDC) are held in a root directory (.RDM) on the digital magazine. In each

folder there will be one or more REDCODE RAW data files (.R3D) containing RAW sensor data,

plus audio and metadata, and four QuickTime reference movies, which allows a QuickTime

Player to display the RAW data at _F full, _H high, _M medium or _P proxy resolutions.

Double click on one of the QuickTime reference movies to see a preview of the .R3D file. Play-

back frame rate will depend on the processor speed of your computer. If the frame rate is too

low, select a smaller QuickTime movie.

Note: to operate with QuickTime under Macintosh OSX, install the supplied REDCODE

RAW plug-in available at www.red.com/support. Windows is not currently supported.