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Recently RED announced the imminent release of the .R3D file format SDK along with the development of third party support for Adobe Premiere and After Effects, among many other application down the road.

Today, RED released a sneak peek at the UI of Premiere Pro for native support of .R3D files in the Project Timeline and Import Options panel.

Here is what Jarred Land had to say about upcoming release:

"Remember.. this is first release and not optimized so its not as fast as it will be..

That said, as you can see in the preference tab ( which you get when you double click on a file ) you can change your resolution down to a realtime size and cut away, then after the cut go back into the tab and to a global full resolution toggle for output."

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...and the upcoming After Effects importer.

The fact that RED is coming out with an SDK is a huge deal. Can't wait to see what happens when third parties really start having fun with it!

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Can't wait to get your hands on the Adobe plugin? Get a sneak peek at the Adobe blog:

http://blogs.adobe.com/davtechtable/2008/08/new_red_camera_adobe_support_1.html

As indicated on the blog they were looking at an early beta and things have changed a bit since then.

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This was posted recently by the folks at RED:

"The REDcode Importer plug-in when released will be for CS4 only --- it's specifically tuned for CS4, and CS4 has a new architecture that enables much better large memory usage with 64 bit OS (Win / Mac) making it a much better place to do RED workflows.

The plugin will be released sometime in November."

More info coming soon...

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RELEASED:

RED ADOBE CS4 INSTALLER (BETA) v1.3.0
Release Date: 2008-12-10
REDCODE Installer for Adobe CS4
Both PC and Mac beta versions on www.red.com/support .

SUMMARY: Provides native REDCODE media (R3D) support for Premiere Pro CS4 (4.0.1 and later) and After Effects CS4 (9.0.1 and later). Includes: REDCODE importer (v1.3.0), After Effects Settings Dialog and workflow guide. Note: Supports RED ONE cameras up through Build 18.

NOTE: To successfully use the Adobe apps to load R3D files, you must download the following updates: Adobe Premiere Pro CS4 4.0.1 update and Adobe After Effects CS4 9.0.1 update from http://www.adobe.com/downloads/updates/.

Minimum System Requirements:

* 3.0 GHz Quad core system with 8GB RAM

* Hard drive with 40MB/sec sustained throughput is required; RAID striped array recommended

* Windows Vista 64 Service Pack 1 or Mac OS 10.5

* Premiere Pro 4.0.1 update. After Effects 9.0.1 (available soon) required for RED support in After Effects

* RED Importer plug-in available at www.red.com

* High end notebook computers should support real time playback in Premiere Pro using 512 sequence settings

Known Issues – Adobe Premiere Pro:

* When importing RED R3D footage using Import Folder in Premiere Pro, be aware that QuickTime Reference files are not supported in Premiere and will cause an import failure on Vista. If this happens, the import progress dialog will appear frozen. Minimize Premiere, and find the error dialog so you can cancel to skip these unsupported files, then the source footage should finish importing correctly.

* RED settings cannot be specified on a clip by clip basis. All changes made in the RED settings dialogue are applied globally.

* Titles created at one sequence setting resolution are not automatically rescaled when the contents of a sequence are copied into a higher resolution sequence for final output. These will have to be resized in the higher resolution sequence.

* The preview codec for 1K and 512 sequences is MPEG I-Frame, which is limited to 1K resolution sequence settings. It cannot be used for 2K and higher resolutions.

* Premiere becomes unresponsive if you attempt to access the RED R3D Settings dialog while audio is conforming in the background. Please wait until audio conforming is complete. Conforming progress is visible in the Status bar at the bottom of the application window.

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Tutorial Videos:

http://blogs.adobe.com/davtechtable/2008/12/native_red_camera_files_cs4.html#more

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Check out Dave Helmly's brand new video about Adobe-RED workflow using the RED 1.7 plug-in for the CS 4.1 updates. The 45 minute video features lots of great new info with an in depth technical overview and step by step procedures for set-up and workflow.

It's titled: DAVTech Table - Editing with RED 1.7 Technical Overview

You can view it on Adobe TV at:

http://tv.adobe.com/#vi+f1510v1006