Recently one of our clients brought us onto a project that was being shot on the Red One camera.  Since we had no existing workflow designed for Red, we had to come up with a solution.

Being this is largely uncharted territory for many people, we thought we should share our findings and, perhaps, get some feedback from other peoples’ experiences. (more…)

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So I visit the Avid.com message boards every day and one of the questions I see most often has to do with using HD footage in an SD project without scaling the footage down and losing quality.  Many people asking this question are coming from other NLE’s that allow the user to keep the HD footage at 1920×1080 inside their 720×486 project and “Pan and Scan” around the footage while keeping the quality high. But one of the downfalls of Avid is that once you bring the HD footage into an SD project it’s automatically scaled down. Thus you can’t zoom in without it looking blurry.

Well, we all know that Avid isn’t going to change this anytime soon, but there is a work around. I came up with this method a few years ago and I have used it with several times. Now, I warn you, it is a workaround and can get a bit tedious, but it will work.

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