R3D Format Settings - Import

When importing R3D media files from the MediaHub, you can use the file header information for various settings. This addition makes importing multi-selection of R3D files easier since you can define manual settings for some parameters while preserving camera original settings for non-modified options. You can set it up in the MediaHub, in the R3D format options.

Using file header information to set import options:

Metadata Settings

Tape Name box

Select an option to determine how the tape name is set when importing clips.

Select: To:

Enter Tape Name

Activate the Tape Name field where you enter the tape name. When selecting multiple files for import, this tape name is used for all imported files.

Tape Name from File Name

Use the name of the imported file as the tape name.

Tape Name from Directory

Determine the tape name from the detected directory structure. Use the Level field below to configure the relative path to the directory from which the tape name can be determined.

Tape Name from Header

Read the tape name from the header of the imported file.

Level field
Set from which directory the tape name is taken, relative to the location of the clip in the directory structure.

Although available for all types of files, the Level field is intended for directory structures output by film scanners. A typical image file directory structure looks like this: ./<tape>/<resolution>/clip.######. In this case, selecting Levels Up 2 in the Level field identifies the directory that corresponds to the tape name (./<tape>). Enabled if Tape Name is set to Tape From Directory.

Tape Name field
Enter the name to use as tape name when importing the clip. Enabled if Tape Name is set to Enter Tape Name.
Orientation box
Flip (vertical) or flop (horizontal) the media when importing the clip. Camera uses the orientation defined on the camera during the shoot. Disable Flip to use the true orientation of the image, as it was shot.
Timecode box
Select which timecode to use as RED camera records both edge code (run record) and time-of-day (free run) timecodes during a shoot. Or Use Primary to use the timecode defined at the time of the shoot.

Debayering Settings

Debayering box
Select the resolution of the imported clip. Premium and Good refer to quality of the debayer, especially the anti-aliasing performance. Full is always Premium quality, while Quarter, Eighth and Sixteenth are always Good.
Note: The debayering setting is the most resource-intensive setting. Try using the level of debayering the most appropriate for your work.
Decoder box
Use GPU ensures the debayering happens on the GPU. This is the option to use for best performance. Use CPU if the GPU decoding causes issues such as image corruption.

GPU decoding is only available on CentOS.

Bit Depth box
Set the bit depth of the imported image. This setting is bypassed and implicitly set to 16 bits Floating Point when importing an HDRx clip as High Dynamic Range media, when using a Gamma Curve set to Scene Linear (16-bit fp), or when using the ACES colour space setting.
Detail box
Select the level of detail extraction required. This is not a sharpen setting. Only processed when importing clips with Debayering set to Full.
Denoise box
Select the level of noise reduction applied. Only processed when importing clips with Debayering set to Full.
Dragon Enhanced Black
Enable to remove red noise in low light contents. Only available for DRAGON footage and if Debayer Mode is set to Full or Half Premium.

This setting is unavailable when colour science is set to IPP2.

OLPF Compensation box
Select the level of Optical Low Pass Filter (OLPF) to compensate for the optical anti-aliasing filter. Only processed when importing clips with Debayering set to Half Premium or Full.

OLPF is a type of sharpening used to compensate for the optical anti-aliasing filter, which can induce softening of the image during recording.

Flashing Pixel Adjustment
Only available when colour science is set to IPP2 and when debayering at Full or Half Premium.
Chroma Noise Reduction
Only available when colour science is set to IPP2 and when debayering at Full or Half Premium.

Colour Settings

Note: When the MediaHub General colour management settings are in Auto Convert mode and the Input Colour Space is set to "From File or Rules", the Format Specific Colour Settings are ignored. The media will be decoded into ACES colour space and then convverted to the selected Working Space. Otherwise, make sure to set the tagging in General colour management settings to correspond to your colour settings below.
Colour Settings box
Select how Flame uses the colour information stored within an R3D file.
Select: To have:
User Flame import RED clips using the options you set in the Image, Gain, and Curve menus.
Camera Flame import RED clips using the look created on the RED camera and stored in the RED clip.

Disables the Image, Gain, and Curve menu options.

RMD/Camera Flame import RED clips using the RMD look created in REDCINE-X, or fall back on the camera settings if there is no RMD settings.

Disables the Image, Gain, and Curve menu options.

RSX Only Flame import RED clips using the RSX look created in RED Alert!. The RSX file of a clip must reside in the same directory as the R3D file of that clip. Disables the Image, Gain, and Curve menu options.

With this option selected, only clips with an RSX profile can be imported. Clips without an RSX profile appear to be missing media.

RSX or RMD/Camera Flame import RED clips using the RSX look. If a clip has no RSX file, Flame imports it using the RMD look created in REDCINE-X, or fall back on the camera settings if there is no RMD settings.

Disables the Image, Gain, and Curve menu options.

RSX or User Flame imports RED clips using the RSX look. If a clip has no RSX file, Flame imports it using the options you set in the Image, Gain, and Curve menus.

Enables the Image, Gain, and Curve menu options.

Save as User Settings button
Enable to make the Camera colour settings editable in the timeline FX Format Options. Save as User Settings is implicitly enabled when the Colour Settings box is set to User, or RSX or User.
Colour Science box
Set the version of the RED decoder to use. IPP2 is the most recent update to the RED decoder and should be used in most cases. IPP2 also gives you access to the CDL Settings.

Disabled when Colour Space is set to ACES.

Note: As of the 2020.1 release, the Dragon Enhanced Black option is no longer available when colour science is set to IPP2.
Colour Space box
Select the colour space of the imported clips.

ACES requires specific menu settings for R3D media to decode properly. If you select the ACES option, Flame disables the Gamma Curve and the Colour Science boxes, as well as the Advanced Colour and Curve menu options; it sets implicitly the Bit Depth (Debayering menu) to 16-bit fp. It also disables the Brightness, Contrast, DRX and Shadow sliders in the Image menu.

Gamma Curve box
Set the value of the output gamma curve that is applied to the imported clips. Selecting Scene Linear (16bit fp) implicitly sets the Bit Depth to 16-bit floating point. If you set HDRx Settings to High Dynamic Range, HDRx clips are imported as Scene Linear, ignoring the Gamma Curve setting. If set to Linear, the ISO, Exposure, Brightness and FLUT controls, in the Image menu, are disabled.

Disabled when Colour Space is set to ACES.

HDRx Settings box
Select which track of a RED HDRx file to import, or how to merge the two tracks together. A RED HDRx media file is made of two tracks, track A (the main exposure) and track X (the highlight protection exposure). Use HDRx Settings to set how you want to use those two tracks.
Select: To have:
Primary Exposure Only the main exposure (A track).
Highlight Exposure Only the highlight protection exposure (X track).
Blend Exposures A single clip resulting from blending together the Primary and Highlight tracks. Blend Exposures behaves similarly to the option of the same name found in REDCINE-X by RED.

Use the Blend field to set the blend value to use.

Magic Motion A single clip resulting from the merge of the Primary and Highlight tracks using an algorithm provided and developed by RED. This algorithm tries to match and blend together the motion blurs of the two tracks.
High Dynamic Range A single clip resulting from the merge of the Primary and Highlight tracks using an HDR merging algorithm developed by Autodesk. It converts the two exposures into a single 16-bit float image.

Importing an HDRx clip as High Dynamic Range forces the Bit Depth of the imported clip to 16-bit floating point, and the Gamma Curve to Scene Linear.

Use the Blend, Highlight Threshold, and Exposure Offset fields to refine the blend.

RMD A clip using blending options read from the RMD file. If there is no RMD file, the Flame loads the main exposure (A track).
Blend field
Set how to blend the two exposures of a RED HDRx clip.

With HDRx Settings set to Blend Exposures, this field behaves like the blend in REDCINE-X; the blend also attenuates the artifacts created by the scene operation, which is a blend of the two exposures: -1 shows only the Highlight (X frame), 1 only the Primary (A Frame), and 0 a 50-50 mix.

With HDRx Settings set to High Dynamic Range, Blend also attenuates the artifacts created by scene motions; set to 1 unless you are troubleshooting motion artifacts.

Highlight Threshold field
Set the threshold when pixels from the Highlight exposure are used instead of the over-exposed pixels from the Primary exposure. Only available when HDRx Settings box is set to High Dynamic Range. Set Highlight Threshold last because import options such as ISO or FLUT lighten or darken the image. Too high and you get clipping (often including a magenta-coloured cast), too low and the midtones and shadows have noise leaking in from the Highlight track.
Exposure Offset field
Set how much greater the Primary exposure was when compared to the Highlight exposure, in units of stops. Only available when HDRx Settings box is set to High Dynamic Range. The Exposure Offset should be set to match the setting on the camera for how many stops separate the Primary and Highlight tracks. This is typically 2 or 3 stops.
Offset From File button
Enable to use the Exposure Offset read from the R3D file. Enabled when HDRx Settings is set to High Dynamic Range.

CDL Settings

Note: The CDL settings are only available when Colour Settings > Colour Science is set to IPP2.

Use the CDL settings to control the slope, offset, power, and saturation of an R3D file. CDL values are only available to R3D files that use IPP2 colour science.

CDL box
Set the source of the CDL data use by the imported R3D file.
  • CDL Enabled: Apply the CDL metadata from the R3D or RMD sidecar file (when present). Select this option when you need to edit the CDL data.
  • CDL Disabled: Do not apply the CDL metadata from the R3D or RMD sidecar file (when present).
  • CDL As Per File: Enable the CDL settings only if the CDL option is enabled in the imported R3D file. This is the default option.

Image Settings

Options from the Gamma Curve box and from the Colour Space box might disable some of the fields below.

Image Settings from File
Enable to read the Image settings from the r3d file header. Disables all of the Image settings fields.
Advanced Settings from File
Enable to read the Advanced Colour settings and the Curve settings from the r3d file header. Disables Advanced Colour settings and Curve settings.
ISO
Select the value of the linear gain operation. Disabled if Gamma Curve is set to Linear.
Exposure
Set the exposure value, an equivalent to f-stops. Disabled if Gamma Curve is set to Linear.
Brightness
Set the brightness value. Disabled if Colour Space is set to ACES, or if Gamma Curve is set to Linear.
Saturation
Set the saturation value.
Contrast
Set the contrast value. Disabled if Colour Space is set to ACES.
DRX
Set the Dynamic Range Extension, which sets how much pixel data is copied from non-saturated channels into saturated channels. Disabled if Colour Space is set to ACES.
Kelvin
Set the perceptual colour temperature of the image, in Kelvin.
Tint
Set the tint value.
Shadow
Set the Shadow level. Disabled if Colour Space is set to ACES.
FLUT
Set the FLUT to refine of the ISO level. As FLUT units are in stops, a +1 FLUT value is the same as doubling the ISO. Disabled if Gamma Curve is set to Linear.

Advanced Colour Settings

Note: Disabled when Image > Advanced Settings from File is enabled.

Use the Advanced Colour menu to set the RGB Lift, Gamma, and Gain of RED clips.

Use the Legacy Gain options if you import clips shot with a RED codec that uses a pre-3.0 Colour Science.

Note: We recommend that you do not change the default settings unless you have prior experience with colour management.

Colour Curves Settings

Note: Disabled when Image > Advanced Settings from File is enabled.

Use this menu to set the RGB and Luma curves for RED clips.

Note: We recommend that you do not change the default settings unless you have prior experience with colour management.
Parent topic: MediaHub Reference: Browsing for Files