Apple Color 1.5 - Manual (Page 58)

Offline Using Apple ProRes; Finishing with RED Media
An advantage to editing with Apple ProRes media is that it’s less processor-intensive than
editing using RED QuickTime files, which makes editing in Final Cut Pro more efficient.
After you reconform, you can still work in Color at the higher quality with access to all of
the raw image data in the R3D file, since Color can bypass QuickTime and use the RED
framework directly to read the native 2K or 4K RGB 4:4:4 data inside of each file.
The only real disadvantages to this workflow are that the initial transcoding stage can be
time-consuming, and that later, reconforming is an extra step that requires careful
organization.
Color
Render
Final Cut Pro
Edit Using
ProRes
Media
Film Output
Film
Recorder
Film
Print
Final Output
Sequence
Video Output
Final Cut Pro
Videotape
QuickTime
Master
Rendered
QuickTime
Media
DPX
RED Media
Directories
Archive
Original RED
Media
Ingest Offline
ProRes
Media
Gather
Rendered
Media
Send to Final Cut Pro
Send to Color
Color
Correction
Reingest and
Reconform to
Native RED QT
Media Data
Export
QuickTime or
Edit to Tape
The following steps break this process down more explicitly.
58 Chapter 2 Color Correction Workflows