Navite R3D support finaly available for CS4 only…

December 10, 2008 in Technology with 1 Comment

Well it finally happened, RED just released it’s “Beta” Adobe CS4 Installer – which brings native raw support for R3D files inside of Premiere CS4.0.1 and After Effects 9.0.1 (make sure that you’ve done your updates). This supports footage from RED One’s up through Build 18, but not without a very serious workstation!

Min spec has been reported to be:

3.0 Ghz Quad Core System with 8 GB RAM
Hard drive with at least 40MB/sec (Striped RAID recommended) – yeah no joke!
Vista 64 sp1

And it’s said that “high end” notebooks should have real time playback using the 512 sequence settings…

Everything that you need for the plug-in can be found at http://www.red.com/support

This means that we are one step closer to actually being able to do this! Is this a game changing moment in time – NO! It only means that we are a bit closer to the idea of having more accessible tools to develop media on. Also, unless you’ve been under a rock – you must have seen the Dec 3rd announcement that RED released showing a possible $3,700 scarlet rig (coming in much lower than the $7k price mark that I once thought it would take to build a full kit.

Until all of this actually happens – I’d be happy with a MinoHD and Vegas (w/ Magic Bullet Looks)..