![]() My favorite part of Red Giant Shooter Suite is by far PluralEyes. I would definitely recommend a newer iMac or, better yet, a new Mac Pro with 64GBs of RAM when dealing with high-resolution files - my five-year-old MacBook Pro was a little sluggish. It really is a one-stop shop for dailies creations. In terms of export options you can choose between PhotoJPEG, ProRes or H.264 MPEG-4 AVC, with or without a timecode burn-in, embedded XMP metadata and appended file names. I don’t have much real-world experience as a DIT, so I can’t definitively say if this is a lifesaver for that world, but what I can say is that with 10 years experience in post production I would feel comfortable asking my assistant editor to take a half-hour in Bulletproof, read the online manual and come up with a preset for a Bulletproof workflow to create ProRes Proxy files to edit with. It’s quick, easy and with some practice, anyone with some post knowledge could learn to become a makeshift DIT. I really love the color adjusting with the Red Giant Colorista three-way and LUT addition - it even comes with a few LUTs like Prolost Flat to Warm. If your skill set lies beyond Offload, you’ll want to open Bulletproof, which takes the idea of copy and backup to the next level with addition of metadata editing, light color correction, curves adjusting and even LUT application. Trust me, keeping a copy of things like the checksum file may seem trivial, but when you get an editor or director that wants to blame the low person on the totem pole, you can whip out this file and their argument ends there… hopefully. In addition, the checksum text file can be located and copied. One issue I had with Offload was that as I was transferring some footage from my GoPro Hero3+ Black Edition, I plugged in a drive with XDCAM footage on it and crashed the program, so one word of advice: let all of your files transfer before plugging in more drives.Īnybody could understand this awesomely simple interface, however, the real power lies in the checksum verification (a way to check the integrity of transferred data when compared to its original source media - but keep in mind it doesn’t check for errors, only that the beginning file and end file match exactly) that is done almost instantly after the files are done being copied or backed up. This all happens very simply and even shows a preview thumbnail of the files at the bottom. Offload allows the user (Mac or Windows) to choose a media source folder (including XDCAM, GoPro, etc.), a folder to copy the assets to and a folder to copy a back-up of the assets to. (My advice is don’t take that job.) So to those posting these ads on Staff Me Up and Craigslist, do those poor new hires a favor and buy them Offload, at the least. ![]() The only problem is they usually want to pay $100/day - not a good rate-to-job responsibility ratio. More often than not I see and read about jobs that ask for an “experienced” DIT, editor or assistant editor to be on set to transfer footage from cameras, log, add LUTs and many other responsibilities. Offload is one of those really simple tools that can potentially save your job. Keep in mind that every tool could potentially save you tons of time, money and more importantly your sanity.įirst up is Red Giant Offload. In this review, I will dig in deep to just a few of the tools, but every tool is worth way more than the price of $399 (a savings of $345 if each were bought individually, although LUT Buddy is a free download). ![]() Included in the Shooter Suite package are PluralEyes, Offload, Bulletproof, Denoiser, Instant 4K, Frames and LUT Buddy. Red Giant Shooter Suite (currently in version 12.6) contains seven tools that will help make offloading, organizing, proper metadata entry, synchronizing, denoising, upressing, deinterlacing and LUT-ing much more enjoyable. If you have ever regretted taking a job after realizing that the job description stated “content is already organized and in sync” but they really meant you are the one that will need to “organize and sync” (without jam sync timecode), then you need to pay close attention to this review of Red Giant Shooter Suite. If you have ever been an assistant editor, an editor who had to prep their own content, or even a production assistant who was asked to go way beyond their job title and perform DIT duties on set, you know that without the right tools, that “quick and easy” job you took on Craigslist can quickly turn into a 12-hour day and immediately become not worth the time. A suite of seven tools helps you get organized, saving you time and money
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