For Intel-based Apple Macintosh systems with Final Cut Pro 6.0.5 or above. The Final Cut Studio RED Installer provides the RED QuickTime Codec (v3.7.0), Log and Transfer (v1.0.0) functionality to import REDCODE RAW clips as either native REDCODE media (R3D’s) wrapped in QuickTime or the option to transcode them directly to Apple’s ProRes 422 codec. There is also a new specialized functionality for color grading native QuickTime wrapped R3D media in Color using the original RAW parameters (REDCODE plugin fro Color v2.7.0). Located in the download is a whitepaper PDF describing in detail this new, advanced way to edit REDCODE media, color grade and finish inside Final Cut Studio.

This is coming in Final Cut Pro 6.0.5.

There’s also updates to Compressor, Color, and Shake. It’s good to know the Final Cut Studio teams hasn’t been totally asleep lately in the wake of Adobe dumping major research and development into Adobe Premiere Pro. This isn’t entirely breaking news since this feature of Adobe Premiere has been demoed in public before. And this is a wrapping of the .R3D files in a QuickTime wrapper as opposed to a drag and drop of .R3Ds into the FCP browser. And of course you can still transcode to ProRes. I think what is surprising is that it dropped today when Adobe was releasing their Premiere Pro update. According to Adobe, RED was to post a plug-in on their support site to enable native Premiere Pro workflow.

Adobe Premiere Pro CS4 is part of the Production Suite or Master Suite of applications available for the Mac or PC.