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Look at this graph. See that tiny yellow-orange line towards the top? That’s Apple’s revenue for software, a little over 4%, maybe $56-57 million. Hardware, specifically the iPhone, is their cash cow. The more I see this, the more I get The Fear™ that while Apple isn’t ignoring pro users, we’re increasingly less relevant. 

According to ProVideo Coalition, a recent update to Final Cut Studio now supports R3D files. At least, the same way it handles P2: re-wrapped as QT files.

We could always transcode to ProRes or work with proxies, but this now gives us the ability to work with the full 12-bit RGB data. This will be especially usefull in Color¹.

There are a few caviats, such as being Intel-only, still no ability to work with full 4k (just the 2k data), and no Raw or Redcode timeline, since these are still read-only. Still, I’m very, very happy to gain the ability to work with the raw data instead of transcoded ProRes files or the proxies.

[Thanks John.]

1. While I’m still relatively new to color grading and Red in particular, apparently DPX didn’t even support this. Which means we can really pull more highlight data. ↩