[FFmpeg-user] movement on ffmpeg .R3D v4 support?

[Mel Matsuoka]

On Feb 24, 2017, 9:55 AM -1000, Rob Wentz <rwentz at pedersen.com>, wrote:

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> I work in video post production, our DPs all shoot on Red cameras. . . it's become the norm that if stuff is coming in shot on anything larger than 2K it's shot on a Red camera and the footage is in .R3D.
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> I was hoping to be able to get somewhere with using ffmpeg to create proxies of .R3Ds before archiving them to LTO using Archiware P5 Archive.

Just out of curiosity, is there a reason why REDline won’t work for your needs? It’s pretty comprehensive, as far as working with R3Ds from the command-line is concerned. I use it all the time for generating proxies, just as you mentioned, and I don't really miss it in ffmpeg.