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RED has released an ‘Alpha’ preview of their REDCINE-X grading application and it’s a winner. Designed as a replacement for both RED Alert! and REDCINE, REDCINE-X combines the functionality of both applications while taking huge strides forward in usability and speed.

What I Like:

User Interface: the big boys of editing could learn a thing or two from this. I was able to load, grade and export a clip a minute after firing it up for the first time. With no instructions at all. It’s just that intuitive.

Play bin in media by hovering mouse- again another one of those things you see in the high-end software that is just something you want in all of your editing apps.

Auto-Scan for R3D- this is what computers are meant to do, find your footage wherever it is on the hard drive so you don’t have to.

Performance: On my 2 X 3 Ghz Quad Mac Pro with an NVIDIA Quadro FX 4500 I could play and grade with decent performance up to 1/2 resolution. This rocks and saves you a lot of time. Expect to see much higher performance if you have a REDRocket card installed.

What I Don’t Like:
Runs only as a full screen application. This means you can’t have it in a floating window with other applications at the same time. I realize this is for performance sake, but it’s less practical when you want to have several other apps going as you grade. At least the dock stays visible and Apple-H hides REDCINE-X as it should.

Still an Alpha, this app is useful and much-needed, so here’s to RED’s engineering team getting it up to full production speed and stability asap.

To check out REDCINE-X on your own system, try out this link:

http://redgrabs.com/REDCINE-X_ALPHA1.zip

(It’s Mac-only for now but a Windows version is promised at some point.)