[Tig] where.. neutral review RED?

[Rob Lingelbach]

On Jul 4, 2008, at 8:19 PM, Bob Friesenhahn wrote:

> It seems that the customer may be locked into using RED-provided  
> software in order to make sense of its proprietary RAW camera format  
> (R3D).  It would be interesting if there was an open-source solution  
> to convert from RED-raw to standard DI formats.  I wonder how  
> different RED RAW files are from common DSLR RAW formats?

do you think the Cinepaint developers (Robin Rowe) are working on  
this, or is it an impossibility without reverse-engineering the format  
involving great effort?

Is being locked-in to using their software a bad thing?  I expect so.   
It creates a single path where other capture media have many.  And it  
rewards only certain companies, who then constitute a mini-monopoly..   
(correct me if wrong)

Rob\

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