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Format

Redcode RAW (R3D) Media File

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Summary

Name
Redcode RAW (R3D) Media File
Version
2
Identifiers
PUID: fmt/1038
Format type
  • Audio
  • Video
Description
REDCODE RAW (R3D) is a proprietary multimedia audio/video file format owned by the Red Digital Cinema Camera Company and featuring lossy compression for video contents and lossless for audio contents. It is used as native recording format of Red digital cameras and recorded on proprietary Hard Disk Drives, CompactFlash cards or SSD drives, but can be extracted from there and be trivially handled in any file-based audio/video, IT or home environments.
File extensions
r3d
Submitted by
Digital Preservation Department / The National Archives

Relationships

Is subsequent version of

Internal signatures

R3D v2

Description
BOF, offset 4: RED2{2}R2
Provenance
http://www.red.com/learn/red-101/redcode-file-format http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/REDCODE

Byte sequences

Min Frag Length
Absolute from BOF
Offset
4
Max offset
0
Byte Sequence
52454432{2}5232
Endianness
None

Changelog

  • V90

    Release date
    30 March 2017

    • Added format

      Redcode RAW (R3D) Media File 2: Full entry added.

    • Added signature

      Redcode RAW (R3D) Media File 2: Signature developed through PRONOM Research.