{
 "id": "redcode-raw-r3d-media-file-2",
 "name": "Redcode RAW (R3D) Media File",
 "family": "red-digital-pictures",
 "category": "audio",
 "identifiers": {
  "extensions": [
   "r3d"
  ],
  "puid": [
   "fmt/1038"
  ],
  "wikidata": [
   "Q136717835"
  ],
  "signatures": [
   {
    "name": "R3D v2",
    "sequences": [
     {
      "position": "bof",
      "offset": 4,
      "max_offset": 0,
      "pattern": "52454432{2}5232"
     }
    ]
   }
  ]
 },
 "status": "unknown",
 "summary": "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.",
 "projects": [
  {
   "name": "PRONOM fmt/1038",
   "url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/PRONOM/fmt/1038",
   "kind": "format-doc"
  },
  {
   "name": "Wikidata Q136717835",
   "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q136717835",
   "kind": "wiki"
  }
 ],
 "provenance": {
  "sources": [
   "pronom",
   "wikidata"
  ]
 },
 "updated": "2026-10-20",
 "version": "2",
 "aliases": [],
 "structure": [],
 "parsers": [],
 "tools": [
  {
   "name": "FFmpeg",
   "url": "https://ffmpeg.org",
   "license": "LGPL-2.1-or-later / GPL-2.0-or-later",
   "open_source": true,
   "reads": true,
   "writes": false,
   "via": "red-digital-pictures"
  },
  {
   "name": "Blackmagic Fusion",
   "url": "https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/products/fusion",
   "reads": true,
   "writes": false,
   "license": "freeware",
   "via": "red-digital-pictures"
  },
  {
   "name": "Final Cut Pro X",
   "url": "https://www.apple.com/final-cut-pro/",
   "reads": true,
   "writes": false,
   "license": "proprietary license",
   "via": "red-digital-pictures"
  },
  {
   "name": "Media Composer",
   "url": "https://avid.com/media-composer",
   "reads": true,
   "writes": false,
   "license": "proprietary license",
   "via": "red-digital-pictures"
  },
  {
   "name": "MediaRich Server",
   "url": "https://equilibrium.com/mediarichserver/",
   "reads": true,
   "writes": false,
   "via": "red-digital-pictures"
  },
  {
   "name": "Microsoft Photos",
   "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q26328552",
   "reads": true,
   "writes": false,
   "license": "Microsoft end-user license agreement",
   "via": "red-digital-pictures"
  },
  {
   "name": "PhotoRec",
   "url": "http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/PhotoRec",
   "reads": true,
   "writes": false,
   "license": "GNU General Public License",
   "open_source": true,
   "via": "red-digital-pictures"
  }
 ],
 "conversions": [
  {
   "to": "flac-free-lossless-audio-codec-1-2-1",
   "tool": "FFmpeg",
   "command": "ffmpeg -i in.r3d out.flac",
   "fidelity": "partial",
   "losses": "Audio track only: the video is dropped.",
   "url": "https://ffmpeg.org",
   "via": "red-digital-pictures"
  },
  {
   "to": "waveform-audio",
   "tool": "FFmpeg",
   "command": "ffmpeg -i in.r3d out.wav",
   "fidelity": "partial",
   "losses": "Audio track only: the video is dropped.",
   "url": "https://ffmpeg.org",
   "via": "red-digital-pictures"
  },
  {
   "to": "mpeg-1-2-audio-layer-3",
   "tool": "FFmpeg",
   "command": "ffmpeg -i in.r3d out.mp3",
   "fidelity": "lossy",
   "losses": "Lossy re-encoding.",
   "url": "https://ffmpeg.org",
   "via": "red-digital-pictures"
  },
  {
   "to": "ogg",
   "tool": "FFmpeg",
   "command": "ffmpeg -i in.r3d out.ogg",
   "fidelity": "lossy",
   "losses": "Lossy re-encoding.",
   "url": "https://ffmpeg.org",
   "via": "red-digital-pictures"
  },
  {
   "to": "mpeg-4-part-14",
   "tool": "FFmpeg",
   "command": "ffmpeg -i in.r3d out.mp4",
   "fidelity": "lossy",
   "losses": "Re-encoded with lossy codecs by default; try `-c copy` to remux without re-encoding when the codecs fit the container.",
   "url": "https://ffmpeg.org",
   "via": "red-digital-pictures"
  },
  {
   "to": "matroska-1-4",
   "tool": "FFmpeg",
   "command": "ffmpeg -i in.r3d out.mkv",
   "fidelity": "lossy",
   "losses": "Re-encoded with lossy codecs by default; try `-c copy` to remux without re-encoding when the codecs fit the container.",
   "url": "https://ffmpeg.org",
   "via": "red-digital-pictures"
  },
  {
   "to": "webm",
   "tool": "FFmpeg",
   "command": "ffmpeg -i in.r3d out.webm",
   "fidelity": "lossy",
   "losses": "Re-encoded with lossy codecs by default; try `-c copy` to remux without re-encoding when the codecs fit the container.",
   "url": "https://ffmpeg.org",
   "via": "red-digital-pictures"
  }
 ],
 "samples": [],
 "claims": [],
 "verification": []
}