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Introducing Pihlaja View – a DPX Viewer and an EDL Tool
Introducing Pihlaja View 0.9 beta
a DPX Viewer and an EDL ToolI used to do some film scanning and grading with a DaVinci 2k, a Spirit DataCine and Phantom Transfer Engine combo. The company was kind of small, and kind of indie, if you’d compare it to the bigger international companies. There weren’t huge resources available so it was good, if you could come up with clever solutions for doing stuff. I wasn’t quite happy with the existing free DPX viewers and the bigger units (Baselight, Scratch) we’re usually occupied with something more important than checking if the scans we’re ok. So, I decided I’d try if I could make my own DPX viewer as I was pretty good at coding.
I also eventually wrote a little EDL tool for sorting out CMX3600 EDLs for data scanning. I combined the DPX viewer and the EDL editor into one little proprietary utility called Pihlaja View. Now I’ve finally released the first public beta version 0.9.
And as it turned out to take a little too much of my time, I decided to put a little website up, to see if some people would be interested in buying it for a small fee. I don’t think there will be that many customers, as this is really a niché product, and kind of an old school one too. But if there’s some need for this type of indie software, I might consider adding more features and maybe someday make a basic offline/online editor out of it.
Currently there are not that many features, but the ones that are there, are pretty polished. The dual viewing of two image sequences side by side, is propably the most differentiating feature.
Go check the website at https://pihlaja.org/ and see the Features, Screenshots and Videos sections to find out more. (If you watch the video, please click the Vimeo link to see it in HD. The embedded version on my website is only SD.)
I’ll list some of the main features here:
-only available for Mac OS X 10.5 (Intel) at the moment, other platforms will come laterDPX viewer
-fast loading of 10 bit DPX files
-also supports PNG, TIFF, SGI, JPEG and others
-good handling of image sequences
-shows timecode derived from the number in the filename
-supports 24, 25, 30 drop frame, 30 fps timecode
-a fast, image sequence and timecode aware file chooser
-custom OpenGL based user interface
-fast zooming and panning, fullscreen mode with TAB
-dual view for comparing two image sequences in sync
-image sequence copier/renamer with mark in/out
-basic Quicktime export with burn in TCELD tool
-CMX3600 EDLs only
-a quick preset for preparing EDLs for scanning
-combine multiple EDLs into one
-supports multiple framerates and conversion between them
-adding handles
-combine overlapping events, or events that are closer than given number of framesSee rest of the features on the website, and do check out the video to see it in action. Here’s a direct link to Vimeo to see the DPX side in (blurry) HD:
https://vimeo.com/23530818https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FISeeeRgfYE
And here’s a video of the EDL side:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TU4QAnED678I’ll be happy to hear your comments, criticism, feedback and feature requests too.
Jonas Kivi
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AWESOME! WELL DONE!
Can you consolidated DPX’s based on an EDL? I would definately buy it NOW if it could! (-:
Well done though, very clean.
Toby
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Sorry, meant to say ‘Can you consildate…’
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Thanks for the feedback!
Currently it can’t do that, but I’ve obviously been thinking of adding it. That was one of the things that made this release a beta. It should be a relatively easy thing to do…
Consolidating with an EDL would make this a really small and simple online-editor sort of thing.
So, now that you’ve mentioned it… how would you prefer it? Should it put the files into one folder, and number them according to the master timecode of the EDL? Or would it be better if it just copied the DPXs to folders named after the VTs on the EDL?
Both options will propably be supported, and also other options with naming the files, but I’m just wondering which is the preferred method for most people.
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Great!
Reels are impotant, so ideally you would specify source folder(s), specify and EDL, and specify a destination folder. The dpx files from 001 would be copied into a folder called 001 and so on…
Ideally they would NOT be renamed by default, but it would be nice to have options maybe?
Best,
Toby
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Ok.
Again, thanks for the feedback. I’ll see when I get the time to implement this.
I actually needed something like that a year ago, but since it wasn’t ready then, I used other options… (Like brute force… Well, actually just a combination of other software and 10-bit .mov files, which was a bit of a let down as a workflow.)
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