Monitoring 3500 x 1080 timeline

[Dave Martin]

Hi Ramona

Work with a proxy? Do you mean render a proxy in HD out of After Effects so I can view it on a monitor?

Dave Martin

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[Dave Martin]

That seems like an awfully large screen blend?

Dave Martin

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[Jeremy Garchow]

I thought so too, I just do what the staging company says.

Actually, the aspect is 6480×1080. A bit wider than I originally thought.

Jeremy

[Ramona Howard]

Dave,

Sounds very similar to the same project we are doing at the moment and writing some new tools for 🙂

Think of this much like any other post production workflow. Work with a proxies for the edit and then conform to the original content.

I ask because we can already do a conform on RaveHD, so if you have the master files (the really large ones) sitting on RaveHD (We act like a standard file server so moving frames on/off is all standard network protocols and these are standard DPX frames that can come right from AE). You can then either render out smaller 1920×1080 frames to use for your edit and standard viewing (yes on a standard display) without the scaling, giving you a very good representation of the outcome. The re-rendering or converting from the large format frames to the HD frames can either be done again in AE or right on RaveHD, as we also have those tools built in or you can just render the HD ones initially and then render out the larger frames after the edit. There isn’t one set way of doing it here and only that you have a kick ass render engine/farm to get those massive frames done quickly 🙂

On the conform, RaveHD can be responsible for conforming to the edit and splitting the large format frames up as two for playing out the dual VTR engines and SDI connections (not to be confused with Dual Link).

Let me point out that the HD frames can also be handed off to RaveHD for viewing and even downconverted to view in SD and or converted to a number of other formats (i.e, compressed Quicktimes, AVIs, etc) for sharing.

I’m sure there are a number of solutions and applications that do all this, our goal is to try to keep it all in one neat package.

Hope that gives you a few options on some ideas to get around these massive frames with or without RaveHD.

Cheers,
Ramona