Phantom 10bit Packed Cine and Resolve 8.1

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Phantom 10bit Packed Cine and Resolve 8.1

Posted by Dave Pickett on November 21, 2011 at 6:43 pm

Hello Folks,

Prepping for an upcoming Phantom grade and noticed the files and images are coming up differently from Phantom jobs from last year. The Camera Assistant and I are discussing if its the Packed Cine 10bit setting they used not translating to the current Resolve. There is a third party app “Glue Tools” that will transcode but I am surprised at the disparity at the outset. My config is my standard 1920×1080 23.98 10bit. And LUT or no LUT the images are more hipstamatic/reversal than anything I have seen as data to date. Considering it is a food shoot that will not do.

Any insight would be greatly appreciated.

Dave Pickett
Colorist
Jam Edit – Atlanta
http://www.jamedit.com
http://www.davepickett.com

Anders Holck replied 13 years, 9 months ago 4 Members · 7 Replies
7 Replies

Dwaine Maggart
November 21, 2011 at 7:43 pm

Hi Dave,

We were recently made aware of Resolve apparently behaving differently in the way it reads packed and unpacked Phantom Cine files. We are looking into it.

Dwaine Maggart
Blackmagic Design DaVinci Support
Anders Holck
November 23, 2011 at 1:56 pm

Sounds great, we are always using packed.
Let me know if you need any test files.

Also Vision research is prepping the new SMPTE Timecode firmware for the Phantom FLEX, any incentive for supporting that?

Best
Anders Holck
Dave Pickett
November 23, 2011 at 4:43 pm

Thanks Dwaine. It seems to playback fine but the color science is off. We have been advised to use Glue Tools as an interim option. Have you heard of anything better?

Dave

Dave Pickett
Colorist
Jam Edit – Atlanta
http://www.jamedit.com
http://www.davepickett.com
Anders Holck
January 31, 2012 at 11:14 pm

Hi Dwaine,
Any updates to this you can share?
.cine performance is really great, the colors are not 🙁

Please if possible fix the input color science for .cine packed, and support the new FLEX smpte TC.

Best
Anders
Dan Lachevre
July 16, 2012 at 2:24 am

Any updates to this issue? We are attempting to transcode Flex fines and have the same issue. Are there any LUTs available we can apply?
Anders Holck
July 16, 2012 at 7:02 am

I believe its fixed in Resolve 9, but that hasn’t been confirmed yet.
You can “batch unpack” in Vision Research PCC, which is how I tend to fix it. Unpacked material looks perfect besides being a little unsaturated.
Haven’t heard if SMPTE TC will be implemented for .Cine files, but really hope its in Resolve 9 as well.
Anders Holck
August 7, 2012 at 12:14 am

10 bit packed works great in Resolve 9 beta, but SMPTE timecode does not seem to be implemented…yet

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