[Adrian Hauser]

Hi,
Im breaking my own poll rules here but in a natural response to the above framelink query i cut out a prior thread.

I tried the Framelink AVI to DPX mode on a PC and it worked quite well.
However I would not try to do this to long AVI sequences because when you mount the
DPX disk and begin to read the frames in another application what you are actually doing is create a bunch of new frames in a temp folder (see settings or preferences). So if you want to read 20 mins of DPX frames you
will end up quickly creating another few hundred GIG (in HD) of data on your drives.

The application seems to be really useful when working with single shots not so much for longer form work.

I spoke to BMD about this and they thought they could get the frames being written to the temp folder to inteligently cache only x amount of frames around the currently read frame. IE frames outside that area would
automatically be deleted. I dont know how far they got with this.

Im working in a windows environment where we need image sequences to help us with a di workflow, grade – despot – output files for film out. The better near RT despot tools ive seen for longform work are optimised for image sequences.

Adrian

[Adrian Hauser]

Hi,
I tried the Framelink AVI to DPX mode on a PC and it worked quite well.
However I would not try to do this to long AVI sequences because when you mount the
DPX disk and begin to read the frames in another application what you are actually doing is create a bunch of new frames in a temp folder (see settings or preferences). So if you want to read 20 mins of DPX frames you
will end up quickly creating another few hundred GIG (in HD) of data on your drives.

The application seems to be really useful when working with single shots not so much for longer form work.

I spoke to BMD about this and they thought they could get the frames being written to the temp folder to inteligently cache only x amount of frames around the currently read frame. IE frames outside that area would
automatically be deleted. I dont know how far they got with this.

It would be really cool if they could just capture Image sequences DPX TGA TIFF OpenEXR direct.
I might try and start a poll to see how many people are interested in this.

Adrian

[Adrian Hauser]

The same question goes for potientially using videohub
to downconvert a HD signal on one of its outputs.

Adrian Hauser