Arnie Schlissel
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So a good 10 hours or so after David called me, I finally have a little time to play catch up here on the COW.
David told me that your compositor is using Fusion, which is run mainly on Windows. For many years the default gamma for Windows software was 1.8. SD has a gamma of 2.2, HD has a gamma of 2.22. Have your compositor check his render settings to make sure he’s at the right gamma.
PNG is a great format for still graphics. For video & film, it’s less flexible. I think it’s limited to 8 bits per color. If your compositor can render a 10 bit or 16 bit TIFF sequence, you’ll retain more information. Better still, see if he can render a 10 bit Quicktime!
how are you bringing the PNG sequence into FCP? If you bring it directly into FCP as a bunch of stills, it might be interpreting the gamma as 1.8. If that’s the case, you can change the way FCP interprets each frame, but that might take a while. I’d use Quicktime to convert it to a ProRes or uncompressed QT. You can also do this in AE, Shake or Motion. Make sure that you’re interpreting the gamma properly.
Good luck! I’m in NYC, myself. Give us a holler at Heavy Light if you need more help.
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How did you connect the audio? For digiBeta, you should be able to use embedded audio in the SDI. That should maintain sync with the video signal, no problem.
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[David Roth Weiss] “I just heard a report confirming that Michael Jackson is still terminally dead. “
I heard it from Walter Cronkite, so it must be true!
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You can find a public domain starscape at one of NASA’s websites. Just make sure that it’s public domain!
Or you can use a program light Lightwave or Celestia to generate a star field.
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[Mark Raudonis] “It is the networks or studios who dictate a delivery format, not the post houses. So all of this debate is MOOT!”
Truer words were never typed!
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Those fees are lower than I thought.
$3k for a “lifetime” license as a Blu Ray author is not such a big investment for anyone who’s serious about working in the US market. It’s certainly a lot less than a lot of other professional certificates could cost. Ask any accountant, lawyer or doctor.
a $900 premium to the client for Blu Ray isn’t that bad, though I can see that a lot of clients (especially the clients I tend to work with!) will not want to pay it. for a studio making tens of thousands of disks, the $500 premium +$0.04 per disk is less than he cost of discussing whether or not it’s worth it.
For our current purposes, we’re only offering Blu Ray (via Toast) as screeners, with no menus or chapters. If our needs change, well, then we’d probably quickly agree to whatever the client wants to pay for! 😉
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[Erik Lindahl] “Post-houses might embrace this format given it proves to be on-par with HDCAM SR it might serve very well as a transport codec”
Not to be cynical, but post houses will embrace whichever format makes the most sense to them economically and logistically. If they can charge a client a few dollars more to use one format over another, they will offer it. If they can save a few dollars or a few minutes by using a specific format, they will.
Post houses that adopted D5 before HDCam SR was available continue to sing its praises over SR. The shops that waited and bought the SR decks poo-poo D5 in favor of SR.
Those shops that adopted DPX will trash talk TIFF. Those that standardized on TIFF will sing it’s praises over all other formats.
The same will hold true with all flavors of ProRes. For shops that have an FC centric workflow, ProRes 4444 will be the hottest thing since sliced bread. Shops that are Avid or Autodesk centric will reluctantly agree to accept it.
Arnie
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[Chris Poisson] “There’s no argument that can make me believe that what we’ve had to pay for Apple’s upgrades has been worth it. Sorry.”
If it wasn’t worth it, I wouldn’t pay it. I tend to do every 2nd or 3rd update for my Adobe products for just that reason. PS Extended was a must have, so I bought CS2. I’m still on CS2.
For my home system, I’m still on a G5, so I’m sticking at FCS 2 until I buy a new Mac. But at work, I’m going to push the “writer of the checks” to upgrade our 1 Intel ASAP. It’s worth $300 just to be able to advertise 4k color correction. Especially since we like to brag that we can record out to film at 4k.
Arnie
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I think you need to scroll down! 😉
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I totally agree. Well worth $300, or even $1000. And the new flavors of ProRes look to be worth the price of admission, as well. And the improvements of Motion, too.
Color coding tabs? Cute, but I wouldn’t have paid for it.
Now, where’s my nodal compositing system in Motion?
Arnie
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