[Joakim Ziegler]

Name Mangler is a decent tool for batch rename operations in Mac OS. Does sequential rename, search and replace in filenames, and a bunch more.

https://manytricks.com/namemangler/

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Joakim Ziegler – Postproduction Supervisor

[Joakim Ziegler]

Rec.709 is nowhere near the size of the P3 space. Rec.709 is missing something like 40% of the P3 space’s colors, if I remember correctly. There’s a pretty big difference.

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Joakim Ziegler – Postproduction Supervisor

[Joakim Ziegler]

Ah, yes, if the original is edited in interlace after adding the 3:2 pulldown, you’re in quite a bit more trouble. Of course, telling people they SHOULDN’T DO THAT over and over again doesn’t seem to have much effect, sadly.

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Joakim Ziegler – Postproduction Supervisor

[Joakim Ziegler]

Sascha, it seems to me you’re going about this a bit the wrong way. There’s no need for interlace in this case, and in fact any real time conversion will get it wrong.

What you should be doing is a reverse pulldown on the original material, to get a 23.976 fps progressive stream, and then playing back that stream at 25.00 fps, and separately pitching/stretching the sound to get it to match. That way, you’ll work with progressive frames throughout, and you’ll achieve the maximum possible quality. Just make sure you convert the sound with a high-quality tool. Protools can do this, but there are also several smaller/cheaper utilities that do it.

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Joakim Ziegler – Postproduction Supervisor

[Joakim Ziegler]

I have printed to a couple of Cinevators, including the one at Technicolor, are you doing direct to print, or printing to negative? We mostly did direct to print, from log files, and we found the LUT was similar to the one we used for ArriLasers in other places. Of course, to get 100% accuracy, you’d have to profile the Cinevator.

I haven’t used the Cinevator’s rec.709 mode, but as far as I know, it does have one.

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Joakim Ziegler – Postproduction Supervisor

[Joakim Ziegler]

Just beware that the Lindy box is USB1.1, and will thus not be suitable for things like hard drives, etc. (although keyboards, mice, and other HIDs will work fine).

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Joakim Ziegler – Postproduction Supervisor

[Joakim Ziegler]

David, do you have a reference for these projectors being used as references in post? I’m curious because they seem to be fairly directly aimed at the home theater market.

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Joakim Ziegler – Postproduction Supervisor

[Joakim Ziegler]

Excellent news! Were there changes from RC1?

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Joakim Ziegler – Postproduction Supervisor

[Joakim Ziegler]

There’s also the ProjectionDesign cineo32, which has rec.709 and is quite cheap (22k dollars or so), or the cineo32 LED, which has DCI gamut, slightly more expensive (27k dollars, I think), but will only get you up to about 120″ diagonal, because of the weaker (but wider-gamut) LED light source.

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Joakim Ziegler – Postproduction Supervisor

[Joakim Ziegler]

Compressor can actually do a really good job, but it’s a bit slow on the highest quality setting.

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Joakim Ziegler – Postproduction Supervisor