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| | | | |  | Article: Colorgrading Round-Upby Dennis Kutchera 5 days ago Apple FCPX or Not: The Debate Colorgrading Round-Up Dennis Kutchera went to Vegas with a goal - to be tantalized by the new colour-grading options - in essence, to cheat on his beloved Avid. What hap+2 | @Adam Welsh
by Barend Onneweer 4 hours ago
Hi Adam. I find your comment has some confusing and some incorrect statements. You are right when you say that the job of a colourist has evolved over the years with technology. You don't give any arg
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| | | |  | Newbie workflow.by Carl Nenzen Loven 4 weeks agoSo I haven't even started trying DaVinci resolve, when a friend of mine opened up his studio to work with Assimilator. Problem is he has no time to show me how it works, and google is not helping me. | Re: Newbie workflow.
by Barend Onneweer 3 weeks ago
What you want to do is put all your clips on a single layer in FCP and export a CMX 3600 EDL. Load all the source footage into Scratch and 'load conform'. You'll find a lot of walkthroughs here: http:
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| | | |  | The New Baselight FCP forumby Dennis Kutchera 4 weeks agoIt's great to see this new forum. This is a very powerful new tool for Final Cut Pro 7. But I think we will soon have to change this forum name to Baselight Plugin as Filmlight was showing their upcom | Re: The New Baselight FCP forum
by Barend Onneweer 4 weeks ago
But what I'm wondering: while grading wouldn't you have to select a clip, select the plugin and adjust parameters, for each individual shot With serious grading it's not so much about the features, mo
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| | | |  | Article: Is the New Blackmagic Cinema Camera the HDSLR Killer?by Marco Solorio 4 weeks ago DSLR Video Is the New Blackmagic Cinema Camera the HDSLR Killer Marco Solorio of OneRiver Media dissects Blackmagic Design's new Cinema Camera to see if it is in fact, the much-anticipated HDSLR-kill+3 | @Shawn Miller
by Barend Onneweer 4 weeks ago
Hi Shawn, Yes the DoF would be the same as any lens with the same aperture. But the crop factor makes that lens less wide than on a full frame chip. To get the same angle of view you'd need a much wid
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| | | |  | BMD Cinema Camera!by Paolo Castellano 4 weeks agoElegant, sophisticated and jam packed with the latest digital cinema technology, Blackmagic Cinema Camera gives your work that timeless feature film look! Blackmagic Cinema Camera features an amazing | Re: BMD Cinema Camera!
by Barend Onneweer 4 weeks ago
The resolution has nothing to do with the depth of field characteristics. I still don't see where you get the 1280x720 number. The active area of the chip is 15x8 mm which is slightly larger than a Su
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| | | | | Chroma key color conundrumby John Orchard 3 months agoHey guys! I'd consider myself a noobie when it comes to chroma key work. I've always had control over what my subjects were wearing, what colors the props were, etc. In light of that, I never had issu | Re: Chroma key color conundrum
by Barend Onneweer 3 months ago
I'd go with Dave's suggestion of changing the make-up on the face. A bright blue would probably work, as would orange. Barend Raamw3rk - independent colourist and visual effects artist
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| | | |  | 4 or 5 second rule for visual effectsby Graham Quince 3 months agoFor the longest time I've been using a rule of thumb that for FX to work, they should be on-screen no longer than 4 or 5 seconds. I swear I read this somewhere years ago but in conversation with someo | | | | |
| | | |  | Adding masks to Rotobrushed footage?by Sean Morris 3 months agoHey guys I'm working on something that I'm sure must be easy, but all my Googling and searching the forums has turned up nothing. Here's my deal. I'm working on a green screen shot where the talent is | | | | |
| | | |  | Article: 4K DI on The Girl With The Dragon Tattooby Debra Kaufman 5 months ago Cinematography 4K DI on The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo Re-teaming with director David Fincher after their successful collaboration on The Social Network, Michael Cioni and the team at Light Iron bui+1 | @michael cioni
by Barend Onneweer 4 months ago
To avoid confusion: I think you meant to say faster (more sensitive) film has larger grain and and slower (less sensitive) film has smaller grain. Raamw3rk - independent colourist and visual effects a
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| | | | | Scratch Dailies - Output Individual shots?by Marie Celis 9 months agoDoes anyone know how to output individual MXFs and or MOVs from Scratch for each shot I'm new to Scratch and I'm figuring out how to process Dailies using "Output" and "Process." I've figured out how | | | | |
| | | |  | plug in directoryby stanly boon 9 months agolet me see if i understand it . ae checks the plug in directory before starting and whatever workable plugin that happens to be there , it puts in the user interface. that means that i can dellete eff | Re: plug in directory
by Barend Onneweer 9 months ago
Indeed AE checks the plugin folder for plugins. Some effects can be directly copied into the plugin folder - but many of them come with an installer - which also installs the license. Some plugins als
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| | | |  | Strange DPX issue in AE CS5.5by Max Link 10 months agoHi everybody, I'm currently testing CS5.5, trial downloaded directly from Adobe, on a Macbook Pro 6.1 running 10.6.8. Here's the thing: On trying to import DPX sequences (1280x720p25, 10bit lin), AE d | | | | |
| | | | | SSD vs HDDby Denis Stefanides 10 months agoHello, here is my spec for new PC: MB: MSI P67A-C45 CPU: Intel Core i7-2600K, 3.40GHz CPU freezer: Coolink Corator DS RAM: Kingston 8GB (Kit 2x4GB) HyperX Blu 1600MHz DDR3 CL9 DIMM VGA: Gigabyte Gefor | Re: SSD vs HDD
by Barend Onneweer 10 months ago
The 2600 is excellent bang for the buck - good choice. Personally I'd get an SSD for the bootdisk - Intel is considered the top brand - but I don't know how the Crucial performs. There are a lot of sp
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| | | | | Change clothes on actor, one shot.by Benjamin Thompson 10 months agoI've seen this done a few times but different situations in each. This is a one shot, room to room, down stairs etc where the camera pans away and back again and when it returns the talent has a diffe | Re: Change clothes on actor, one shot.
by Barend Onneweer 10 months ago
You can always do the pan in post. Shoot completely locked off, and shoot multiple overlapping frames that you can stitch together in After Effects (you'll need to remove lens distortion using a mesh
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| | | |  | Advice on noise/ grain removalby Carlos Angeli 10 months agoHi, I ve just finished shooting some products against a chroma background with a Sony HVR-Z5. I m pleased with the overall result, but I do notice some grain in the footage. I assume this might be due | Re: Advice on noise/ grain removal
by Barend Onneweer 10 months ago
In my experience Neat Video is more effective than AE's built-in Remove Grain plugin, both for removing grain and removing compression artefacts (probably just as important when shooting the Z5). Not
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| | | |  | Suggestions on Scratch config for 3Dby Rahul Zhaveri 10 months agoHello We are looking to setup a Scratch Six on Windows for Stereo 3D work We have nVidia Quadro 6000 with SDI out daughter board Besides the Dell 24" computer display have a LG LED 3D TV 55" that we w | | | | |
| | | |  | Considering Scratchby Nigel Thompson 10 months agoIm Actually considering paying their 18k price tag later this year or early next year but want to know if anyone know if they plan on supporting video cards like AJA etc. The workflow they have wont r | | | | |
| | | | | DreamColor After Effects and CMSby Mike Fizer 10 months agoI'm coming from the still side of video with the 5Dmk2 and am wrestling with some workflow issues for Adobe After Effects (Mac with Dreamcolor APS calibration system) and color management in video. Pl | Re: DreamColor After Effects and CMS
by Barend Onneweer 10 months ago
In theory you're right. But personally I find the AE colour management and proofing to be a bit untransparent. If you want to view your material in Rec709, why not just switch the Dreamcolor to Rec709
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| | | | | LogC LUTsby Jay Mahavier 2 years agoI'm looking for a LogC to 709 LUT to load onto a HDLink Pro box. I found some LUTs available for download on the Arri website, but none of the LogC2Video LUTs are the format I need. Some of the LogC2F | Re: LogC LUTs
by Barend Onneweer 2 years ago
Just to confirm: I can't load any of the Arri LUTS in Scratch, because the supplied LUTs don't have headers. I've actually been in touch with LightIllusion about them and LightIllusion doesn't load th
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| | | | | 1U Rackmount Ultrascopeby Barend Onneweer 3 years agoHi, I'm sure people are getting mighty annoyed with question about Ultrascope hardware compatibility - but I'm investigating the possibility to put an Ultrascope board into a 1U rackmount machine. I'm | Re: 1U Rackmount Ultrascope
by Brian Huntley 3 years ago
I just purchased a 2U Rackmount CPU from Superlogics for the Ultrascope. Works great, if only a smaller monitor could be used it would be perfect. If anyone would like a detailed build I would be happ
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| | | | | Storyboard app for iPhoneby Barend Onneweer 3 years agoIt looks like this might be a great tool for on-the-road storyboarding. http: vimeo.com channels hitchcock Barend Raamw3rk - digital storytelling and visual effects | | | | |
| | | | | It's Time To Go Pro, COWby Rick Dolishny 4 years agoThe recent understandable loss of the Discrete Edit forum drove home the fact that the COW is a valuable tool for broadcast professionals. There is SO MUCH INFORMATION HERE it's unquantifiable. Lookin | Re: It's Time To Go Pro, COW
by Barend Onneweer 4 years ago
Which I guess shows how complicated this stuff is. Thus far Ron and Kathlyn have gone for a very non-elitist approach. Everyone is welcome here, from absolute n00bs ;-) to seasoned pros and Bob Zelin.
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| | | | | strobe expressionby Barend Onneweer 4 years agoSecond question for my danceclub rig... If I wanted a light to act like a stroboscope, how would I do that with an expression Wiggle is too random, and I guess the value needs to be on or off, no inte | | | | |
| | | | | Why 4k?by Alex Huber 4 years agoI had a RED conversation with a cinematographer friend last night who kept questioning me about something I really couldn't answer so I thought I would post it to this forum. This fellow is a very old | Re: Why 4k?
by Barend Onneweer 4 years ago
Ramona Howard "4K compressed to 2.7K to the onboard recording mechanism (flash)." Actually, the 2.7k number isn't the result of the wavelet compression. It has more to do with the fact that a 4k baye
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| | | | | edl conformby Joe Huggins 4 years agoWe are using Red and FCP. Once an off line is done in FCP with low res files, how do we use the edl to import the 2K R3d files for full res conform and color correct in Red Cine We know each shot can | Re: edl conform
by Barend Onneweer 4 years ago
This is still part of the unfinished post workflow. Although this thread: http: www.reduser.net forum showthread.php t=7146 suggests that a solution isn't too far off. Bar3ndRaamw3rk - digital storyte
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| | | | | Claudio Miranda tests Red vs F23by Barend Onneweer 4 years agohttp: www.claudiomiranda.com redvsf23 redvsf23.html Apparently Claudio tested a 'generation 1' version of the Red camera that was also not properly collimated. Red has already announced some major cha | Re: Claudio Miranda tests Red vs F23
by Barend Onneweer 4 years ago
The general outcome of Claudio's tests was that for a 17,5 k camera body RED performed very well. From memory the biggest flaws Claudio described were: 1) red flare artefacts (ugly ones) caused by the
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| | | | | Tutorial: Shooting for Chromakeyingby Barend Onneweer 10 years ago Lighting Design Pros Shooting for Chromakeying In addition to his tutorial on how to pull a usable matte from badly lit blue or green screens, Barend Onneweer has put together a list of things to con | Shooting for Chromakeying
by Barend Onneweer 4 years ago
Hi Steve, Although I should probably update the article a bit, the general information in it still stands. The bit about color space that you refer to is a bit oversimplified. 4:2:0 and 4:1:1 tells us
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| | | |  | RedCine and RedCode plug in for FCS2by Bob Zelin 4 years agohttp: www.red.com:80 support release_history 8 The RedCode plugin for Final Cut Pro came out FINALLY. Rob came thru. And RedCine V1.0 is out as well. It's now November 21st - about the same delayed re | | | | |
| | | | | The Red Camera/FCP workflowby thesunflower 5 years agoEveryone here is all a flutter about this little red monster. My name for it since I have to figure out the work flow... how on earth do I get the media from the camera into a FCP timeline and how lon | | | | |
| | | | | Service: Raamw3rkby Barend Onneweer 5 years agoGouda Zuid-Holland, Netherlands, The Film Animation 3D Raamw3rk Post Visual FX Motion Graphics 3D Animation Raamw3rk is the portfolio of Barend Onneweer. I am+1 | | | | |
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