How to plan production and post properly

How to plan production and post properly | Jonny Elwyn - Film Editor:
When planning the technical ins and outs of your film production and post workflow its important to actually have a plan for the whole process before you being. If you just dive in and make it up as you go along you are sure to encounter, at best, a few technical hitches along the way, slowing you down and costing you time and money, or at worst outright catastrophic disaster.

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Phantom Camera Control Software v2.2 Released

Phantom Camera Control Software v2.2 Released | wolfcrow:
Support for the Phantom Miro M340 and Miro M140 camera models has been added
NI (National Instruments) Data Acquisition Unit Support
Persistent Border Data at Cine Save Feature
Image Tools – Tone Curve Function
Live, Play and Save/Convert GPU Support

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Cache-A Simul-Copy Speeds Up LTO-Tape Video Archive

Cache-A Simul-Copy Speeds Up LTO-Tape Video Archive | Storage:
Cache-A’s new Simul-Copy LTO-tape duplication and verification can shorten the time needed to create multiple LTO-tape copies and is made to serve media and entertainment users who need to rapidly and securely archive digital video content to multiple LTO-tape copies as soon as possible after they are created.

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Rec. 2020, the Color Space for Ultra High HD

Rec. 2020, the Color Space for Ultra High HD | wolfcrow:
Rec. 2020 is the designated color space for ultra high definition TV, or UHDTV, in both its variants: 4K and 8K. It gets its name from the standards classification: ITU-R Recommendation BT.2020. Rec stands for ‘recommendation’.

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Exclusive Webinar: Find Out Everything On-set Professionals Need to Know About Color Correction

Exclusive Webinar: Find Out Everything On-set Professionals Need to Know About Color Correction by Jeremiah Karpowicz:
As working professionals, I'm sure you're all aware of how complex color correction has become. With so many different options, it can be a challenge to establish what will work best for you and your production. Luckily, Juan Carlos Ortiz-Duran and Michael Forrest know a thing or two about how to navigate this landscape. The two joined us for a live webinar where they discussed...

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Who's Who on a Movie Crew?

Who's Who on a Movie Crew? on Vimeo Video School on Vimeo:
Making a video can be a one person production but the more elaborate your ideas get, the more likely you'll need a crew to execute your vision. In this video, we give you a rundown of the basics of how all the work is divided up on a basic crew.

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Fandev CuteDCP - An After Effects DCP exporter

Fandev CuteDCP - An After Effects DCP exporter
CuteDCP is a DCP (Digital Cinema Package) creation tool for After Effects. CuteDCP is an exporting (output module) plug-in which allows users to create DCPs from any file imported into After Effects and reduces the number of steps creating a DCP to a minimum.

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Colour Grading Tutorials, Tips & Tales

Colour Grading Tutorials, Tips & Tales | Jonny Elwyn - Film Editor:
It has been a while since I’ve been able to do post a round up of all the best colour grading resources that have come online lately, so this might end up as quite a long post. But that just means more great stuff in one place.

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Color Grading and DI on Visual Effects Heavy Movies

Color Grading and DI on Visual Effects Heavy Movies | Premiumbeat.com:
This summer’s most spectacular blockbuster spectacle Pacific Rim, from director Guillermo del Toro, featuring massive robots duking it out with giant monsters from the sea was given its final spit and polish by Maxine Gervais, colorist at Warner Bros. Motion Picture Imaging. Taking on a movie of this size is no easy thing.

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solutions for problems with QuickTime files in After Effects CC (12.0) because of conflict with DVCPROHDVideoOutput QuickTime component

solutions for problems with QuickTime files in After Effects CC (12.0) because of conflict with DVCPROHDVideoOutput QuickTime component | After Effects region of interest:
This problem occurs because QT32 Server, the process that After Effects uses to read and write QuickTime files, is crashing. One cause of QT32 Server crashing is a bad interaction with the QuickTime video out system when the Apple DVCPROHDVideoOutput QuickTime component is installed.

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Avid Media Composer to Assimilate Scratch Roundtrip Workflow

Avid Media Composer to Assimilate Scratch Roundtrip Workflow | Premiumbeat.com:
If you’re doing high end post production work, chances are you might be using both Avid (for editing) and Scratch (for color grading and compositing). The video tutorial below demonstrates how to bring your Avid video editing projects into Scratch for finishing.

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An Overview and Comparison of 16 External Video Recorders

An Overview and Comparison of 16 External Video Recorders
This article is a simple side-by-side comparison of some of the major external recorders in the market today. The goal is to provide you a birds-eye view that will make your purchasing decision a whole lot easier.

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Cat 8 cable nears the gate

Cat 8 cable nears the gate
While “Category 8,” the classification for the next-generation twisted-pair cabling specifications, is still in the development stage, the outlook looks quite positive that it will be specified to 2 GHz, four times today’s bandwidth of 500 MHz, promising a new copper speedway for users who need high-capacity, but shorter interconnects.

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Crossbar's RRAM to boast terabytes of storage, faster write speeds than NAND

Crossbar's RRAM to boast terabytes of storage, faster write speeds than NAN
Hardware makers often sing the praises of their latest and greatest flash memory, but the folks at Crossbar are ready to show them up with resistive RAM (RRAM) that they've been quietly working on. Compared to NAND, RRAM comes in at half the size and boasts 20 times faster write speeds (140MB/s), reads data at 17MB per second, guzzles 20 times less power and has 10 times more endurance. Since RRAM is non-volatile memory, it can keep data even when it's powered off, á la NAND. As if that weren't enough, 3D stacking construction allows for several terabytes of storage, endowing one 200 x 200mm 200mm2 chip with one terabyte.

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The Avid-Red Workflow (Part Two): Finishing from Avid Media Composer

The Avid-Red Workflow (Part Two): Finishing from Avid Media Composer
In Part One we looked at how to process R3D files in Redcine-X Pro to Avid Media Composer. In this part of the Avid-Red workflow, we’ll look at how to round-trip from Avid to Redcine-X Pro, and also how to work with the AMA workflow for Red.

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The Avid-Red Workflow: From Redcine-X Pro to Avid Media Composer

The Avid-Red Workflow: From Redcine-X Pro to Avid Media Composer | wolfcrow:
Red cameras shoot 4K and above (though you can shoot low-rez footage too), and the typical challenge is in dealing with R3D files in their RAW format until the last possible moment. Some applications like Adobe Premiere Pro can deal with Red files natively, and create projects that match those specifications. Avid Media Composer cannot create a project greater than 1080p.

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After Effects CC Harnasses Your Network As A Render Farm

After Effects CC Harnasses Your Network As A Render Farm:
If you’ve been working on your own project and your effects are taking forever to render on your computer. You either have to go away for lunch or coffee while it renders out your sequence, or invest in a pricy render farm rentals when going to your final render.  But Adobe has created a way for independent filmmakers to harness their networks and turn them into their own custom render farm thanks to Adobe After Effects Network Rendering.

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Importing Premiere Pro CC DNxHD MXF Files into Avid Media Composer

Importing Premiere Pro CC DNxHD MXF Files into Avid Media Composer | Fallen Empire:
Premiere Pro CC introduced deep support for Avid’s DNxHD file format wrapped in Op1a MXF containers. To the uninitiated this may seem fine for cross-NLE workflows but there is an issue with importing these files into Avid Media Composer. Op1a MXF allow a user to wrap audio and video tracks together in one file while Avid, on the other hand, relies on OpAtom MXF which is a multi-file format that splits video from audio and connects them with metadata.

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The Avid Media Composer Export Guide (Part Two): Exporting Projects

The Avid Media Composer Export Guide (Part Two): Exporting Projects | wolfcrow:
In Part One we looked at how to export a sequence as a video from Avid Media Composer. In this part we’ll look at how to export project sequences as-is to third-party software for finishing.

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Magic Lantern - how the revolutionary firmware for Canon's DSLRs really works?

Magic Lantern - how the revolutionary firmware for Canon's DSLRs really works? - motionVFX Blog:
Magic Lantern is a great software and this amazing add-on completely changed the video quality and the possibilities of many Canon's DSLR cameras. If you wonder how Magic Lantern works, you should really watch this video. It features Georg Hofstetter and Michael Zoller who talk about the firmware and presents a live demonstration of Magic Lantern, showing some of its unique functionalities and covers the hardware and software internals of Canon’s camera operating system DryOS. From the video you will also learn that programming your Canon camera is quite similar to programming any embedded ARM device in plain C. If you make the decision to mod your camera you should be aware of some legal aspects, but this topic is also discussed in the video.

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