fear me

Mike Curtis of hdforindies.com has called me frighteningly smart.



Mike is too kind and runs a great site. Wish I could send half the traffic your way you've sent mine Mike!



eLin — Evil Linear

One Weekend a Month

Congratulatkions to director Eric Escobar, whose short film One Weekend a Month recieved an honorable metion at this year's Sundance Film Festival!



Eric had a film in last year's Sundance as well, Night Light, which he shot DV and posted with Magic Bullet. One Weekend was shot with tha Panasonic Varicam and color corrected for a film finish in eLin.



Eric, you keep making the films and we'll keep making the software!

Spitzak down!

Bill Spitzak's linear floating point advocacy site seems to be down.



Thanks to this fun site, it is archived here.

learn you up some eLin

When eLin was in beta, I recorded three screen capture sessions demonstrating its basic functionality. Although they are long on wind and light on production value, they provide a solid introduction to eLin and decent visual examples of the benefits of compositing in a photometrically linear, extended dynsmic range color space.



First up is LA Day. Using a very early version of eLin, I show off how overbrights can be helpful in comping and color correction, even if your source material has none. You can download sample files and play along at home.



Next up is Speedo. This is another example of generating overbrights from an LDR source — this time in a motion graphics context. This one also has sample files.



Last is ePot, wherein we utilize the tireless teapot, and then later a helicopter, to show how eLin improves the compositing of 3D renders.

Thanks to Red Giant Software for hosting these files!