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Red Giant Color Suite, with Magic Bullet Looks 2.5 and Colorista II

Needables
  • Sony Alpha a7S Compact Interchangeable Lens Digital Camera
    Sony Alpha a7S Compact Interchangeable Lens Digital Camera
    Sony
  • Panasonic LUMIX DMC-GH4KBODY 16.05MP Digital Single Lens Mirrorless Camera with 4K Cinematic Video (Body Only)
    Panasonic LUMIX DMC-GH4KBODY 16.05MP Digital Single Lens Mirrorless Camera with 4K Cinematic Video (Body Only)
    Panasonic
  • TASCAM DR-100mkII 2-Channel Portable Digital Recorder
    TASCAM DR-100mkII 2-Channel Portable Digital Recorder
    TASCAM
  • The DV Rebel's Guide: An All-Digital Approach to Making Killer Action Movies on the Cheap (Peachpit)
    The DV Rebel's Guide: An All-Digital Approach to Making Killer Action Movies on the Cheap (Peachpit)
    by Stu Maschwitz

Entries in Adobe After Effects (83)

Monday
Jan212008

Thanks again Apple

Don't update to QuickTime 7.4

Apparently the new DRM-checking routine will stop your After Effects render after ten minutes because it thinks you're trying to hack your own file. And since Adobe finds out about Quicktime updates the same day you and I do, here we are.

Ahem.

Someday: The ProLost Quicktime rant from hell. But not today. Because today it goes without saying.

Friday
Jan182008

Magnum: The Edit Detector

Lloyd Alvarez has just released a super handy DV Rebel tool called Magnum—The Edit Detector. It's a script for After Effects CS3 that automatically finds edits in a layer by analyzing the imagery. It then either marks the edits with layer markers or slices the layer at the cut points.

The latter of course is a perfect first step to a DV Rebel grading workflow. Now you can easily get your cut into After Effects without worrying about EDLs or XML or whatever.

This process is known as "scene detection" in high-end grading systems, and now you've got in in After Effects. And it's free-as-in-beer. As in, Lloyd, I owe you one.

Monday
Jan072008

Stu at Macworld

Important edit: It's Wednesday, not Tuesday, that I'll be speaking both at the Peachpit booth and the FCPUG SuperMeet! D'oh. Further edit: I've updated the ProLost Google calendar with the correct info.

I will be mouthing off at Macworld SF next week.

On Wednesday at noon I'll be talking at the Peachpit booth about the good old Rebel's Guide.

Later that day I'll be rappin' at at the Macworld FCPUG SuperMeet (which is being sponsored in part by Adobe—figure that one out!). Doors open at 5 pm, event starts at 7 pm.

Thursday
Jan032008

Panalog

The Panavision Genesis camera shoots uncompressed 10-bit HD encoded in a logarithmic color space known as Panalog. Visual effects artists working with these images may want to convert the panalog images to linear floating point and back as a part of their workflow.

At The Orphanage, we’ve always used hard-coded panalog LUTs (based on those supplied by Panavision) for these conversions. But it occurred to me that the format is similar enough to Cineon log that one might be able to find settings in a standard log/lin tool that match the Panavision transform.

Sure enough, a little playing resulted in about 99% success. I got my Cineon log/lin conversions close enough to be within a 10-bit code value of a match to Panavision’s own LUTs.

The After Effects settings are:

10 Bit Black Point: 0
Internal Black Point: 0.0
10 Bit White Point: 681
Internal White Point: 1.0
Gamma 1.480
Highlight Rolloff: 0

The Shake settings are the same, but Shake has a more ‘nuther gamma setting called rNGamma which you should leave at the default of 0.60, and multiplies the rDGamma value internally by 1/1.7, so you should use a value of 1.70/1.480 or 1.14865.

Download the After Effects (CS3+) Animation Presets

Download the Shake Macros

Nuke version coming eventually maybe possibly!

Update: Download the undocumented, untested Nuke gizmos!

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