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Re: Files downloads of tests now available again

Geoff Boyle
 

Faceless bloody giant systems.

 

We’re no blocked by Dropbox for excessive bandwidth, I’ve upgraded as they suggested but we will still be limited to 200GB per day.

 

Please be patient and try again.

 

Cheers

 

Geoff Boyle NSC FBKS

Cinematographer

Netherlands

www.gboyle.nl

 

From: cml-raw-log-hdr@... <cml-raw-log-hdr@...> On Behalf Of Geoff Boyle
Sent: 23 July 2018 11:59
To: cml-raw-log-hdr@...; cml-general@...
Subject: [cml-raw-log-hdr] Files downloads of tests now available again

 

I’ve linked all the zipped folders to my Dropbox account.

 

Just follow the links from cmltests.net as usual.

 

Everything is now working fine 😊

 

Cheers

 

Geoff Boyle NSC FBKS

Cinematographer

Netherlands

www.gboyle.nl

 


Files downloads of tests now available again

Geoff Boyle
 

I’ve linked all the zipped folders to my Dropbox account.

 

Just follow the links from cmltests.net as usual.

 

Everything is now working fine 😊

 

Cheers

 

Geoff Boyle NSC FBKS

Cinematographer

Netherlands

www.gboyle.nl

 


Re: New test uploads

Geoff Boyle
 

The site will be updated in a couple of hours and that should be a permanent fix

Geoff

On Mon, 23 Jul 2018, 09:35 Geoff Boyle, <geoff.cml@...> wrote:

Blocked by supplier because of excessive use of bandwidth when my contract says unlimited bandwidth.

 

Don’t use one.com 😊

 

Working on a solution.

 

Cheers

 

Geoff Boyle NSC FBKS

Cinematographer

Netherlands

www.gboyle.nl

 

From: cml-raw-log-hdr@... <cml-raw-log-hdr@...> On Behalf Of Mark Kenfield
Sent: 23 July 2018 08:14
To: cml-raw-log-hdr@...
Subject: Re: [cml-raw-log-hdr] New test uploads

 

The test site appears to be down at the moment.


Cheers,

Mark Kenfield

Cinematographer

 

0400 044 500

 

On 22 July 2018 at 21:54, Geoff Boyle <geoff.cml@...> wrote:

This is where I screwed up, yes to the Gemini, it’ll be coming soon.

I forgot to do the Venice.

Sorry, I do have footage from the Venice at 2500, it’s stuff I shot with beta firmware and they didn’t want me to post it. I can’t see why, looks great 😊

 

Cheers

 

Geoff Boyle NSC FBKS

Cinematographer

Netherlands

www.gboyle.nl

 

From: cml-raw-log-hdr@... <cml-raw-log-hdr@...> On Behalf Of daveblackham via Cml.News
Sent: 22 July 2018 09:38
To: cml-raw-log-hdr@...
Subject: Re: [cml-raw-log-hdr] New test uploads

 

Geoff, I might have missed this along the way some where. Did you check any of the cameras in their 'low light' or high sensitivity modes. Gemini etc ?

thanks,

Dave Blackham
Esprit Film and Television Limited

 


Re: New test uploads

Geoff Boyle
 

Blocked by supplier because of excessive use of bandwidth when my contract says unlimited bandwidth.

 

Don’t use one.com 😊

 

Working on a solution.

 

Cheers

 

Geoff Boyle NSC FBKS

Cinematographer

Netherlands

www.gboyle.nl

 

From: cml-raw-log-hdr@... <cml-raw-log-hdr@...> On Behalf Of Mark Kenfield
Sent: 23 July 2018 08:14
To: cml-raw-log-hdr@...
Subject: Re: [cml-raw-log-hdr] New test uploads

 

The test site appears to be down at the moment.


Cheers,

Mark Kenfield

Cinematographer

 

0400 044 500

 

On 22 July 2018 at 21:54, Geoff Boyle <geoff.cml@...> wrote:

This is where I screwed up, yes to the Gemini, it’ll be coming soon.

I forgot to do the Venice.

Sorry, I do have footage from the Venice at 2500, it’s stuff I shot with beta firmware and they didn’t want me to post it. I can’t see why, looks great 😊

 

Cheers

 

Geoff Boyle NSC FBKS

Cinematographer

Netherlands

www.gboyle.nl

 

From: cml-raw-log-hdr@... <cml-raw-log-hdr@...> On Behalf Of daveblackham via Cml.News
Sent: 22 July 2018 09:38
To: cml-raw-log-hdr@...
Subject: Re: [cml-raw-log-hdr] New test uploads

 

Geoff, I might have missed this along the way some where. Did you check any of the cameras in their 'low light' or high sensitivity modes. Gemini etc ?

thanks,

Dave Blackham
Esprit Film and Television Limited

 


Re: New test uploads

Mark Kenfield
 

The test site appears to be down at the moment.

Cheers,

Mark Kenfield
Cinematographer

0400 044 500

On 22 July 2018 at 21:54, Geoff Boyle <geoff.cml@...> wrote:

This is where I screwed up, yes to the Gemini, it’ll be coming soon.

I forgot to do the Venice.

Sorry, I do have footage from the Venice at 2500, it’s stuff I shot with beta firmware and they didn’t want me to post it. I can’t see why, looks great 😊

 

Cheers

 

Geoff Boyle NSC FBKS

Cinematographer

Netherlands

www.gboyle.nl

 

From: cml-raw-log-hdr@... <cml-raw-log-hdr@...> On Behalf Of daveblackham via Cml.News
Sent: 22 July 2018 09:38
To: cml-raw-log-hdr@...
Subject: Re: [cml-raw-log-hdr] New test uploads

 

Geoff, I might have missed this along the way some where. Did you check any of the cameras in their 'low light' or high sensitivity modes. Gemini etc ?

thanks,

Dave Blackham
Esprit Film and Television Limited



Re: New test uploads

Geoff Boyle
 

This is where I screwed up, yes to the Gemini, it’ll be coming soon.

I forgot to do the Venice.

Sorry, I do have footage from the Venice at 2500, it’s stuff I shot with beta firmware and they didn’t want me to post it. I can’t see why, looks great 😊

 

Cheers

 

Geoff Boyle NSC FBKS

Cinematographer

Netherlands

www.gboyle.nl

 

From: cml-raw-log-hdr@... <cml-raw-log-hdr@...> On Behalf Of daveblackham via Cml.News
Sent: 22 July 2018 09:38
To: cml-raw-log-hdr@...
Subject: Re: [cml-raw-log-hdr] New test uploads

 

Geoff, I might have missed this along the way some where. Did you check any of the cameras in their 'low light' or high sensitivity modes. Gemini etc ?

thanks,

Dave Blackham
Esprit Film and Television Limited


Re: New test uploads

daveblackham@...
 

Geoff, I might have missed this along the way some where. Did you check any of the cameras in their 'low light' or high sensitivity modes. Gemini etc ?

thanks,

Dave Blackham
Esprit Film and Television Limited


Re: HDR and camera evaluations

Geoff Boyle
 

Yes I know Steve but it does give us a representation of what we need to bear in mind when shooting HDR.

 

Apart from not putting bright windows behind the talent or putting bright lights in a different part of the picture to the talent.

 

Yes, I have been watching HDT shows on my HDR TV, not the monitor, the TV in my living room.

 

Cheers

 

Geoff Boyle NSC FBKS

Cinematographer

Netherlands

www.gboyle.nl

 

From: cml-raw-log-hdr@... <cml-raw-log-hdr@...> On Behalf Of Steve Shaw
Sent: 22 July 2018 10:28
To: cml-raw-log-hdr@...
Subject: Re: [cml-raw-log-hdr] HDR and camera evaluations

 

As the display is not a HDR display, that really shows that using a gamma that is not the default Rec709 will produce the better images.
That is what a colourist does naturally.

Steve


Re: HDR and camera evaluations

Steve Shaw
 

As the display is not a HDR display, that really shows that using a gamma that is not the default Rec709 will produce the better images.
That is what a colourist does naturally.

Steve


Re: New test uploads

Geoff Boyle
 

I’ve now added Eva, Pure, Venice, Terra, Movi, Gemini, Monstro & X-H1

 

All there ins raw from, some missing from h264

 

Cheers

 

Geoff Boyle NSC FBKS

Cinematographer

Netherlands

www.gboyle.nl

 

From: cml-raw-log-hdr@... <cml-raw-log-hdr@...> On Behalf Of Geoff Boyle
Sent: 19 July 2018 17:55
To: cml-raw-log-hdr@...
Subject: Re: [cml-raw-log-hdr] New test uploads

 

I’ve added some more, it’s now Alexa Mini, BMD UMP, Canon C200 and Canon C700 6K to 4K.

 

That’s it until tomorrow.

 

Cheers

 

Geoff Boyle NSC FBKS

Cinematographer

Netherlands

www.gboyle.nl

 


HDR and camera evaluations

Geoff Boyle
 

I’ve only had a quick look at this but I thought that you’d like to see the preliminary results…

 

I’ve only looked at the Alexa so far, I’m using Resolve in ACEScct and the only grade I’m doing is a timeline colour balance to make the T16 Kodak Grey neutral.

 

Viewing is an Eizo CG318 which is 31” 4K and HDR 350, however it can simulate PQ1000.

 

With the ODT set to 709 and the monitor to 709/1886

 

Best overall look is at T16

 

Highlight retention is T11

 

Shadow detail is T32

 

With the ODT set to Rec 2020 ST2084 1000 P3 gamut clip and the monitor set to PQ1000

 

Best overall look is T11

 

Highlight retention is T2.8/T4 split

 

Shadow is still T32

 

With the ODT set to Rec 2020 and the monitor set to HLG

 

Highlight Retention is T8

 

Shadows still T32

 

The simple answer is that, bearing in mind the best overall image on screen, HDR has one stop more useable shadow detail and two and a half stops more highlight detail.

 

Or, three and a half more stops which kinda agrees with the numbers, rec 709 100nits, HDR 1000nits

 

Visually the difference is stunning.

 

Cheers

 

Geoff Boyle NSC FBKS

Cinematographer

Netherlands

www.gboyle.nl

 


Re: New test uploads

Geoff Boyle
 

I’ve added some more, it’s now Alexa Mini, BMD UMP, Canon C200 and Canon C700 6K to 4K.

 

That’s it until tomorrow.

 

Cheers

 

Geoff Boyle NSC FBKS

Cinematographer

Netherlands

www.gboyle.nl

 


New test uploads

Geoff Boyle
 

I’ve started the uploads of the new tests but I’m, pausing to give you a chance to rip the shit out of me.

 

www.cmltests.net

 

Please comment before I spend any more time.

 

Only the Alexa and BMD-UMP are finished.

 

Please also read the info page.

 

Cheers

 

Geoff Boyle NSC FBKS

Cinematographer

Netherlands

www.gboyle.nl

 


Re: RAW evaluations and graded versions

Geoff Boyle
 

I did have a plugin for Resolve that produced wonderful ProRes files.

Unfortunately when I went for a complete reinstall on a new machine I couldn’t reinstall the plugin. It needed to be registered to work and Apple had had a word with them and they no longer offer the plugin.

 

Scratch have kindly sent me a 30 day license for Scratch but unfortunately my machine doesn’t work with this license. I will chase this up once I am further down the road.

 

All the raw files are ready for upload, I’ve trimmed every shot to 1 second except for faces where they’re 5 seconds.

 

I’m waiting until Kodak get me the scans of the neg 😊

 

After they are all up and properly linked I’ll get back to making compressed versions, slightly compressed and very compressed.

 

I’ve done several of these already but I’m having second thoughts about the way I’m doing them.

 

Basically, decide which exposure is nearest to “correct” and mark it, then match every other take to it using offset only and only matching the grey patch on the Kodak chart.

 

I have been doing a timeline colour correction based on the selected frame, no exposure change but neutralising any colour shift. If anyone wants to see what it all really looks like then they can get the raw files.

 

The complication is that I’m doing this on the sequences lit with “real” tungsten, with the “substitute” ones I’m in two minds, I’m obviously not altering colour as we want to see the shift but do I match exposure to the one from the tungsten set or do I match all the substitute shots to the same stop as I used for the real light even though it may well be the wrong exposure?

 

I think that we need to see the difference.

 

I’ll also post a chart of each camera with exposure variation from measured and also what rating gives the most exposure for the lowest noise, i.e. the point where the waveform stops being fuzzy 😊 or, do I post the amount of NR at “correct” exposure that is needed to give a clean waveform?

 

Cheers

 

Geoff Boyle NSC FBKS

Cinematographer

Netherlands

www.gboyle.nl

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Re: RAW evaluations and graded versions

Paul Curtis
 


On 16 Jul 2018, at 21:31, Bob Kertesz <bob@...> wrote:
As has been touched on, there are a few windows apps that do encode
proper prores, including Nuke.
I just went to the site and did a search on ProRes and ProRes codec, and
came up with zero results.

I think they've output since v9, we're on v11 at the moment. I think all the product versions write prores (base Nuke upwards)

They output all flavours properly, including alphas and 4444 and even 4444XQ and they're Apple sanctioned.

I did mention to them at one point that they really ought to make a bigger deal of this because i stumbled on it by accident not marketing.

The only negative is that QT is quite slow under windows (in general, not Nuke specifically)

cheers
Paul

Paul Curtis, VFX & Post | Canterbury, UK


Re: RAW evaluations and graded versions

Virgil Kastrup
 


Yes. Exactly the reason I recommended Scratch as opposed to the reverse engineered ffmpeg ProRes.

On Tue, Jul 17, 2018 at 4:16 AM Clark Graff <clark@...> wrote:

>>>As has been touched on, there are a few windows apps that do encode
>>>proper prores, including Nuke.

 

 

I believe that Scratch can OUTPUT ProRES correctly. I have done it on a few jobs without issue.

 

~clark

 

Clark Graff

Film Maker- Production Designer – VFX Sup – DIT – Workflow – Editor – Propellerhead

SoCal ~ Toronto ~ Vancouver

805-253-5496 cel

www.4nr.com

 

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Re: RAW evaluations and graded versions

David Rasberry
 

"The Video Output Formats section listing, including ProRes, has a footnote saying "video codecs may require installing additional libraries or drivers."

What libraries/drivers (if any) have you found that it needs to use the various ProRes output flavors it supports?

The product looks good on the site, lots of features, is inexpensive as these things go.

-Bob

Bob Kertesz
BlueScreen LLC
Hollywood, California"

The only codec I needed to load externally was Cineform. Used to be I just installed the GoPro app and it included the libraries, but the most recent version didn't. I found the last versions on Cnet. 

I'm definitely not in a class with you guys, so I'm mostly just a fly on the wall observer here. Audio and Video systems engineer by trade. Serious hobby filmmaker mostly shooting simple docs.
I am currently shooting with a Digital Bolex and my workflow is a combination of Davinci Resolve for raw processing, Cineform DI out of Resolve, edit with Lightworks from "best light" corrected Cineform DI's.  

I use FS4k for transcoding compressed video formats to Cineform, Mostly casual footage shot with an iPad and Iographer rig.

Recently been experimenting with Slimraw "lossless" 10 bit log compressed raw. It is a Cineon log curve and works well with the color managed transforms in Resolve.





Re: RAW evaluations and graded versions

Mark Kenfield
 

Until (literally) anyone comes out with a simple drag-and-drop (and folder structure free) alternative. I highly doubt that Prores is going anywhere.

I'm still at a loss as to why not a single codec manufacturer has picked up on the significance of Prores's drag and drop simplicity. It's the central pillar upon which its success stands.

Cheers,

Mark Kenfield 
Cinematographer 
Melbourne

0400 044 500


Re: RAW evaluations and graded versions

Jeff Kreines
 

I also am a fan of Cineform RAW. It’s now open-source and well supported in Resolve. 

Jeff Kreines

Sent from iPhone. 

On Jul 17, 2018, at 3:13 AM, Paul Curtis <paul@...> wrote:



On 16 Jul 2018, at 22:01, Simon Burley <simon@...> wrote:
Some time ago, I spent some time working on some improvements for the DCP encoder we developed in-house. We started with an open source JPEG2000 encoder which consistently made better pictures than a couple of (incredibly expensive) hardware DCP encoders and our work improved things further. So it's definitely not a case of you get what you pay for :-)

There's a lot to be said for open source and lots of developers contributing when it comes to quality/features/innovation.

But reverse engineering a proprietary 'standard' is probably not ideal in this case - there's no guarantee of broad compatibility or future robustness IMHO.

Personally i'd still prefer to see Cineform take over because i do believe it's better quality. However it doesn't have a fruit behind it and also now that Adobe integrated it into their applications their version of the codec appears slightly different to the previous one and caused me some issues with past footage. Also i don't know if the codec itself is standalone anymore.

cheers
Paul

Paul Curtis, VFX & Post | Canterbury, UK



Re: RAW evaluations and graded versions

Paul Curtis
 



On 16 Jul 2018, at 22:01, Simon Burley <simon@...> wrote:
Some time ago, I spent some time working on some improvements for the DCP encoder we developed in-house. We started with an open source JPEG2000 encoder which consistently made better pictures than a couple of (incredibly expensive) hardware DCP encoders and our work improved things further. So it's definitely not a case of you get what you pay for :-)

There's a lot to be said for open source and lots of developers contributing when it comes to quality/features/innovation.

But reverse engineering a proprietary 'standard' is probably not ideal in this case - there's no guarantee of broad compatibility or future robustness IMHO.

Personally i'd still prefer to see Cineform take over because i do believe it's better quality. However it doesn't have a fruit behind it and also now that Adobe integrated it into their applications their version of the codec appears slightly different to the previous one and caused me some issues with past footage. Also i don't know if the codec itself is standalone anymore.

cheers
Paul

Paul Curtis, VFX & Post | Canterbury, UK