Anyone know of a good workflow going from Phantom to Mac MCA 2.8.4 and then finishing in Inferno?Thus far this is my workflow...
Is there a more eloquent solution to do this involving edls and what not?Please enlighten me!
Thanks,Scotty
Glue Tools has to work better than the horrible Phantom Cine Viewer program. How is the color balance on your raw cine files? We had a lot of problems with the color (camera operator?). The last time we used the Phantom we made sure to lay off to HDCAM tape on set so we didn't have to deal with the files again.
I used the Cine Viewer to make low-quality quictktimes for the AVID. Once we had our selects our workflow was cine--->dng---->After Effects---->DPX selects for online.
I like your workflow better. The Phantom is a cool camera; we try to use it whenever we can.
I've never had to use the Phantom Cine Viewer. This is my first exposure to Phantom with Avid. The workflow I came up with is modified from what I've done with Final Cut Pro and an older version of Glue Tools. The difference is I could keep the same names and relink the new QT files and everything matched up. With Avid I would have to match everything up by eye. Kinda tedious if you ask me. Currently, Glue Tools for Phantom are more robust with FCP because they come with sequence presets and a few other slick features to integrate the two together. No such thing exists for Avid.
Regarding your question... The color balance is fine. We are basically processing everything with a slower debayer (higher quality) and RAW color. That way our colorist can work his magic.
What is dng?
Another workflow I thought of is to create an EDL on paper and make new selects with Glue Tools DPX plugin. Export the DPXs via QT and bring those into Inferno. The benefit to this is the colorist gets to work with DPX vs. QuickTime NO COMPRESSION files. It just seems better to not have the video going back and forth, in and out of systems that could potentially muck it all up. I could be wrong. This workflow certainly would take longer because you are adding a step by manually reading an EDL and exporting DPX from QT.
Do you have any other ideas?
Regards,Scotty
I like your idea of using Glue Tools to generate DPX sequences. I think the colorist would appreciate that.
DNG is a digital RAW format by Adobe. Since they are RAW files they allegedly contain more information than the DPX format, which we needed since the color temperature was so bad. Blues were green and you could hardly see yellow.
Glad you are not having that problem. That was such a mess.
Anyway, I'm not an expert but I got thrown into it when we starting having problems with the tapes that were dubbed and everyone said that they looked awful.
You could always talk to anyone who rents the camera to see if they have any tips or referrals.
Yeah, no one seems to be using the Phantom as much as let's say Red. I'm dealing with similar issues right now with Red. Tapeless workflows are not easy as of yet because things keep on changing. Thus, there are no concrete foolproof ways of doing things. It seems like workflows are cobbled together and you hope and pray they work. Anyhow, I'll prolly go for the easier way of just creating QTs from Avid and then reimporting them later or just finalizing everything in the Inferno.
Regards,
Scotty
The only quicktime codec for raw .cine files I'm finding is thru glue tools...which requires an $800 license.
Are there any other .cine conversion options for a mac, something like redRushes that can get me to DNxHD?
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