Posts Tagged ‘Red Giant Software’

Interesting article on color sub-sampling

Thursday, July 1st, 2010

ProVideo Coalition.com: Adobe Beyond Adobe by Adobe | Vendor Blog.

This post has a very easy to understand explanation on the differences between 4:4:4, 4:2:2, and 4:2:0 color sub-sampling in video.

It also points out that the Canon HD-DSLR cameras shoot in a compressed MPEG-2 format with a color space of 4:2:0, which doesn’t necessarily mean that you get “more color” if you convert the clips to 4:2:2 or 4:4:4.

One of the best reasons I can see for converting or transcoding the H264 encoded Canon clips to something like ProRes422 in software like Grinder, is that the resulting uncompressed file (or more correctly less compressed) file will give you more wiggle room to push pixels around in compositing and/or color grading.

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Latest project: “CONFINED”, a horror short shot on the Canon 7D

Thursday, April 15th, 2010

The weekend before last, David and I worked on our next project in the pipeline, the horror short “CONFINED”.    It was a two camera shoot, using the new Canon 7D HD-DSLR.  David was Second Unit Director, and I was DIT for the single day shoot, as well as Post/VFX Supervisor for the project.  I also got a chance to work with a beta of Red Giant Software’s Grinder, which does a great job of transcoding the heavily compressed H264 QuickTime clips into Apple ProRes 422. For ease of editing, and to give us a bit more to work with when doing VFX and Grading.

The project is currently in the edit stage, I’ll post a bit more when it’s back in-house for finishing. Until then, you can catch up with the news and watch the brand-spanking new trailer here:  CONFINED Blog & Trailer

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L’Accordatore Production Diary

Thursday, December 10th, 2009

LAccordatore The Tuner Production Diary.

Here’s a link to the production blog for the short film that we just finished, it’s now going out for consideration to festivals.  We should have our IMDB listing in the next few weeks as we’re being considered for inclusion by the Rhode Island International Film Festival.

I’m really proud of the work we did, not only the compositing, but the color grade as well.  This was the first project where I’ve had 4k RED footage to play with!   Final color grading was done in AfterEffects CS4 at 4K in 32-bit float using a combination of standard tools and Magic Bullet Colorista.  Final render was 1080/24p in ProRes 422HQ.  Finishing for DVD and other media is being done by our friends at FINI in NYC.

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HDR-VFX in the Red Giant NAB 2009 Reel

Tuesday, April 21st, 2009

If you’re at NAB, stop by the Red Giant Software booth [SL2529H], because I’m in their 2009 NAB Reel!  

You can can see a short clip of my work as colorist on the HD feature “Steam”.  Or, if you’re not in Las Vegas, you can also see the reel in the Red Giant Software Video Gallery.

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