Mazze

Hi all,

have a look at ICE, Marquise Technologies' reference player.

It can playback all kinds of (raw-) formats, but mainly it's being used to QC DCP and IMF packages,

featuring validation tests, a number of various scopes and SDI out through Bluefish444, AJA, or Blackmagic SDI-cards:

Cheers (and excuse the video thumbnail),

Mazze

Plus, another thing to keep in mind when getting a projector:
You either need a silenced housing for the projector, or install it in a projection room next to the grading suite, if you don't want the noise inside the suite.

Tiffen works quite fast.

Also can recommend BorisFX (Continuum and RED).

Works pretty solid and fast.

However, 99% of the time, people use OFX to either

- denoise

- timewarp

- apply grain

Everything else I've seen only rarely being used.

Hi all,

a little update from today - if you're attending IBC, you can check out the Rageboard at the Marquise Technoliges booth, hall 7.H03 :-) .

http://www.angry-face.com/see-rageboard-marquise-technologies-booth-hall-7-h03/

In addition, from start of IBC on September 9th until end of September, we'll update the prices on our webstore,

and you'll get a Rageboard 300 Euros cheaper, and if you order a complete set of Tangent Element panels,

you'll get those 100 Euros cheaper (note, that the Elements deal is limited to orders from Europe).

Cheers!
Mazze

It depends in my opinion.

As Andrey mentioned, image perception changes with a projector.

On a big screen, things very often appear in a different way, than on a display (equally color-/contrast-wise as well as perception through bigger screen).

So it makes sense to grade cinema stuff on projectors.

However, I would carefully decide wether I do cinema grading often enough to justify getting a projector.

You will need a 3-chip DLP  - anything else does not make sense for grading - and 3-chip DLPs are still quite expensive, although prices with devices from NEC and Projection Design have come down a bit.

Plus power consuption and general maintenance of projectors are something to consider when getting one.

So, if you're just grading occasionally for cinema, then e.g. an Eizo ColorEdge, or any other P3-capable display might serve just enough.

It's pretty easy :-) .

Obviously, there's always Pros&Cons - SCRATCH's CMS is not necessarily the best - I just thought, the initial list was a bit short ;-) .

Color management in SCRATCH is pretty straight forward:

- you flag your interface monitor with a color space (e.g. sRGB) and your SDI-output seperately (e.g. P3 for a projector)

- now flag your footage accordingly (e.g. as Rec709, or ACES, etc.) - usually this is done automatically by SCRATCH anyways

===> SCRATCH will do the appropriate conversion to sRGB for your interface monitor, and to P3 for SDI.

You can also mix clips of different color spaces in one timeline and for each, the correct transform will be applied.

Additionally, you can add LUTs to both, interface and SDI displays (e.g. for calibration).

Lastly, you can flag your output with a color space (e.g. XYZ if you wanna render for DCI) -

again SCRATCH will do the corresponding transform for each clip (e.g. Rec709) to what the output node is flagged with (e.g. XYZ) upon rendering.

There's a tutorial on this in the SCRATCH tutorials section :-) .

For the ones interested in DCP-creation, here's a tutorial about how to

do color space conversion and JPEG2000 encoding inside SCRATCH:

Cheers,
Mazze

Hi all,

here's a quick tutorial focussing on color management in SCRATCH.

However, below I've posted the two in-depth tutorials about color management!

Enjoy,

Mazze

*EDIT* Added the first part of colormanagement again... now updated for v9.

SCRATCH color management.

On 8/27/2016 at 8:49 AM, Igor Riđanović said:

My main issue is that it has to be applied to each clip as an effect. You can't just advance to the next clip, or any clip in the sequence. You always have to drag and drop the effect. This is not a weakness of the plugin but merely the way Media Composer FX presets work.

That is true.

Workflow-wise ("renderless") this plugin works pretty well to transfer grades from BL to Avid.

But using it to actually grade inside Avid is not of too much joy.

Alternatively you can buy an x-keys and macro-program the buttons.

It's super easy, even if you haven't done it before and have no idea about macros.

Hi folks,

since Pomfort and I basically live next door to each other here in Munich,
we sat down together a couple weeks back and have developed a nice
workflow to transfer looks from LiveGrade to Silverstack and from there to SCRATCH:
http://pomfort.com/news/2016/08/livegrade-pro-silverstack-assimilate-scratch-one-seamless-workflow/

For everybody working on-set with either LiveGrade or Silverstack (or both),
this might be pretty interesting - enjoy:

Cheers,

Mazze

Hey Andy,

good to see you on here - I'll be in Amsterdam all the time, but am not sure how freed up my evenings are.

Btw - I'll mostly be at the Bluefish and Marquise booths in hall 7 all day, except for sunday.

If anybody wants to pop by - feel free :-) .

DNxHR Op Atom works fine in SCRATCH Play - support for DNxHR OP1A is on it's way, but might take some time^^.

Try SCRATCH Play:

http://www.assimilateinc.com/products/scratch-play/

It reads DNxHD/HR MXF and also Quicktime encoded with DNxHD/HR, plus has some rudimentary CDL/LUT grading options,

scopes, plenty of raw formats, support for VR, Oculus and a bunch of other stuff.

And it's free of charge - when starting it up, just switch the licensing tab to "free player" and enter your email, that's it.

Cheers,
Mazze

Hi all,

we're planning to post new tutorial videos about SCRATCH here, as they are being released -
starting with the "Getting started" tutorial for new users.
More videos will follow (new ones as well as existing ones) - stay tuned!

Another tutorial, that might be helpful especially for Resolve users.
Differences and similarities between the two are outlined, making it easier to adopt.

Cheers,
Mazze

Hi all,

there's a new tutorial out, that shows the usage of SCRATCH Web and how to publish from either the full SCRATCH software, or the free SCRATCH Play.
A trial channel on SCRATCH Web is 2 GB and free of charge, if you wanna try it :-) .

Cheers,
Mazze

Hi all,

for those, who do not have the time to invest 30 mins to watch our getting started tutorial,
here is a quick and dirty version that'll get you going within 5 minutes :-) .

Cheers,
Mazze