Scratch and Canon 7D, etc.?

[Chris Parker]

Just curious if Scratch(cine) could be used to injest files from Canon 7D, Sony EX1, etc. and export them as DPX sequences? If not, does anyone have a good technique for doing this?

[David Battistella]

Just curious if Scratch(cine) could be used to injest files from Canon 7D, Sony EX1, etc. and export them as DPX sequences? If not, does anyone have a good technique for doing this?

For this job I would suggest After effects or Shake, otherwise you might need to get Gluetools, and just use FCP to export it.

David

[Chris Parker]

FCP will export DPX with Glue Tools? I thought it would only play QT wrapped DPX's in FCP.....

cool.

[John Tissavary]

Just curious if Scratch(cine) could be used to injest files from Canon 7D, Sony EX1, etc. and export them as DPX sequences? If not, does anyone have a good technique for doing this?

ScratchCine can only take in Red files. For other formats (quicktime, etc...) you will have to have Scratch.

Oh... and I bet I can make the 7D, EX1 and other footage look better faster in Scratch (or any other color corrector) than in AE or Shake. I used Shake to grade a documentary a bunch of years ago, and that was one of the worst decisions ever, and I am (was!) a HUUUUUGE shake fan, having used it since before it even had a graphical interface.

Use grading tools for grading, and compositing tools for compositing. Grading 1,600 cuts and 144,000 frames in after effects - I'd rather have my head sawed off!

[David Battistella]

Yep Chris here,

http://www.gluetools.com/products_dpx.html


John. I think Chris was asking how to export a DPX sequence. I wasn't suggesting he use SHAKE or AE to CC. But these programs could injest a QT and export a DPX sequence.

I think that was the question?

Chris?

David

[John Tissavary]

Yep Chris here,

http://www.gluetools.com/products_dpx.html


John. I think Chris was asking how to export a DPX sequence. I wasn't suggesting he use SHAKE or AE to CC. But these programs could injest a QT and export a DPX sequence.

I think that was the question?

Chris?

David

Understood - I misunderstood the original question. Also, conforming is probably Scratch's most used feature in post facilities here in LA - to output conformed DPX sequences for use in vfx, Baselight, Resolve, etc...

An important thing to note: a serious drawback with AE, Premiere, and even Apple Color is that they do not use the new color science when debayering RAW, and that's a dealkiller, imho.

[David Battistella]

Understood - I misunderstood the original question. Also, conforming is probably Scratch's most used feature in post facilities here in LA - to output conformed DPX sequences for use in vfx, Baselight, Resolve, etc...

An important thing to note: a serious drawback with AE, Premiere, and even Apple Color is that they do not use the new color science when debayering RAW, and that's a dealkiller, imho.

yeah, but the footage would be coming from a 7D. So what would that have to do with debayering R3D files?

David

[John Tissavary]

yeah, but the footage would be coming from a 7D. So what would that have to do with debayering R3D files?

David

I'm not paying very good attention in this thread, am I... been a busy week!

cheers,

JT

[Chris Parker]

yeah, looking to export DPX sequence from 7D footage (or Sony EX1 footage, etc.).

thanks david et. all.....

[Lucas Wilson]

Just curious if Scratch(cine) could be used to injest files from Canon 7D, Sony EX1, etc. and export them as DPX sequences? If not, does anyone have a good technique for doing this?

Hey Chris...

Contact me off-list, and send me a file from the 7D. ; )

Lucas

lucas (at) assimilateinc (dot) com

[omri peled]

I have a project shot on 5d that I'd like to grade in Scratch
what is the best workflow to your understanding?

My original thought waz (in case of scratch not taking the QT's right)

opening the project on a Nitris ->
exporting individual shots as Tiff seq (naming it 001,002 and so on)
reconform on the Scratch by placing 003 after 002 after 001 and like wise
grade

is that a good workflow?

[dave_garcia]

5d & 7d definitely work fine in scratch. I'm working on a project now with mixEd sources- RED, 5D, 7d & 16mm. The canon footage plays way better then it does in FCP. As an added bonus I got a nice conform on the 5d 30p stuff when dropping into a 24p timeline that gave it a really cool overcranked thing.

I'm currently processing all footage to uncompressed then cutting with conformed stuff in FCP.

I'll do an online when Im done.

[dave_garcia]

BTW you should be fine doing a regular online with the source footage.

[Virgil Kastrup]

I've done a conform/grade with scratch on a show that was Canon 5DmkII, Sony XDCAM EX1 & RED. Only Thing I needed was XD decode from calibrated Q. Otherwise I had no problems.

[omri peled]

thank you everybody
will report Monday as soon as i try it out
:)