import CR2 image sequence

[Scott Dickson]

I'm a Nuke user as well as a professional colorist, and I would love to see Foundry Storm to have the ability to import an image sequence comprised of CR2 files, such as what the Canon DSLR's produce when shooting RAW. This is the only way I can afford to shoot "video" in a 14-bit format. It would seem like a real convenience to have a reliable Foundry product that can be my conduit for working with heavy-duty imagery, particularly if it's a good grading tool! :thumbsup:

[Keith_D]

An image sequence comprised of CR2 files…in Storm, this would be a great addition!

[andrewhake]

This would be fantastic for stop motion work. Something that could quickly playback CR2 image sequences.

[Dan A]

Hi guys, thanks for the feedback. We have now logged this as Ref: 16128 :smiley:


thanks,
Dan

[James Wilson]

This would be fantastic for stop motion work. Something that could quickly playback CR2 image sequences.

Are there other users or facilities who require support for CR2 image sequences? Would this just be for playback in Storm or are you expecting to manipulate/edit image sequences and export into various formats?

Thanks,

James.

[Tom Lowe]

This is a VERY good idea. I hope it will happen. Also, when is Storm coming to PC??

[Tom.Wong]

I wouldn't stop at CR2 either, DNG, and any other RAW format out there from every camera that does raw. motion and stills....

[David Jean Schweitzer]

Totally agree with Tom. Why stop at CR2!

[Scott Dickson]

Are there other users or facilities who require support for CR2 image sequences? Would this just be for playback in Storm or are you expecting to manipulate/edit image sequences and export into various formats?

Thanks,

James.

I would be interested in doing some initial coloring in Storm and then exporting to Nuke, possibly as a 16-bit tif sequence

[James Wilson]

Thanks for all of the feedback, were currently in discussion about exact features for v1.1 so your feedback is certainly appreciated.

I'll be able to shed more light on this subject soon!

[Peter Salvia]

I would be interested in doing some initial coloring in Storm and then exporting to Nuke

I'll second this loudly. Doing a lot of color grading work in Nuke and much prefer the Storm interface, more closely resembles the tools I'm used to applying in FCP and Apple Color. Then export the STORM grade as a script to inmport into NUKE.
I'm starting to do a fresh search of this forum, would love to see DPX sequence support in STORM. And is there currently any documentation covering export of STORM effects into NUKE?

Thanks in advance.

[Dan A]

Also, when is Storm coming to PC??

Hi Tom, no definite date yet I'm afraid but it's currently in the works. You can register your interest on this thread:

http://reduser.net/forum/showthread.php?t=52156

:smile5:


thanks,
Dan

[paulherrin]

I also do most of my colour grading in nuke right now... being able to go between storm and nuke would be awesome, or even just one way. and so would more formats, especially some dng, cr2, and other major formats for still sequences.

and/or, any chance nuke could inherit some things from storm?

[Dan Hudgins]

Adobe makes a convertor that can convert CR2 into DNG, you need to go into the second level menu and check or uncheck the box that makes LinearDNG so that it will make BayerDNG, otherwise it will interpolate the image which may degrade the end results. If I remember the converter is linked to on the ADOBE DNG SDK page its called "Adobe DNG converter.exe"? Another program called DNG_validate.exe in the SDK archive converts the DNG made to a TIF file you can look at, probably greenish since its RAW, but you can CC that.

Search: win_DNG_Camera_Raw_4_5.zip (or newer at Adobe)

http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/product.jsp?product=106&platform=Windows

Then you can convert the DNG to TIF or DPX 16bpc in various programs.

I have done this since we use a Canon DSLR in our converted Oxberry optical printer we use as a 35mm scanner.

The de-Bayer program I am working on has full manual control so may give better results for movie work, one thing to watch out for in RAW to RGB frame converters is that they have automatic white balance and clipping which can act like AGC if there is movement in the frame which changes the color or brightness. My program (underdevelopment) locks the settings for all frames processed so its like film printing, no AGC effect.

DCRAW can read CR2 files and make TIF frames, also, its a free program. I made a program to make a batch file so it would process the frames from that batch file, the program renames the CR2 files and so outputs a numbered set of frames using DCRAW as the convertor, I was using that before I wrote my own de-Bayer, that batch file maker is in the zip for DANCINES.ZIP I think, my film scanner program, at least it should be... I think its called MAKEBAT.EXE or something like that...