Hasta La Motion!

Hello guys! Long time lurker here, first time actually posting.

Our workflow is on-set capture to 10-bit cineform 1080p files. usually wrapped in an avi container, sometimes mov. These drop in any program in our workflow no problem, including Fusion.

However I am interested in moving the post over to Nuke, from Fusion.

We are trying out NukeX 6.2v2 as of now, and cannot get cineform files to work at all. When I drag in a cineform wrapped in avi, Nuke flat out says "invalid media type". When I drag in a cineform mov, it loads into the player, but is just complete static.

I’ve searched everywhere, and haven’t been able to find anything, expect that nuke apparently supports cineform raw files. How could it support cineform raw and not the much simpler flat out cineform codec?

I know you’ll probably say "just write everything you need to comp out to an image sequence". That would be great, except it would completely break our existing workflow and require us to double our storage, and have duplicates of everything. It has been incredibly nice to directly drop in our masters for compositing.

So I guess I’m asking, has anyone had luck with cineform in Nuke? Or does it just flat out not support standard directshow codecs? That would probably be a dealbreaker, sadly 🙁

Thanks for reading!

I have a short film Im working on, and I have a scene that we have to film where our male lead walks through a open apartment and we really need the apartment to have moving boxes lining the walls.

We went over to uhaul today to pick some up because we had a ton of people that are apart of the production going to stores to pick them up, however most every store wouldnt give us any, or they would only give us a handful anyhow.

These moving boxes are like 12 a piece here in NYC 🙁

Someone suggest we just shoot the scene and then add the boxes in post…..

Does anyone have any ideas on best idea in achieving this? I am a fairly competent editor fcp or avid, and know keyframe/roto/basic composition and used to know a lil after effects during college (10 or so years ago, since then Ive always farmed it out to you professionals) lol. Im sure tons have changed, so basically trying to get a feel for if its possible and how?

Green screen it? My dp knows a good deal on green screen. My personal machine has photoshop/afx/shake/fcp…so Id prefer to try to use a program I have.

So any ideas, if so….how so? and ideas?

Thank you so much in advance

i have always used particle illusion for making explosions and meteors and light beams and (the effects that appear in dragonball movies) those kinda of effects but now that i’m becoming better i began feeling they are unrealstic and not as good as those effects in movies so made some searches and found that the best in these effects is afterburn BUT i only have maya and afterburn is for 3d max so any alternative ?
i dnt wanna something so complex just more realstic and would be better if a stndalone software !!

plz respond………….thx in advance

Funny song for which I did a video for, added some effects etc. check it out see what you think:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7l0rpB21QTo

Hey guys,

I’m dealing with a very tricky greenscreen here. The problem is, that it is not "very green", meaning that the difference between the foreground and the greenscreen is not ideal for keying. Also, elements of the foreground are very blurry. I tried using Primatte, IBK and Keylight – but they all got the same problem more or less.

Do you have any tips how I can key this shot? Maybe start by hueCorrecting the green in this shot?

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