HDR Light Studio 1.5 Released

HDR Light Studio is designed specifically for creating HDRI light and reflection maps for CG rendering

dpx log + cgi for film

Hi i hope you guys can give me a hand with some issues im having with a project im running. Its the first time i work for film and i have my head spining in all directions with color spaces and formats…
Basicly the problem is that we are getting all sort of mistakes when giving in our material to the CC guy (they are doing it in Lustre) Our cgi seems to be not holding well against the dpx files and we havent been able to spot where the probelm is (production is doing the cc in other studio in other city so no chance of having the guy there to run tests)We are rendering all our 3d in Open exr linear, and matte paintings are being done in tiff 16 bits. from the tests we have run here the exr files can take the most extreme color corrections, and behave just fine when totally integrated with the dpx files.. but no matter how we give him the file he keeps saying that the blacks get gray and what not. There is something in the process we are not doing right, he has sent us some screen grabs of how he sees our material and it looks like if he had his lut in linear and a kodak vision filter…and obvioulsy he gets a really dark file… if i reproduce this in nuke… if i get the file in,turn of the viewer lut and put a truelight node with kodak vision or kodak vision premier i get a pretty close result to what he sends.. but then i can deal just fine with the color and i dont get any issues to get where we want to get… Now the question is..well in your experience what would be the correct workflow when dealing with film production… and if we have to integrate and treat our cgi with the truelight node to check how is he going to see it and then render without it… im totally lost at this point and it looks like we are doing everything by the book, but then every time i scratch a bit more there is something else to know.

help…

Thanks in advanced

Burst of Beaden

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How to convert MKV to AVI WMV MPEG MP4 VOB DVD etc and add subtitle to MKV?

In this guide we will explain how to convert MKV to AVI WMV MPEG MP4 VOB DVD with iSkysoft MKV Converter. It includes 2 parts.
Part1: some knowledge about MKV video format
Part2: how to convert MKV to AVI WMV MPEG MP4 VOB DVD and add subtitle to MKV

Part1 some knowledge about MKV video

What’s MKV video format?
An MKV file is a Matroska file, the Matroska Multimedia Container is an open standard free Container format . It is similar in conception to other containers like AVI, MP4 or ASF, but is entirely open in specification, with implementations consisting mostly of open source software. Matroska file types are .MKV for video (with subtitles and audio), .MKA for audio-only files and .MKS for subtitles only.

How to play MKV files on Windows?
In principal you can play MKV files on almost every Mediaplayer on Windows if you have the latest CCCP playback pack from Matroska Download Page installed, as most of these players are based on Microsoft DirectShow (TM).

Part2 how to convert MKV to AVI WMV MPEG MP4 VOB DVD and add subtitle to MKV?
Things you will need
MKV video
MKV Converter
Seperated subtitle in srt format

Get Start:
1. Download iSkysoft MKV Converter, install and run it

2. Put your MKV subtitle in the same folder with MKV video and name as the MKV.
ie. D:\Movie\chd-ntbos-bdrip.MKV D:\Movie\chd-ntbos-bdrip.srt

3. Then select "Add" button to load the MKV video files, this MKV Converter will detect your subtitle and add it automatically.

4. Click the "Convert to" drop-down button to choose the output formats;
Click the "Target Path" button to find the destination folder for output file;

Besides, you can set the subtitle language in the Edit Menu if you have several subtitle file in different languages.

5. Click the "Start" button to begin the conversion.

This is the easiest way to convert MKV to AVI WMV MPEG MP4 VOB DVD with iSkysoft MKV Converter and add subtitle to MKV. Now just enjoy your MKV videos on any media player like iPod iPhone PSP Zune Blackberry even burn MKV to DVD to play on Home DVD Players with this video converter!

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Zoic’s 2009 film reel

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select pixels based on a set threshold?

Hi,

I am wondering if there is a way to quickly select (or isoloat/extract) pixels that has value greater than 1 or a set threshold in an image in Nuke?

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Twenty120 Roundup “In The Age of Opulence”

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Indeed, Twenty120 has come to pass. Not long ago, screenings for the festival went underway, drawing in artists across the board, and cooking up a body of work ranging from abstract animation to live action.

For those oblivious to the event, Twenty120 is a stockpile of 20 independent films that each span a length of 120 seconds. Rid of any professional constraints, artists were given full creative license, but posed to frame their work around this year’s theme, “In The Age of Opulence.”

While we at Motionographer where pleased at the overall quality from all the works, we where especially impressed by Wrights of Spring (Bryce Wymer, Daniel Pernikoff), OPRÉ (Justin Harder), and Fatty Wants A New Toy (Jon Saunders, Tony Barbieri).

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