Using Adobe After Effects to Batch apply LUTs for Dailies
I recently worked on a major network pilot shooting on three Canon C300 cameras as part of the camera department; camera duties tied me up and allowed one of my good friends, and a fledgling DIT, to take care of the data wrangling. Our DIT processed dailies with a LUT on-set before they were uploaded…
Creating Dailies String-Outs in After Effects with Burned-In Timecode and File Name
Along with running Fallen Empire, I am a man of many hats. I recently camera/sound operated on a web clip for NBC that will stream around the time of the Olympics. As part of the hand off to other editors I decided to also provide them with a dailies string-out and story edit to save…
Convert Adobe Speedgrade .look Files to cineSpace .csp 3D LUT Files
Working in Nuke, Maya, or any other compositing or 3D program? 3D LUTs are great for matching color between footage and composited elements. On the flip side… how do you create a LUT quickly and easily? Adobe Speedgrade of course. Speedgrade saves presets in .look files that contain both program settings and a 3D LUT….
Encoding Apple ProRes on a Windows PC with Redcine X Pro and FFMPEG
Why deal with all this setup? Skip Python, QTChange, and Process Lasso and simplify the process. PRHelper for PC is available If you run a Windows system like I do, then I’m sure you cringe when you work with a client or Final Cut editor who requests ProRes. You grab your phone and scramble to…
