Hi all, Sorry for slow reply, the past days I'm way behind mails - people here want attention too! Andrew Hunter's observations are all correct and in the line of our actions already :)
This is the plan sofar; - Camalot is testing the new Sony F65 now, we might get that - or at least we get the red epics. That decision is being made in a few weeks from now. - I realize Red is not very 'open', nor interested in supporting that. I have contacted them about our work, but the contact remains very shallow. - In case we will use the Red Epic, we will for sure arrange a test with Camalot first (a month before we film). - We can use a closed workflow to get the files from the Red cartridges converted to something readable for us (openexr preferably) - using the Red software. That's for me then the start of the "open vfx pipeline" :) - There's also a chance we support someone to help developing redcode file conversion. Getting this opened up is something more people (studios too!) would like to see. Feasibility unsure. - If you have Red (Epic) footage for us to test that would rock! But it should be in a compatible free license (Creative Commons Attribution). We already had Red One footage from another source, which is being copied to xiph.org for everyone currently; Thanks, -Ton- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Ton Roosendaal Blender Foundation t...@blender.org www.blender.org Blender Institute Entrepotdok 57A 1018AD Amsterdam The Netherlands On 20 Feb, 2012, at 19:35, Andrew Hunter wrote: > For what it is worth, I can supply sample r3ds for development. > > A 10 second clip from a film I shot is available from: > http://files.aehunter.net/BHS_RED_CLIP.zip > > It was shot about two years ago on the RED One, firmware build 17 iirc. > > I am working with the Epic on a shoot later this week. I could supply some > sample footage under a cc license if desired. > > Sincerely, > > Andrew > On Feb 20, 2012 1:01 PM, "Andrew Hunter" <and...@aehunter.net> wrote: > >> Speaking here for a moment on a topic that is my profession, not just my >> hobby (the way computers and programming are). >> >> Not just just with every new camera. Red optimizes their firmware >> constantly to squeak better performance out of their cameras. Jim janard >> likes to boast about opening footage shot years ago and it looking as good >> as footage shot today. >> >> The majority of Red's 'secret sauce' lies in the sdk and the apps that use >> it. >> >> At best, mango could sponsor a reverse engineering of a particular file >> format + firmware revision and it would still give sub-optimal results. >> >> More likely, you will end up processing the r3ds in redcine-x pro with the >> redlogfilm gamma setting to preserve dynamic range and saving to exr or >> tiff and using those as your master files. >> >> Fundamentally, Red is a company that is ideologically at odds with the >> principles of the open movie. >> >> Sincerely, >> >> Andrew Hunter >> On Feb 20, 2012 12:45 PM, "Brecht Van Lommel" <brechtvanlom...@pandora.be> >> wrote: >> >>> Yes, it seems that with every new camera, RAW/R3D file formats also >>> gets changed/extended. I also couldn't open these files with libraw. >>> This probably means someone would have to reverse engineer the latest >>> version of the R3D file format. >>> >>> Brecht. >>> >>> On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 3:07 PM, Sergey Sharybin <sergey....@gmail.com> >>> wrote: >>>> FFmpeg doesn't work with files Brecht gave links to. At all. >>>> >>>> On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 7:49 PM, Sergey Kurdakov < >>> sergey.fo...@gmail.com>wrote: >>>> >>>>> Hi >>>>> >>>>> also http://www.libraw.org supports r3d files. >>>>> >>>>> Regards >>>>> Sergey >>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>> Bf-committers mailing list >>>>> Bf-committers@blender.org >>>>> http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers >>>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> With best regards, Sergey Sharybin >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Bf-committers mailing list >>>> Bf-committers@blender.org >>>> http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Bf-committers mailing list >>> Bf-committers@blender.org >>> http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers >>> >> > _______________________________________________ > Bf-committers mailing list > Bf-committers@blender.org > http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers _______________________________________________ Bf-committers mailing list Bf-committers@blender.org http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers