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May 1st, 2004, 12:44 AM
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Awesome... Juan, looking at your raw footage always reminds me of the images sent back by the Mars probes from the 70s. Maybe once you figure out the noise problem you should have a "Mars Lander" button that puts it back in for crazy people like me. :)
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May 1st, 2004, 01:12 AM
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Regular Crew
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Great image! At least in terms of quality. The dutched cinema is reminding me of the batman series.
The RGB channels seem to be lining up much better. Is that because of the clock? And why is the image now 775x496? It seems to vary, especially in X. |
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May 1st, 2004, 01:39 AM
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The lining up is not because of the clock directly, but rather indirectly, because the edges are crisper so I can line them up better in photoshop.
Also, the varying size is just my shaky photoshop hand when selecting the image portion to crop. :) CLIP: Ok, so i just captured a ~3 second clip. Since you wanted separate R,G,B files, i'm trying to upload the raw R,G,B files out of the camera, but since these images contain dummy pixels(they look like film strips) each one is 114MB only for 3 seconds! That's 342MB for 3 RGB seconds with the dummy bits. Anyway, my cable modem is down to a crawl, so i'll leave it running and post here when(if?) it's done. The best solution though is to modify my program so it spits R,G,B frames out as an option, but i'll do it tomorrow....too late. :) In any case, we're looking at ~150MB for 3 seconds without the dummy bits. The one pitfall here is that we are forced to use 16-bit images when we are only using 10-bits(or 12). Maybe it is time to move over to Cineon. Juan |
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May 1st, 2004, 01:44 AM
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No way! Capture the images to raw 10bit and then have a program that can convert the raw images to TIFF, TGA, Cineon, JPEG, QuickTime, whatever people want. That way you use the absolute minimum disk space as you're capturing, and you give people flexibility in outputing...
Capturing straight to 10bit linear Cineons is a surefire way to make your wonderful progress go to waste... - ben |
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May 1st, 2004, 12:14 PM
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I thought Cineon could do RGB uncompressed linear 10-bit/12-bit at any res? Why would my progress go to waste?
Update: I've been trying to upload the files but no success...each one is to take about 2hrs over my home connection but it always gets interrupted, so i am going to try and upload them using my connection at work today... Juan |
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May 1st, 2004, 02:22 PM
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WOW!
ok, i'm no video specialist but i am supremely amazed.
This is a (approximately) 720P HD version of the last frame i posted, up-rezzed with PhotoZoom pro(S-spline) but other than that completely uncorrected(i.e. color still looks weird). I used the 'soft' photo setting which minimizes sharpening. I have a huge worklight lighting the scene, so the edge of the silver case is clipping the CCD's in the raw footage, but in the DV footage the entire silver case, white clothing and half of the oil box is clipped. S-Spline understandably has a lot of trouble with the speckles, because it thinks they are details and they endup looking worse, but check out the areas that are speckle-free...wow! Since the original image is a strange aspect ratio, it resized to 1240x794. Specially details like the mobil-1 logo and the edges of the TV look pretty darn near perfect. http://expert.cc.purdue.edu/~pertierr/cap6_HD.tif |
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May 1st, 2004, 04:49 PM
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Cineon technically can store uncompressed linear 10bit data. But I don't know of a single application that would be able to open such a file. If you go that route, be prepared to have people shrug and walk away...
- ben |
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May 1st, 2004, 04:53 PM
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Hmm interesting...all the apps i use, Apple Shake, FCP and Photoshop open cineon files. So, does Adobe AfterEffects/Premiere or Vegas not handle them?
I'm only asking because I did some tests and indeed it can store the exact same uncompressed information but with 10-bit or 12-bit packed data, reducing the file size by at least 25%, yet mantaining the exact same data as a 16-bit TIFF or RAW file. Cheers, Juan |
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May 1st, 2004, 04:55 PM
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After Effect yes, Vegas, no (unless added in v5), Premiere no, Premiere Pro maybe.
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May 1st, 2004, 05:06 PM
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Thanks Stephen...i guess all of this can be made an option. Cineon will keep the same quality but will allow to get more video on the drive.
Unless there is another widely used standard that allows 10/12bpc depths...i'd like to keep it an option for those who have software that can handle it. CLIPS: The raw 'film strips' are being uploaded, the RED channel is already uploaded. The other two should be done in under 2 hours. To open the raw files, open the file in photoshop CS as a RAW file, using the following settings: Width:1001 Height:59900 Depth:16-bit Byte Order:Mac Header Size:800 Click OK, it will tell you the selected image is smaller than the file, yadda yadda(always does this), click OK again. Remember that the blue images are flipped horizontally, and as of this post only the RED is up: http://expert.cc.purdue.edu/~pertierr/R_OUT16.raw http://expert.cc.purdue.edu/~pertierr/G_OUT16.raw http://expert.cc.purdue.edu/~pertierr/B_OUT16.raw Juan |
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May 1st, 2004, 05:06 PM
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Let me get this straight -- Shake, FCP and PS opened 10bit linear Cineons? I would be shocked to hear that they all supported an entirely unused format -- 99.999% of all Cineon files are 10bit log, since that's how they come out of the film scanner, and that's how they go to the film recorder...
The reality is that Cineon in general is just not supported in many applications, and I think it doesn't make sense for an application such as this... I still think the best route is to record raw 10/12 bit files, and provide a conversion app. That way you don't need to do any processing on the data as you write it to disk... - ben |
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May 1st, 2004, 05:09 PM
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That's a good suggestion, Ben...just record packed 36-bit data to maximize disk usage, and then provide an app that decodes it just like i've been doing.
My current final design does everything on the fly, but i hadn't considered that if everything is decoded into 16-bit RGB files for NLE instead of 12-bit files, there is a lot of valuable unused space on the drive....hmmm. |
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May 1st, 2004, 06:09 PM
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All R,G,B raw frame strips have been uploaded at the links above.
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May 2nd, 2004, 08:07 PM
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W00T W00T!
O happy day.
I have gotten rid of the speckles! Now taking suggestions for test scenes/clips. It was indeed noise in the lines as predicted a few messages ago, and it was solved with the use of some coupling capacitors. Juan |
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May 2nd, 2004, 08:36 PM
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Great work Juan! How about posting a few noise free stills? It would be nice to see some outside shots.
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