May 9th, 2008
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As far as I can tell, there is no “formal” (nor informal, for that matter) specification for a Final Cut Pro Batch List anywhere, despite being in regular use (this is unfortunately the case for several file types in regular use in post-production). FCP’s manual provides a few hints, but nothing completely definitive.
So here goes:

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April 19th, 2008
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This is how digital colour correction works:

If you change the brightness for any part of the image, all the selected pixels are affected in the same way.
In one of my previous rants, I proposed that resolution was more important than bit-depth… Since then, I’ve been wondering why, in practice, this is never the case. After […]

April 11th, 2008
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Where part 1 of this series… was mostly theory, anticipation and about establishing best practices for RedCode data, this part is all reality: what happens in practice  when you try and work with it.
After all, the vast majority of discussions of Red camera workflow are necessarily theoretical, after all very few people are using it […]

March 14th, 2008
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I haven’t seen much in the way of comparisons of the resizing filters available for Red footage, so yesterday I ran some quick tests. The “Redline” processor provides a choice of seven different filters for resizing clips: Bell, Mitchell, Lanczos3, Quadratic, Cubic-bspline, CatmulRom (sic), and Gauss. I took something fairly neutral we’d shot at […]

February 26th, 2008
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Well, the red camera shoot, “Padded Cell” (Entitled Productions, Dir. Andrew Martin, DOP Simon Dennis), is in the can– it was a very interesting experience.
There were a few oddities about the camera itself- there is no back focus plane indicator anywhere on the camera body, so our focus puller had to manually measure where it was […]