Saturday, October 3, 2009

Color Management and Digital Cinema Production

Well, the learning never ends,  according to my time line I should be... working on my 3D landscape today.  Well, I was a good wife and help my husband on a shoot, then went to a family function and when I came home said ok, let me spend two hours and work.  But something was bothering me.  I did the exporting fo my image sequence to a tiff sequence, but I got a strange message that the sequence I was exporting wasn't 16 bit and wouldn't gain anything from a 16bit export.   So I decided to research a little harder into color management and my workflow and I see that I have to research this a little bit more to get a truly dynamic color range with my footage.  

I just started googling my codec, and tiff sequence, then 8 bit to 16 bit then a nightmare of information on color management came up.  As important as light is to an image, Color is to story.  Arg!!!

Great source of info: Prolost Stu maschwitz
http://prolost.com/

White Paper on After Effect Color Management:
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/aftereffects/articles/color_management_workflow.html

Ok, I know what I'll do.  I'll use proxy tiff that are 8 bit for tracking and rotoscope as I have to stay on time, then replace with the 16, 24 or 32 bit image.

I have to research fast

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