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AlexK
02-09-2005, 03:49 PM
Hey guys,

I just posted this question in the general compositing forum, because I overlooked the DFusion specific one. Sorry. :shrug:

I have to do some HD compositing soon and I wanted to do a bit of research for it. Can you point me in the right direction?

The job consists of two 15 sec shots. One is a combination of CG and real footage, the other is just real footage. The main work will be color correction, comping the footage together and maybe doing a matte painting of the one scene's sky.

The camera used is a Sony 900 (sorry don't know the exact model yet). The software used would be Digital Fusion.

Any tips on this software and HD material? A place to look for LUT's? Do I get them from Sony or can the camera maybe export an LUT?

Any help would be appreciated.
AlexK
02-11-2005, 04:12 AM
Come on anyone? There has to be at least one person out there that has worked with HDTV, right?
Jayk2k
02-14-2005, 08:47 PM
For what purpose would you need a LUT for HD? In any of my workings with it, i've brought it in, manipulated it as needed, and saved it out. No LUT's required.
AlexK
02-15-2005, 08:34 AM
Hi Jayk2,

thanks for your answer. Well my question was based on the fact that I was told to do a color correction on the 12/10 bit material. But that's no longer valid as the CC is done afterwards in Final Cut.
Jayk2k
02-15-2005, 05:30 PM
If that was still the case, it would rely more on your capture hardware than fusion. The hardware would need to able to aquire the footage in 10 or 12 bits, and then saved out to a file format that would retain that information, such as 16 bit sgi, tiff, or exr files. This is where the look up table would be applied, on the export from the capture device. Once brought in to fusion, you would work in 16 bit mode, and then save it back out. The hardware would then output the footage back to tape, and that is where a look up table might be applied going from 16 bit to 12 or 10.
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