Re: [Nuke-users] Filmic Dissolve

2016-11-10 Thread Adrian Baltowski
Hej   Just gamma-correct things you want to dissolve: pump up gamma (with "Gamma" node for instance) before Dissolve - on both inputs- and invert gamma -correction after dissolve. Values arround '2' and '1/2' will give you Final Cut Pro -like dissolve but feel free to experiments with this

Re: [Nuke-users] slightly OT: maximum white of RED footage?

2014-04-30 Thread Adrian Baltowski
Adrian Baltowski: Just remember that with all digital cameras these are arbitrary logarithmic-like curves applied on top of the linear data captured by the sensor. Currently I'm working on the Alexa footage: night shot with house on fire. With AlexaV3logC curve maximum linearized values of fire

Re: [Nuke-users] slightly OT: maximum white of RED footage?

2014-04-30 Thread Adrian Baltowski
is not acceptable for VFX; surely anything is 'acceptable' - even underexposed 8mm... :) Personally, I'd rather have the stops to play with. N Neil Rögnvaldr Scholes www.neilscholes.com On 30/04/14 14:43, Adrian Baltowski wrote: Probably you have access to more recent Alexa but with my footages

Re: [Nuke-users] slightly OT: maximum white of RED footage?

2014-04-29 Thread Adrian Baltowski
Just remember that with all digital cameras these are arbitrary logarithmic-like curves applied on top of the linear data captured by the sensor. Currently I'm working on the Alexa footage: night shot with house on fire. With AlexaV3logC curve maximum linearized values of fire are around 36

Re: [Nuke-users] Nuke Premiere CS6 Colorspace Workflow

2014-04-24 Thread Adrian Baltowski
I did a quick test: 1) import h264 footage from canon 5D to Premiere CS6 2) export dpx seq with default preset: full range 3) import dpx to nuke with colorspace set to sRGB 4) export tiff seq from nuke with default sRGB colorspace 5) import to Premiere and compare to original: color and gamma are

Re: [Nuke-users] where is the untitled autosave file??

2014-03-03 Thread Adrian Baltowski
On OSX you have to check in /var/tmp/nuke-u501 folder (or something like nuke-u5xx) - .autosave file is there. Spotlight does not search for hidden files by default. Also in Finder You must enable 'show hidden files' option in plist to get it. Best Adrian W dniu 2014-03-03 02:38:28

Re: [Nuke-users] Exporting camera parented to an Axis

2013-10-02 Thread Adrian Baltowski
Hi   This is a simple python script, which create independent copy of selected camera. All dependencies, parenting, targets etc. are resolved and recalculated to standalone Nuke Camera, with baked  XYZ. Such a camera You can export with chan file or fbx or whatever.     Best Adrian Baltowski

RE: [Nuke-users] Re: Color Space Conversion to DCP-compliant XYZ using Nuke

2012-06-06 Thread Adrian Baltowski
Hi The math equation used in colorspace node in Nuke assumes, that input signal is in linear REC709 colorspace but this is not necessarily true. So my advice: try to use 2 separate colorspace nodes. In the first one set sRGB as in and REC709 as output and THEN connect the next colorspace node

Re: [Nuke-users] How to check zip compression type for EXR images...?

2012-05-22 Thread Adrian Baltowski
Mobile: (248) 840-2665 Web: http://richbobo.com/ Man has been endowed with reason, with the power to create, so that he can add to what he's been given. - Anton Chekhov On May 21, 2012, at 6:40 PM, Adrian Baltowski wrote: Hi With just few lines of code and totally

Re: [Nuke-users] Quicktime pixel aspect ratio

2012-05-02 Thread Adrian Baltowski
Hi   The question is: has your quicktime file the 'pasp' atom but it contains wrong values OR your file doesn't has any aspect ratio atoms ('pasp' or 'tapt') at all? There is small OSX application called Dumpster to inspect and edit quicktime file's structure. But Dumpster can't add or remove

Re: [Nuke-users] Quicktime pixel aspect ratio

2012-05-02 Thread Adrian Baltowski
. Cheers, Ron Ganbar email: ron...@gmail.com tel: +44 (0)7968 007 309 [UK]      +972 (0)54 255 9765 [Israel] url: http://ronganbar.wordpress.com/ On 2 May 2012 20:36, Adrian Baltowski adrian...@poczta.onet.pl wrote: Hi Dumpster is free app. It is available somewhere on apple developer site. I attached

RE: [Nuke-users] QT file frame offset?

2012-03-29 Thread Adrian Baltowski
Hi Your file is strange. When you open it in Dumpster you find, that timescale and duration values are inconsistent between movie header atom and track atom and these values doesn't divide evenly. So it's very likely that file is misinterpreted in different softwares. This file was created by

Re: [Nuke-users] 32 bit to 8 bit conversion?

2012-03-07 Thread Adrian Baltowski
Hi   I want help or advise you something but I don't fully understand your workflow... You can of course make color conversion in nuke. Nuke is brilliant software to make such a conversions BUT What next?? You cannot export layered tiffs out of Nuke (at least not in usable form). Do you

RE: Re: [Nuke-users] Re: Luminance / Chroma B44 Compressed EXRs in Nuke

2012-03-02 Thread Adrian Baltowski
Hi   There are sample Luma/Chroma images on the exr repository on the exr project website; shows exactly what happens. http://www.openexr.com/downloads.html   Generaly speaking: Nuke doesn't support Luma/Chroma encoded exr files. But problem is more complicated... Exr libraries provide 2 ways to

RE: [Nuke-users] Re: photoshop differences

2012-03-02 Thread Adrian Baltowski
Hi Just one thing to clarify: Nuke psd reader doesn't merge layers from psd file in any way! While you save layered psd file in Photoshop you have option Maximize compatibility. When you turn it on, Photoshop merges all active layers and saves as uncompressed picture into the psd file. And

RE: Re: [Nuke-users] FrameCycler Pro Question...

2012-02-19 Thread Adrian Baltowski
Hi   Framecycler is 64 bit on Linux and Windows. There is only OSX version of Nuke shipped with 32 bit Framecycler because 64 bit version of Framecycler for OS X simply does not exist. So no reasons to fill bug report or feature request... ;)   Best         W dniu 2012-02-19 08:38:12 użytkownik

RE: [Nuke-users] Re: Re: Re: SSD and red footage

2011-11-13 Thread Adrian Baltowski
A little OT but remember, that in case of native r3d files in Nuke there is a massive difference between operating systems. On the same hardware (without rocket card) r3d decoding in Nuke is few times faster on Linux than on OSX. Also Widows is slower than Linux with this format. There isn't

RE: Re: [Nuke-users] Layered photoshop files and nuke

2011-10-26 Thread Adrian Baltowski
I wrote psdReader which reads 16 and 32 bits psd files with layers and masks. It's available on Nukepedia. I will update it for 6.3 soon (unfortunately I didn't have time to do it so far...). In general: there is not a bug or weirdness actually. Information about layers and masks in 16bit and

RE: [Nuke-users] Crashes with Alexa footage - retiming - view Meta Data

2011-09-26 Thread Adrian Baltowski
You encountered old bug in Nuke. When you fetch metadata from movie format readers (mov, avi, ffmpeg, r3d) Nuke from time to time (quite often) gives black frame, colorfull noise or shows error messages. In older versions of Nuke and movReader when this error occurs Nuke shows unhandled pixel

RE: Re: [Nuke-users] LogC again

2011-08-20 Thread Adrian Baltowski
Always when you mean about movs from Alexa remember that in Nuke 6.2 and 6.3 there is no actual 'raw' functionality in movReader. In older versions of Nuke (up to 6.1 32bit) when you activate raw button, movReader get values from Quictime's PixelBuffer and copy them directly, without any

RE: Re: Re: [Nuke-users] Nuke + linux

2011-07-26 Thread Adrian Baltowski
that a try on our Fedora Core 14 system. Thanks, Vincent On Sat, Jul 23, 2011 at 4:54 AM, Adrian Baltowski adrian...@poczta.onet.pl wrote: I suppose that some strange issues on Linux might caused by silent incompatibility of libstdc++ library used by Nuke instalation. I had similar

RE: Re: [Nuke-users] phantom footage

2011-07-15 Thread Adrian Baltowski
To eliminate flicker you can use old Shake technique with curve tool. In Nuke there is curveTool node but manual to Nuke is useless in this case. But you can refer to Shake manual because PixelAnalyzer in Shake and curveTool in Nuke are similar. In few words: with curve tool you can

RE: Re: [Nuke-users] Default Pixel aspect ratio for Read Nodes

2011-06-23 Thread Adrian Baltowski
Hey   Formats.tcl file has nothing to do with Reader's aspect ratio. This is only list of names of formats in Nuke, created for users convenience. Reader set up format based on info about resolution and aspect ratio of file. Then Nuke compares the format with the formats.tcl and if format has a

RE: RE: Re: [Nuke-users] Default Pixel aspect ratio for Read Nodes

2011-06-23 Thread Adrian Baltowski
Btw Trick with order of formats in formats.tcl works but only if Reader don't set up any aspect ratio.   W dniu 2011-06-23 22:55:03 użytkownik Adrian Baltowski adrian...@poczta.onet.pl napisał: Hey   Formats.tcl file has nothing to do with Reader's aspect ratio. This is only list of names

RE: [Nuke-users] Re: Quicktime Uncompressed 10-bit YUV

2011-05-30 Thread Adrian Baltowski
Hey   First of all: it's possible to keep a controlled workflow with Quicktime format, and there aren't any specific issues about 10 bit uncompress codec. But there are mane other things:   1. Which application has generated those files? (Final cut, Avid or something else), in which format

RE: [Nuke-users] Saving color picker window default

2011-05-26 Thread Adrian Baltowski
Hi   In .nuke folder you have file called uistate.ini. This file is automatically modified by Nuke, but if for some reasons is not and all the time you run new project you have TMI off, you can modify it manually. Open this file in text editor and in [ColorPicker] section set:

RE: Re: [Nuke-users] MOV Support?

2011-05-10 Thread Adrian Baltowski
Most of all: ffmpeg is not available with 64bit OSX version of Nuke. Also ffmpeg currently has not support for many popular codecs like Prores; ffmpeg is very useful on Linux as it's better than none, but it's not good solution on OSX. Nuke on OSX (32bit version) has native support for mov

RE: Re: [Nuke-users] The DREADED Quicktime 'colr' atom

2011-04-20 Thread Adrian Baltowski
On Apr 18, 2011, at 7:11 AM, Jerry Huxtable jerry at thefoundry.co.uk wrote: We use QuickTime to read and write QuickTime movies, and always have, so there's nothing to switch back to. The issue is that due to history of vague documentation and dodgy codec and host software implementations,