Fx exports/fixing done+ notes
So I finished going through and fixing the shots that had proBs or needed object buffers or mattes exported for fx work... all in all it was 212 shots which will take awhile to render... I'm guessing 2-4 weeks... theres a few shots in there that took 3-4 days on they OWN and it will take longer now that I can't render 24/7 since the power company here PG&E installed these "Smart Meters" and they charge you insane rates if you use a lot of power during "peak hours" which is between 12pm and 6pm so I have to turn all the render nodes off except one during those hours...
My next focus will be on compositing... I've been thinking about how I'm going to handle the color correction for awhile now... or let me rephrase that... how to make sure my blacks are really black... I'm concerned about the gamma and not the colors... last time I borrowed a friends MacPro and NTSC monitor....and Blackmagic Design was nice enough to give me a card to hook it up too... but now that I have no friends ^ ^ and I don't want to invest in a bunch of gear just to check black levels since I learned that's only really important if your going out to tape or too DVD... I also learned how to use pluGE bars... so I just calibrated all my LCD's with Pluge bars using standard srgb profiles... So the images all look the same and the way I want them on all my PC's and Mac using S-rgb profiles... My thought process is this... as long as my levels are consistent for the whole of the film... If I ever do need to go to HDCAM or somethin... then the tech at the post house only need to apply one gamma correction to the whole film to get the levels where they need to be for desired output format... also when I did the DVD's I made a bunch of test encodes and tested them on TV's and adjusted the gamma accordingly... so my goal is to make sure the film as a whole has consistent gamma...
So the film exists as Exr sequences right now... at the comp phase those will become quicktime mov's using the Sheer Video 10bit rgb codec... I will build the master mov's using the Sheer mov's... then I can export any format I wish from that master...
Up until now I've been looking at the film in its "raw" state... no dof blurring...no motion blur... no color correction.. no grain.. no visual fx... and it still looks amazing in some places to my new scrutinizing eyes ^ ^ I can't WAIT to see it all FULLY PROCESSED... I have a knack for taking plain looking footage and adding lots of flavor in After Effects and I don't think I've ever had raw footage with this much flavor... so yeh I'm excited...
I'm glad the fixing work is over...it was really boring and a drain 0_o Two shots from the end of the film are still rendering now... when those are done I'll move and backup all those shots... then generate QT proxies for the offline edit... THEN animate the Prologue and the two other loGUE type things in the film ^ ^ they are pretty simple shots and there's only 38 shots total so I plan to finish those before I take my 2 week break at the start of October...
I haven't checked too see how much raw footage there is for the film now but my guess would be around 4 hours... which I will cut down too two... SO if I wouldn't have done so many extra shots I probably could have finished animation in 6 months instead of around 11... next film..next film...
Oh yeh I got an idea for a stereoscopic 3d film that uses the 3d as part of the storytelling technique..it would be a REAL mindfuck ^ ^...I've never seen anyone do what I came up with before so I'm going to create an outline for that as well as the like future cyber espionage idea I came up with in the past month...again something else I've never seen before so I must develop it further.... I can do Stereo 3d really easily with Cinema 4d so I'm throwing the idea around as a short for the time being...Brought to you by professional weirdo M dot Strange.