https://opentoonz.github.io/e/

Since the software "Toonz", which is the original version of OpenToonz, was first used for some cuts of Princess Mononoke, it has been used in the ink and paint, color design and digital composition process of almost all of works of Studio Ghibli. After "Arrietty/The Secret World of Arrietty", it was customized inside the company, and evolved to become more usable according to its production style.

It's available for Windows, Mac, and Linux so you're afforded a bit of platform freedom with it. There's a trial version available on the home site here.

The Corel site starts off the introductory blurb with "Corel® AfterShot™ Pro is a fast..." and as these kinds of blurbs typically go they're drastically understating the case. Running AfterShot Pro on my ancient 2006 MacPro1,1 (w/32GB RAM, and 8-cores of x5355 Xeon at 2.67GHz & GTX570) acts much faster than LR on my liquid-cooled 16-core 4+ GHz Boxx 8980 XTREME with dual Tesla cards and 32GB RAM!

All the usual raw processing tools plus some unexpected goodies are presented in a pretty slick highly customizable, gooey (GUI):

It's of course all non-destructive. The last 4 or 5 revision releases have offered OpenCL support as you can see from the image above. Totally sweet! It has layer masks for selective editing and processing. Layer brushing can be as accurate as 2 pixels and selection areas are sub-pixel accurate. It has options for independent layers which allow opacity and unique selection spline sets and/or brush strokes per layer. The selection splines can be edited at any time during editing or after saving the files out. I guess the spline data is saved in either of it's two kinds of XMP sidecar files. It sports a plug-in architecture but I haven't looked yet to see what APIs it's using nor if the plugs are compatible with those from/for other apps. Mine came with a souped up version of NoiseNinja and B&W processor with selective color capabilities.

It supports catalogs which I personally dislike, and also OS hierarchal folder structures of your own devise - which is what I prefer. It uses just two user definable folders for all of its cache, work, proofs, previews, and profiles so it won't make a mess of things either. The review-and-select tools are similar to all other good PP apps I've tried so finding, sorting, and tagging stuff is done in the usual ways. Basically if you already know LR, CP1, or Aperture, there's no learning curve to deal with - just a HUGE speed increase and who doesn't want that? :D It has some nice output features but nothing others don't have IIRC. PDF files, Proof (Contact) Sheets, and so on. It also has a slide-show feature but it's fairly simplistic with just interval, border offsets, and so on as available options. No fancy wipes or anything but this is a RAW processor so I'm not sure how fitting something like wipes or etceteras, would be. It's got Versioning, Stacking, Keywording, Tagging, and Star Rating to help with progressive edit revisions and so forth. And the various tool pallets can be docked and floated for us multi-monitor users. ;)

My little old MP1,1 with GTX570 can select, apply many many adjustments, and display GH2 RAW files in 0.27s or 3 FPS depending how you look at it. Processing, converting, and saving one raw-to-jpeg image at a time occurs in about 0.8 seconds with every slider and adjustment set to something other than the as-shot defaults. Batch processing 100 such 16mpx GH2 raw files took considerably less time with an average 0.63 seconds for each. That's fast in the extreme - given the machine spec!

So give this a try. DL the trial version, walk through all the preferences to optimize it for your particular system, then try out all the features, and come back here and tell us what you thought - good or bad. I have a feeling some here will be typing CASP or ASP in their posts more often than LR from now on. Me, I'm uninstalling LR all together - that's for sure! ;) They've put together quite a system with hordes of free plug-ins and a fairly energetic community.

Right now Amazon has it for sale for $14.99 as a download. But you can only take advantage of the deal if you're either in the USA or are using something like a Tor network which makes you location independent. :D

Print the target in greyscale with high dpi printer in A4 or similar paper sheet, and fix it in the wall. I used day light from a window, but I think other lights can be used also.

Point camera to target, Set the iso and do the white balance in the target, record out of focus video in exposures -1, -1 1/3, -1 2/3, -2, the highest amount of noise will be in one of these exposures. For GH2 -1 1/3 was the highest noise, for NEX-5N -1 2/3 was the highest amount of noise.

import the video to timeline and set the neatvideo square in each shade of grey in each exposure to find which one has the highest amount of noise for each ISO (for each area neatvideo will show the amount of noise), then click in auto-profile and auto fine-tune, then save the profile.

to create the presets (noise filter settings), you can see the NEX-5N and GH2 presets that I uploaded to understand what to do for your camera in each ISO.

Enjoy!

The idea behind the plugin is simply that sometimes, it can be advantageous to use the full sensor in 4:3 and then stretch in a 'clever' way afterwards. The included images show an original image in 4:3, stretched 16:9 and stretched 16:9 with a distortion grid overlay and the protected region shown in green. The plugin is quite customizable (stretching, size and position of protected region plus some bells and whistles) but the default settings should work in most cases.

It currently only works under Windows but in both AE and Premiere (6.0 or later), we expect to compile it for Mac eventually.

If you feel like this is a good idea and you would like to help us with testing, send me a short PM. We would like feedback on: bugs, usability, suggested features and settings.

As this is a hobby project no money will be involved :-)

General comments are also welcome

https://www.playmemoriescameraapps.com/portal/?cid=C039_EMM

http://www.vicanek.de/plugins/wireworm.htm

http://sagelighteditor.wordpress.com/2011/02/23/wire-worm-a-free-plug-in-you-cant-do-without-new-version-available-too/

Photoshop Fix offers a retouching and restoration-focused image editing experience on a mobile device, powered by Adobe’s world-renowned image-science technology. The simple, intuitive touch interface makes legendary Photoshop desktop features, like the Healing Brush and Liquify, available for real retouching work on iPad and iPhone.

• Resolutions: 4K/UHD (2160p), Full HD (1080p), HD (720p)
• Frame Rates: 24fps, 25fps, 30fps
• Bitrate: from 15 Mbps up to 200 Mbps
• Can save video files to external SD Card
• Auto White Balance with Lock and Adjust feature
• Manual Focus with Focus Assist (2X, 4X)
• Exposure Compensation, Exposure Lock
• Flat Profile (increased dynamic range)
• Noise Reduction configuration

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.frozenvolcano.android.cinema4k

Banding:

example: i´m shooting a sunset with the gh2

1. set the proyect settings to 16bit
2. double the layer
3. on the upper layer isolate the banding area, can be rotoscoped, or keyed out, in this example is easy to key out the sky as it is only made of one color
4. on the bottom layer use a blur effect

--pros: it truly gets rids of the banding

--cons: is useful only for soft areas with not much detail, but then again, banding almost always appears only on these areas

Dynamic range:

example: im shooting an actor on a bedroom, and a window is in frame, therefore i´m in backlight against the sun, so either i blow up the window or i underexpose for the actor, unless i increase the light of the bedroom, i have to choose, here is a trick:

1. Camera must be stationary (over a tripod)
2. Shoot the scene, exposing for the talent
3. Without changing the frame, shoot again with no actor, exposing for the window
4. Mix both shoots on the editor, rotoscoping the window against the actor.

--pros: increases the dynamic range of a camera, gives more information for color grading

--cons: the camera shouldnt move, and rotoscoping is tedious

The TRANSITION DESIGNER, the plug-in for professional transitions, is now a free-of-charge lean version in addition to the Full und Lite Version for Adobe Premiere Pro available with the following features for Mac and PC:

High-quality wipe effect with a lot of adjustable parameters such as angle, transition easing (linear, easy in & out), feathered edge, blur and glow effect. Many of the parameters support keyframes and we also included the powerful time remapping function. All transitions are GPU accelerated for real-time playback!

Get your free version here: bit.ly/accevolution

It ouputs mov/mp4 files.

With QT Pro on Windows I can Trim and save without encoding. I'm looking for a similar workflow on Linux(Ubuntu/Mint).

Some of the linux apps such as Openshot do have mov/mp4 output but restricted to 40 Mb/s.

Format : MPEG-4 Format profile : Base Media / Version 2 Codec ID : mp42 File size : 850 MiB Duration : 2mn 37s Overall bit rate mode : Variable Overall bit rate : 45.2 Mbps

Video ID : 1 Format : AVC Format/Info : Advanced Video Codec Format profile : High@L4.2 Format settings, CABAC : Yes Format settings, ReFrames : 2 frames Codec ID : avc1 Codec ID/Info : Advanced Video Coding Duration : 2mn 37s Bit rate mode : Variable Bit rate : 45.0 Mbps Maximum bit rate : 49.2 Mbps Width : 1 920 pixels Height : 1 080 pixels Display aspect ratio : 16:9 Frame rate mode : Constant Frame rate : 59.940 fps Color space : YUV Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0 Bit depth : 8 bits Scan type : Progressive Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.362 Color primaries : BT.709 Transfer characteristics : BT.709 Matrix coefficients : BT.709

Audio ID : 2 Format : AAC Format/Info : Advanced Audio Codec Format profile : LC Codec ID : 40 Duration : 2mn 37s Source duration : 2mn 37s Bit rate mode : Constant Bit rate : 256 Kbps Channel(s) : 2 channels Channel positions : Front: L R Sampling rate : 48.0 KHz Compression mode : Lossy Stream size : 4.76 MiB (1%) Source stream size : 4.76 MiB (1%) Language : English Encoded date : UTC 2015-08-15 23:12:14 Tagged date

Site: http://www.neatvideo.com/

GH3 profiles - http://www.personal-view.com/talks/discussion/1003/gh2-neat-video-noise-profiles

Does anyone have a preset or know of an ideal setting to deal with footage screwed by the GH2 ISO noise-bug?

I just finished editing a project I filmed before I knew of the extent of the bug and have a lot of affected scenes shot at ISO 640.

I am not partial to NeatVideo so any other software/techniques ( @shian perhaps in CG? ) would be appreciated. Let me be clear that I already have my footage and reshooting is NOT an option.

When you shoot and edit 4K video or 3D video how do you deliver it to your clients?

Can someone please shed some light on what is going on because If I edit the photos using hte In-cam editor there are no pink highlights.

Lightroom 6,

Photoshop CC,

Capture one

The program can be built on Windows Linux or Mac OS X, but the program does not fully test on MacOS X. I am trying to optimize the re-drawing efficiency as current the program re-drawing is very slow!

Main features

• Support YUV file
• Both 8bit and 10bit YUV file
• RGB pixel value of the frame in HEX mode or normal mode
• Y/U/V single color component
• Recognize the formated YUV width and height, and remember the width/height when open it second time
• Support the thumbnails of the YUV file and HEVC stream file
• Support scaling the frame of YUV and stream file in different size
• Frame Ruler shows the frame size
• Support HEVC stream file
• CU/PU/TU coding block structure
• PU type viewing
• Tiles viewing (partly support)
• Motion Vector
• Frame bit allocation (soon)
• POC/Frame decoding order

https://github.com/XimingCheng/HEVCAnalyzer

In order to focus on other software products and services, including the free version of GoPro Studio available here, GoPro has ended development of GoPro Studio Premium and Professional. Beginning June 1, 2015, these titles will no longer be available for sale on CineForm.com.

GoPro will continue to provide support to users who have purchased a license for Premium and Pro, up until Dec 31, 2015. Support will be limited to answering questions related to workflows. GoPro will not be creating new builds to address bugs, support new operating systems, or to support new graphics cards. If you have support related questions, click here to contact customer support or use one of the links below.

http://cineform.com/

Of course it is slow and it does not allow me to play in realtime. But it keeps any grain details and extreme lighting because 10-bit floating point is used.

Also my workflow is for 100,000 and more frame videos (many hours in Full HD), so I do not know how it is compatible with Windows file systems. I use RAID0 NTFS disks. Is there any problems or pluses/minuses of using this file format? Currently I use H.264/ProRes.

Adobe has just released the v8.8 of the ACR and DNG converter (from BETA to non beta)

This version is focused on bring support for users of CS6 and before to let import files from new cameras, well RAW files and DNG files from new cameras (blackmagic, vision research, kinevision, etc ..)

Some users reports say that 8.8 new release still does not work, at least on Windows XP with CS6 as the instaler does not allow install on XP. A few apps are out there supporting conversions from CinemaDNG and RAW files: Cinemartin Cinec 4.0, et c .. but no one free -

Source: http://thehouseofvideo.com/adobe-updates-acr-and-dng-converter-to-v8-8/

C: Drive : OS, Programs, Pagefile
D: Drive : Media, Projects
E: Drive : Previews, Media Cache, Exports

1. OS / Software / Pagefile = Samsung 840 Pro 500GB SSD
2. Media / ProjectsMedia Cache / Previews / Exports = Samsung 850 EVO 128gb SSD

somthibng like that? I dont need some huge expensive raid setup jus somthing like that and 2 backup normal 7200rpm drives. 

This has been troubling me for some time, mostly because of woes and contradictions when creating DCPs with subtitles: the Interop standard (called "bad" dcp by the author) demands 24fps which is often not the rate of the original material nor spotted subtitles, plus the general information I have is that only SMPTE subtitles are reliable. Except many theaters still cannot play this DCP norm!(which is what the author of the post above states, written in the year 2014)

Does someone have the magic-bullet answer to DCPs with subtitles?

Natron

Thanks to @czarek for heads up on this "thing" called Natron.
Actually in version 1.2.1 and beta v2, it comes bundled with lots of useful plugins and features and there's some more you can throw in for free, like the TuttleOFXs. If you're doing frequent or/and complex composite work and want a FREE node based workflow solution, check this baby out, it's a clone of Nuke... for more adventurous, less purchasing power people with loads of work :P

It is not by any means my "area", so other people can take over the thread and give better and knowledgeable answers and advice.
I can only say that I'm really enjoying the experience, cheers =)

Natron forum - https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/natron-vfx

 
 
MERCI BEAUCOUP à Alexandre Gauthier-Foichat et Fréderic Devernay
and all people contributing to this project

I got LUT buddy ect.

Some new stuff:

• Advanced Healing Brush allows customers to heal imperfections and remove distracting elements
• Upright tool analyzes an image to automatically level horizons and straighten objects like buildings to correct a keystone effect
• Radial Gradient tool creates off-center or multiple vignette effects
• Smart Previews allow customers to edit images without needing the original raw file
• Video slideshow enables customers to combine still images, video clips and music in a creative HD slideshow
• Upgrades to the Book module enhancing the ability to create, customize and order elegant photo books using a variety of tailored templates

http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/lightroom5/