On-Set Dailies 2012 Winter Release Release Notes Colorfront On-Set Dailies™ User Guide Copyright © 2012. All Rights Reserved. Document revision 0.2 Colorfront.2012.02.
Table of Contents 2012 WINTER RELEASE 3 H IGHLIGHTS 3 F EATURES /IMPROVEMENTS CAMERA FORMAT SUPPORT WORKFLOW 4 4 4 VIDEO IO STEREOGRAPHY 4 4 METADATA HANDLING CDL AND LOOK MANAGEMENT CONFORM 5 5 6 USABILITY USER INTERFACE 6 7 B ETA O NLY F EATURES (N OT I NCLUDED IN S TABLE B UILD ) I MPORTANT N OTES R EQUIREMENTS FOR 4K AND HFR VIDEO OUTPUT 8 8 9 F IXES D ATABASE S
2012 Winter Release This document lists the new features, enhancements, improvements as well as bug fixes and database script changes from the last official Stable Release (build 4323) of Colorfront On-Set Dailies. The On-Set Dailies 2012 Winter Stable Release builds are: ● ● Windows 7 - osd48XX_winter.msi Mac OS X - osd48YY_winter.pkg Note: the entire feature and bug fixes list so far can be found in changes_stable.txt on Colorfront’s On-Set Dailies download website.
Features/improvements Cam era Form at Support ● ● ● Multi-camera projects / templates: grade template for each camera Sony F65RAW Sony SRFile (SStP) ● ● ● ● ● ● Sony XDCAM EX Canon C300 Panasonic P2 GoPro ARRIRAW 4:3, anamorphic support 3K++ debayer option enhancements for ARRIRAW ● ● 16 bit dpx support on input DPX YUV 10bit support. Workflow ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● OSD Background renderer / render queue mechanism MXF audio rendering is enabled from settings page.
● ● ● New tool: Stereo de-fuse. It creates a stereo pipe out of an over/under or sidebyside image Analyze Depth tool Anaglyph and checkerboard stereo viewing modes Metadata Handling ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● Metadata encoders: Alexa XML, CDL and ALE renderer added You can force the keycode calculation from database with the FILM/KeycodeOnlyFromDatabase settings parameter. Exposing the HDRxMode on the RED tool HUD Support for Arri DCS lens metadata (.cus file).
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● ● ● ● Renamed proxy to clone on the GUI CDL color wheels visible if Arri Look is active Fit node names into nodes on node page Movie framerate checking and give warning if mismatch.
Requirements for 4K and HFR video output The new, 4K video output feature introduced in On-Set Dailies 2012 Winter Release requires specific video hardware and software to function. Video output in 4K is supported on the following cards only: Atomix DVI or Atomix HDMI with the "Atomix 4K R/T" license, and the RedRocket, and the On-Set Dailies "4K" software license from Colorfront. HD-SDI 4K output requires the Breakout Box (BOB) for Atomix or Breakout Box for the RedRocket.
● ● Reset in Stereo Tool (corner pin control reset) Reset BurnIn resets Opacity value to 0 instead of 100 ● ● If a project is deleted, "Unable to load settings.." error message should not be displayed ccc load optimizations ● ● ● project page preferences did not work Scrolling is slow in case of long timeline in Storyboard view Load Long luxtore and timeline and exit multiple times caused bad thumbnails.
● Backslash character appears in QC PDF report, if underscore used in Scene/Take metadata ● ● Some user defined custom post-processes fail to run OSD crashes if post process uses $MediaStartFileNumber$ ● ● ● EDL black and invalid events not properly handled in OSD Element: Node selection is not working on the navigation panel all "real time" metadata available in metadata view (U) ● ● Editing projects settings from the load page takes effect for second load only If HUD visible, grade version displayi
● ● fixes: 0001168: Display information message if long EDL is loaded fix: length of black EDL events ● ● Fix: multiple users accessing the same project overwrite the stillstores -> lost stills Anamorphic Red fix ● ● ● luts are not saved - Ctrl + k - on mac os x New quicktime qtstart chapter fix. Keycode import from FLEx files fix. ● ● changing dve2d zoom parameter Fix: render does not start as pause state saved in the encode.
● ● Fix: black events in EDL timelines have wrong length if project framerate is not 24 Auto decrease cuda_buffer_num for GTX cards and do not use double gpu threads on gtx ● 590 Fix: metadata view U causes crash if there are not 10 datanames listed ● ● ● Stereo metadata fixes (dominant eye metadata into deliverables and ALE) Fix for 0000894: Tapes not visible on project load screen if .RDM in tape directory name. Stereo Metadata flow fix: the left and right eye metadata swapped with stereo swap.
● ● Multichannel24 rendered WAV files do not have the same channel as the source Fixing analyze tool licensing problem ● ● Fix: ALE is not correct if ALETapeName is set to CamRoll Crash while scrub the audio timeline or click in sound TCs on Sound page ● ● ● Processing Arri RAW files of version 4 in header Fix for not being able to load Arri Look shots if LutFromMedia is not available Fix: "No Result" when not rendering the actual result.
● Fix: if a "NEW" timeline is loaded, going to the VTRoll page and back results in "empty timeline" error message ● ● Fix: VTRoll page malfunction if M is pressed Fix: if project settings are opened from the load page, then after loading a timeline no ● ● tools are selectable "Exit without save" information message is not displayed if you press Shift+ESC CP-200 connection fix ● ● MOS timeline plays noise on Mac. Old ARRIRAW file's TC support. ● Fix for the 0000776: Default result for Clean output.
● ● Wild track audio shots not linking in Avid if source container is used as the tape name iPad grade saves only one dpx file in case of RGBlin setup ● ● Load audio at EDL conform MXF audio rendering fixes ● ● TAB button should step back 2 secs and start playing back on the sound page (setting page should be disabled) Audio desynchronized after deleting shot ● ● Hang if Q/W/E pressed on the sound page while playing Fixed WAV render regression: no wav is rendered for timeline if first shot is mos ●
● ● Project webpage is now customizable so that installing the new build does not destroy the changes. The user simply needs to rename customscripts.example.php to customscripts.php and add the custom php/html code there. Wrong timecode shown in the Sync columns of the sound page if project framerate is ● 23.976 Making the AudioFile field in the DB longer, so long paths fit in even if longer than 150 chars.
