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Journey to the Center of the Earth - SCRATCH

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Lucas Wilson

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Hi all,

Soon, I should be able to post here about a pretty big RED stereo feature that SCRATCH is currently being used on as an integral part of the finishing toolset. ;)

But until then... I thought the collective here might be interested in how Journey to the Center of the Earth was onlined, graded and finished. The entire feature was conformed and graded in live stereo on SCRATCH. Pardon the slight sales angle here, but the artists at Walden and the crew of JTCE (and some folks at ASSIMILATE) worked very hard to put together the post pipeline for this feature, and I'm proud of everyone's efforts!

http://www.assimilateinc.com/pdfs/SCRATCH_casestudy_JTTCE.pdf

Some tech specs:

There were five SCRATCH systems that essentially did the entire post-process for conforming, grading, and finishing. Four of the SCRATCH systems were tied to a medium-sized SAN (2x Terrablock 24Ds) all seeing and working with the same media. One SCRATCH was the I/O station and logging/QC. Another SCRATCH handled conform and coordination with editorial and VFX. Another SCRATCH with a full set of Tangent CP-200 panels did the grade in live stereo tied to dual projectors with passive circular polarization.There was also quite a bit of interocular and convergence fixes that happened as well - live in SCRATCH. To do real interocular is hard and really is properly handled as a VFX shot, but minor tweaks without serious depth-of-field issues were handled in the grading session with the Director looking on.

To my knowledge, this was the first full feature graded in a live DI Stereo environment in a client-supervised setting. It's not the first released, but the grading for this feature was done mid-summer 2007.

Best,

Lucas Wilson
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ASSIMILATE, inc.
LA, CA, USA
 
Congrats Lucas! Im getting in line to be the 2nd stereo Scratch feature!
 
jedi666 said:
my friend is the supervisor of IT for Walden and was very happy with the whole process and the final product. plus they delivered the DPX reels to Technicolor via FTP!
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Uhh, Im guessing they have something faster than my mega mach 8 connection from verizon. :sarcasm:

Soho net?
 
Congrats Lucas,

will be using soon your system from Blair to grade the "GARBO" shoot we recently deed, I also posted here as it was my Directorial debut, but Blair has offered to redo post on SCRATCH, so I'll take that opportunity to play with your system as I'm seriously considering it for my new Studios in Vegas.


ciao
 
"“Journey to the Center of the Earth” was shot on the
Cameron/Pace Fusion 3D Camera. The files were first played
out on the HDCAM SR on dual tapes. It was then loaded onto
tape decks, converted to DPX files, and then imported by
SCRATCH. Avid was used to edit the offline cut and create the
EDLs. The visual effects were already delivered in DPX and
were easily dropped into SCRATCH."

Luki, unfortunetally no RED involved.
 
do u have some before/after screens?
 
Congrats Lucas!

Awesome read. I worked with Steven Kaminsky on Superman Returns, he's a great guy and knows his stuff. I'm so glad to see those guys are pushing Scratch in such a great way, well done!

Cheers,
Seth.
 
It was for Scratch since that what was the original post was about.
 
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