Conformed DPX sequence?

[Russell A]

I need to deliver a short film to a coloring house that has requested a "conformed/rendered 2k dpx sequence". I'm playing catch-up on how to achieve this. I've figured out how to export the DPX files through After Effects and even Premiere CS5, but am confused about what the conformed/rendered dpx sequence would entail.

Does it mean that I put the dpx files into order on a Premiere or After Effects timeline and then export an EDL that I deliver (along with the DPX files) to the coloring house? Any help is greatly appreciated, especially since I'm under a tight deadline and have to play catch-up with this process.

 

[Eren Ozkural]

If the DPXs have been named in numerical order they should be fine. I haven't come across anyone asking for "conformed/rendered DPX sequence" specifically so I'm not sure what that would entail but I have exported and given colorists and post houses 2K DPX sequences and haven't heard back any complaints.

 

[jake blackstone]

I need to deliver a short film to a coloring house that has requested a "conformed/rendered 2k dpx sequence". I'm playing catch-up on how to achieve this. I've figured out how to export the DPX files through After Effects and even Premiere CS5, but am confused about what the conformed/rendered dpx sequence would entail.

Does it mean that I put the dpx files into order on a Premiere or After Effects timeline and then export an EDL that I deliver (along with the DPX files) to the coloring house? Any help is greatly appreciated, especially since I'm under a tight deadline and have to play catch-up with this process.

If the selected post house can't accept R3D files and the EDL, than you may need to find another place to do you grading. By now, any post house should be able to do that...
Otherwise, when in doubt, use Clipfinder...

 

[Russell A]

If the selected post house can't accept R3D files and the EDL, than you may need to find another place to do you grading. By now, any post house should be able to do that...
Otherwise, when in doubt, use Clipfinder...

The coloring house is one of the top in the industry, but they are giving us a stellar deal only if we can deliver the dpx sequence ourselves in order to save time. I'll check out clipfinder.

Thanks for the help!

 

[jake blackstone]

The coloring house is one of the top in the industry, but they are giving us a stellar deal only if we can deliver the dpx sequence ourselves in order to save time. I'll check out clipfinder.

Thanks for the help!

You should be looking at the colorist performing the grade and not at the post house. Can't tell you how many times people were disappointed, when they went to the so called "top house" and ended up with a colorist assistant or a colorist, who couldn't care less about their little project. Going to the top house doesn't mean you'll get top quality service. Just the simple fact, that they want you to do the debayer, shouts to me, that it's a very bad idea.

 

[Steve Freebairn]

The coloring house is one of the top in the industry, but they are giving us a stellar deal only if we can deliver the dpx sequence ourselves in order to save time. I'll check out clipfinder.

Thanks for the help!

It'd be really interesting to know what post house. Jake is right about pointing you to Clipfinder.

 

[shashbugu]

I need to deliver a short film to a coloring house that has requested a "conformed/rendered 2k dpx sequence". I'm playing catch-up on how to achieve this. I've figured out how to export the DPX files through After Effects and even Premiere CS5, but am confused about what the conformed/rendered dpx sequence would entail.

Does it mean that I put the dpx files into order on a Premiere or After Effects timeline and then export an EDL that I deliver (along with the DPX files) to the coloring house? Any help is greatly appreciated, especially since I'm under a tight deadline and have to play catch-up with this process.

Lets Stay on topic. A conform is exactly that exporting your online edit as a 2k DPX Sequence. If you understand exporting DPX from ppro CS5, thats all you. Most high end post houses don't really need EDL' or Xmls. With a DPX they can automatically detect edit points, including transitions etc as transcribed in the meta data.
Caution make sure you use a cleaned and reformatted external drive. or reformat your drive before you export every-time. Its a slow and careful process.

enjoy

 

[Russell A]

Lets Stay on topic. A conform is exactly that exporting your online edit as a 2k DPX Sequence. If you understand exporting DPX from ppro CS5, thats all you. Most high end post houses don't really need EDL' or Xmls. With a DPX they can automatically detect edit points, including transitions etc as transcribed in the meta data.
Caution make sure you use a cleaned and reformatted external drive. or reformat your drive before you export every-time. Its a slow and careful process.

enjoy

That's great to know. I appreciate it.

On some of the 4k clips, I've done digital keyframe zoom-ins (since I'm finishing in 2k) as well as re-framing. Any idea if these elements will translate into the DPX metadata? I would assume so, especially if I'm exporting the DPX sequence directly through my online edit with Premiere CS5.

 

[jake blackstone]

Lets Stay on topic. A conform is exactly that exporting your online edit as a 2k DPX Sequence. If you understand exporting DPX from ppro CS5, thats all you. Most high end post houses don't really need EDL' or Xmls. With a DPX they can automatically detect edit points, including transitions etc as transcribed in the meta data.
Caution make sure you use a cleaned and reformatted external drive. or reformat your drive before you export every-time. Its a slow and careful process.

enjoy

No cuts or transitions are described in metadata. Cuts can be auto detected by the software shot detector, but dissolves need to be detected manually and every duration has to be counted and set manually. Some grading software does dissolves at the beginning of the event, some in the middle, like Lustre. If original names of the files preserved in the DPX sequence, then EDL can be used for reconstructing cuts and dissolves, but again, it depends on the type of dissolve.

 

[jake blackstone]

That's great to know. I appreciate it.

On some of the 4k clips, I've done digital keyframe zoom-ins (since I'm finishing in 2k) as well as re-framing. Any idea if these elements will translate into the DPX metadata? I would assume so, especially if I'm exporting the DPX sequence directly through my online edit with Premiere CS5.

The info given is incorrect. There is no such metadata information. I wish there was, as it would've made my life much easier. Nevertheless, your post house should be able to match the move and Pan and Scan by playing your off line QT and conformed DPX sequence side by side. But again, that would have to be done manually. You may check into that, as these things tend to inflate cost of color grading very fast and your great deal may quickly turn out to be not so great after all.

 

[C. Jagan Mohan]

First of all: "conformed/rendered 2k dpx sequence" means: you need to exactly freeze in the in-points and out-points of your R3D files on a time line on whatever the NLE platforms you use and render the DPX outs. It means they do not want to do anything with you EDL or confirming data. In one word, they just want your final sequence. This is what we ask generally.

All your digital key frame zoom-ins, you are suppose to render to 2K DPX files from the time line. They will not accept any meta data.