Foundry Storm...

[Jannard]

Has anyone not tried it? You need to.

Jim

 

[Taylor Morrison]

Good morning! Yes I have tried it and it seems to have lots of potential. Too bad I am in the middle of a project on RCX and can not spend much time with Storm. Your up early!

 

[Taylor Morrison]

The editorial end is the most interesting addition. It looks not to be a 64bit application though... renders are slower than RCX. I wonder if that is in the works.

 

[Nick Shaw]

It's not 64 bit at the moment, but a 64 bit version is in the works.

 

[Rudi Herbert]

Dying to Jim, but some of us deviants need to wait for a PC version

 

[Dave Dessel]

This is going to be a great App when it is done. Right now it is slow and renders my Quicktimes dark and out of sync.

I am really digging RCX with the Tangent Wave. The combo is killer.

-DD

 

[Michael Mann]

Waiting for the PC version.

 

[Steve Freebairn]

I know they're working tirelessly to send out updates. It looks to be heading in a great direction.

 

[Tony Lorentzen]

Yup. I have tried it and it's looking real promising too! Not the best Rocket-enabled playback at the moment and I have still to see how batch exporting works but I really like how fast you can apply looks and check the real-time scopes.

 

[Johnny Friday]

I'm in the same boat. Tried beta v. 1 & 2 now and still have to many minor bugs for me to use it daily. Rocket gives me some difficulty on it as well as many other items to numerous to mention. That said, yes i see the potential of Storm and will be in line to buy and use it in my workflow. But having spent tireless years now with redcine and now rcx, i know it too well and there's not guessing there. I look forward to foundry smoothing out the bumps quickly so i can put the storm to work.

 

[Michael Hastings]

Dying to Jim, but some of us deviants need to wait for a PC version

Set your deviant ways aside and get a mac, Rudi.

(ps call me when u can, have some ideas on the 3D stuff.)

 

[Tim Morten]

Can't wait for the PC version!

 

[Robert Frank]

Powerful tag functionality.

 

[Antonio Forjaz]

Tried it. Liked it. But still some things missing...just downloaded the new version, will try it soon...

 

[Jeremy Torrie]

Us PC freaks need to be patient, or jump ship to the Dark Side.

 

[Mark L. Pederson]

You are going to see bug fixes and more features over the next few weeks.

I can tell you this - the realtime histograms + scopes with fact that you can white balance in the viewer while the rocket is outputting the image - is just awesome. The viewer and rocket output are always live at the same time.

You can review and re-white balance footage lightning fast.

Even if you do all your processing/transcoding in RCX - you REALLY should check out storm just for how fast you can review and check footage on set.

I will mention that in my last round of tests with theFCP XML - I have seen FCP mess up some XMLs (go figure) - so, if you are having issues with loading in an XML -open the XML in a text editor and make sure everything seems correct.

But yeah - so very cool to "reconnect media" back to R3Ds.

 

[Sanjin Jukic]

Familiar from day one with Storm Beta.

 

[John Marchant]

How are people finding the speed of interface interaction with / without Rocket? I feel as though I can't grade effectively, and certainly not quickly, because the visual feedback from the interface is too slow, even at lower qualities. Even simple things like waving the mouse pointer over an image to check RGB values give sluggish results.

Is this just me? Surely its not all rocket related?

Very promising application though, with the simple stuff like clip organisation and tagging dealt with from the outset

 

[Kyle Mallory]

Jim,

Curious if anyone has tried IFX Software's 'Ant'... If you haven't you should! Despite running on Linux, at least you can download the OS and install it on either Mac or PC hardware.

When Storm was announced, I was a little surprised to see the hype, since I've been doing most everything it does with Ant for more than a year now (has it been two?). It's not as pretty as storm in the UI, but its equally less distracting.

For the record, I helped write R3D/RAW support for Ant, but am otherwise not affiliated with them. If I could just finally see that damned Linux Rocket support, we'd really have something!

 

[Steve Sherrick]

As mentioned, lots of potential and with the understanding that this is an open beta, I have high hopes it will be refined and perhaps expanded to handle a lot of needs on set. Has a lot of good things going for it right now. There are some issues as mentioned. What might be helpful is for people to list their system configs when providing feedback. Certainly there will be a difference using this on a MBP as opposed to a smoking fast brand new Mac Pro. So that type of info would be useful when assessing the feedback.