Interpolating frames on the X track for HDRX

[Michael Epple]

I know that with both simple blend and magic motion that there is no frame by frame interpolation of the X track to match the motion blur of the A frame. I thought I heard that The Foundry had made MNMB for Storm that is supposed to do this. Problem is that Storm is discontinued and I was never able to check. Are there any other post applications that can do this, Scratch, Resolve, etc? It seems the only way I know of at the moment is output the X frame clip and send to After effects to interpolate the motion blur. Does anyone have experience with this, not just blending exposure but adding motion blur?

 

[Michael Epple]

Nobody? 50 views and nobody?

 

[paulherrin]

I would look for this capability in Nuke (made by the Foundry, who developed Storm). You can already use optical flow technology in Nuke and Twixtor/ReelSmart in AE, but I hope/think that the Foundry is working on some magic that will use the A track as a kind of guide. Send them a message, they're pretty good about getting back. Let us know what you find out. (I can send them one if you'd rather, just let me know) Oh, and be patient... everybody wants answers

 

[Les Dittert]

You could try the free 'merge tool' that 19lights makes for the Magic Lantern hack on the Canon DSLR .
You will need to render a fake video file with the alternating hi-low exposures. It's working from 8 bits, so that's a downside. Good for an experiment.

In case you guys don't know, the Magic Lantern firmware adds a bunch of cool features to the Canon, including an HDR mode that is similar to HDRX, except it alternates ISO instead of shutter speed!

 

[Gavin Greenwalt]

RSMB motion blur is the best in my opinion for this.

 

[Michael Epple]

What is RSMB?

 

[Michael Epple]

Is that RE:Vision Reel Smart Motion Blur? If so, what's your workflow with it?

 

[paulherrin]

yeah, he's talking about reelsmart. it's pretty straightforward to use, i haven't done any tests for hdrx with it, but just flip between the two frames until they are more closely resembling one another.