Our friend Tom...interviewed !

[Eric Ulbrich]

Great work, but there is something that doesn't quite make sense to me. You take 16 bit TIFF sequence and encode it into Prores and then color grade it? Why don't you just grade the TIFF sequence? Any high end grading software will grade 16 bit TIFFs just fine. Incidentally, TIFFs is the one of the two formats, JPEG 2000 being the other one, that is accepted for the DCI packaging, so it's a pretty standard format in the DI process. Prores is a highly compressed codec and you should always strive to grade using uncompressed files, such as TIFF, DPX, Cineon, uncompressed 10 bit QT etc.

Good point! I do pro-res before because it allows me to grade the clip and not have to worry about grading individual stills. Perhaps I could just export as a image sequence and re-import into color. Im going to go test now!

 

[Uli Plank]

If you want to do HDRI time-lapse, Photomatix is great tool. I has a batch mode and we have used it for that purpose.

 

[I Bloom]

Amazing,

Tom is that the Owens Valley Research Observatory?

IBloom

 

[Richard Fox]

Words can't express

Words can't express

how beautiful that is. Thank you Tom and Thank you Larry for posting the link. I just shared this with Chris Anderson, the curator of the TED conference.

 

[Tom Lowe]

Amazing,

Tom is that the Owens Valley Research Observatory?

IBloom

Yes. The moonlit shot with the snow-capped mountains was the Very Long Baseline Array's 25-meter dish in Owens Valley (Big Pine). It's a beautiful telescope.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Very_Long_Baseline_Array

There are also a couple of VLA shots from New Mexico in there, but it was incredibly windy when I was there. I'm hoping to head back there.

Larry has also been to VLBA with me shooting, and to VLA, although our story of meeting at VLA is kind of a farce... it's very funny. I spotted Larry's car out at VLA and tried to flag him down, but Larry thought I was VLA security and fled down the highway... lmao. :rofl:

 

[Sean]

Tom is a master of time lapse. Always stunning images. If he could make the equivalent of a "motion coffee table" book, he'd sell a million.

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