Quality control

[Uli Plank]

(Sorry if this has been requested before.)

I consider a secure method of quality control crucial to any on-set software for R3D files. Storm (or REDCine-X) should check for damaged frames on import and mark them. Now that damaged frames are not green any more, but grey, it got even harder to notice them. On set it's often near impossible to run them in real-time to spot them safely.

Even better would be a test for clipping of in-camera audio as well.

I believe that people would even what pay an extra for a special version of either program doing this.

 

[Chris Steele]

I consider a secure method of quality control crucial to any on-set software for R3D files. Storm (or REDCine-X) should check for damaged frames on import and mark them. Now that damaged frames are not green any more, but grey, it got even harder to notice them. On set it's often near impossible to run them in real-time to spot them safely.

Even better would be a test for clipping of in-camera audio as well.

Hi Uli,
We've wanted to include some automated QC from the start, but have been hampered by a lack of time and a lack of examples.
Any examples that folks have of audio or video that we should be able to flag automatically, please get in touch so that we can arrange and ftp upload. Then we can use these to develop and extend automated QC tools.

All the best,
Chris

 

[Aleksandar Colancevski]

I expected repacking feature of R3D into Storm, maybe I was misinformed?
Or hasn't found it yet?

 

[Chris Steele]

I expected repacking feature of R3D into Storm, maybe I was misinformed?
Or hasn't found it yet?

Hi Aleksandar,
Do you mean trimming R3D files? I.e. creating a new R3D file with a sub-clip of the original one?
Thanks,
Chris

 

[Aleksandar Colancevski]

Yes, I meant creating new R3D file. For archiving purposes it can save a lot of space if we can "clean" our R3D recordings.

 

[Chris Steele]

Yes, I meant creating new R3D file. For archiving purposes it can save a lot of space if we can "clean" our R3D recordings.

Cool, thanks for the clarification.

We have it implemented but there are a number of wrinkles we need to check out. Many are to do with recognising that this new R3D file is a sub-clip of the original when it comes to conforming. We're working on these and hoped to include it in beta 5 next week, but it may miss that if some of the wrinkles prove a little resistant!

All the best,

Chris

 

[Jochen Schmidt-Hambrock]

QC of audio would benefit from a simple warning if more than 3 consecutiv samples are at maximum.

Then playing that part.

Jochen

 

[Dan A]

QC of audio would benefit from a simple warning if more than 3 consecutiv samples are at maximum.

Then playing that part.

Jochen

Hi Jochen, thank you for the feedback. This has now been logged as Ref: 16124


many thanks,
Dan