Storm for other cameras?

[Benjamin Rowland]

I watched a demo of Storm last night - wow! This is quite an impressive tool, and I look forward to seeing how it will evolve.

I'll assume that it will be opened up to other digital cameras like the Alexa.

Would it be possible to open it up for use in a film workflow?

 

[Chris Steele]

I watched a demo of Storm last night - wow! This is quite an impressive tool, and I look forward to seeing how it will evolve.

I'll assume that it will be opened up to other digital cameras like the Alexa.

Would it be possible to open it up for use in a film workflow?

Hi Ben,

Yes, we certainly plan to open it up to work with other cameras. We're interested high-end digital cameras, but also the massive use of DSLRs as B cameras. We think you'll need to be able to edit them all together.

A 'film workflow'? What exactly do you mean?

Thanks for the interest,

 

[Benjamin Rowland]

Hi Ben,

Yes, we certainly plan to open it up to work with other cameras. We're interested high-end digital cameras, but also the massive use of DSLRs as B cameras. We think you'll need to be able to edit them all together.

A 'film workflow'? What exactly do you mean?

Thanks for the interest,

For film? Well...
Have your film developed and scanned to DPX. Drop the DPX files into Storm, sync audio BWF files to them, and then send these to your NLE as an easy to edit file like ProRes. You'd edit with the ProRes "dailies", and when you're done, send an XML back to Storm for a conform of the DPX and BWF files. Once conformed send an EDL out to your color-correction software and your audio mixing software.

Usually the sound guy records isolated tracks and mixdown tracks. You could use the mixdown track for offline, then replace these with the isolated tracks for the final mix.


I know you can already do this with current software, but Storm seems so much more user-friendly. It could make the process easier, more streamlined, smarter. What do you think, Chris?
Keep up the great work!

 

[Jim Geduldick]

Ben

For film I get your workflow as it is a typical scan workflow.
But in the case of RED currently in Storm you would just re link back to the original R3D if wanted.
Some of what your asking for is built into Storm just currently not the timeline support for DPX.

 

[Tom.Wong]

would be interesting to see this as the all in one solution from production to post, to conform and finish for all top of the line digital cinema cameras with a tapeless workflow. Arri-raw, Redcode, possibly even a way to handle phantom footage, and also the upcoming Penelope 4k. This is exactly what this industry needs, more unification in the tools we use. Something to bind it all together to keep everybody on the same page efficiently.

 

[Chris Steele]

For film? Well...
Have your film developed and scanned to DPX. Drop the DPX files into Storm, sync audio BWF files to them, and then send these to your NLE as an easy to edit file like ProRes. You'd edit with the ProRes "dailies", and when you're done, send an XML back to Storm for a conform of the DPX and BWF files. Once conformed send an EDL out to your color-correction software and your audio mixing software.

Hi Ben,

Just checking that you did not have some other idea in mind. Yes, as Jim pointed out, when we roll out DPX format support, this should work. DPX support not likely until 2011.

Thanks!

 

[Benjamin Rowland]

Hi Ben,

Just checking that you did not have some other idea in mind. Yes, as Jim pointed out, when we roll out DPX format support, this should work. DPX support not likely until 2011.

Thanks!

Glad to hear that DPX support is part of the plan. Storm looks like a great piece of software that will just keep getting better!