LUT Translator

Ever been asked to deliver a Lustre or Clipster LUT when all of your various LUT building softwares just don't export it?

"Translate all your look-up-tables in all formats within one application. LUT-Translator reads and writes any 1D and 3D LUT format and keeps your LUTs organized in a document-based database. Any LUTs can be easily combined. Write as many duplicates in different formats as needed from any LUT with one easy step."

LUT Translator by digital colorist, Florian Martin, now available on the Mac App Store for 299 USD

I haven't dug super deep into this yet but did some initial testing from Lustre to .cube, a few other formats, and back again. It seems to work great. Spot on translation from mesh to mesh.

Here are the formats currently supported:

1D:
Lustre
Cube1d
Nucoda
Fugo
Shake
Cinetal
Codex
Sonysrw
Fusion_16bit
Arriscan

3D:
Lustre
Float3d_32
OSD3d
Cube3d
Cinetal
Clipster
Codex
Fusion
Baselightcube
Color Pandora
Nucoda
Luther
DaVinci
Luttemplate_3d

There are quite a few formats missing from this list but I'm assuming more will be added over time. You can go back and forth between any of these, combine meshes, and translate 1D to 3D and vice versa (taking into account the limitations of 1D LUT's of course). I'd say LUT Translator is a powerful and aggressively priced utility for color management.

via Chris MacKarell at Arri CSC - Secaucus, NJ

ARRIRAW on CD Gemini

RE-BLOG!

LA based DIT, Adrian Jebef, has some great info on Arriraw support coming to the Convergent Design Gemini Recorder at his excellent blog, The Digital Parade. I've been impressed with the Gemini and have always felt that Arriraw is a wonderful thing that has been unfortunately cost prohibitive to a lot of productions that could benefit from it. It will be fantastic to have another recording option for the Alexa that isn't going to add a rental onto the package that's as much as the camera. 

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Scratch Lab

I've been demo-ing Scratch Lab by Assimilate - very smart, very slick software for the creation of on-set deliverables. It's interesting because there are a lot of tools available now for transcoding raw or uncorrected camera media into great looking, synced up files ready to go for the editor or whoever else needs them. Among these workflow options we run the price gamut from free to moderately expensive to extremely expensive and all of them basically do the same thing but with varying degrees of efficiency and economy. I think the versatility of Scratch Lab, while certainly an investment at 6000 USD, is appropriately priced in relation to the other available solutions. This software really was designed with the on-set colorist in mind and can accomodate any sort of workflow and can output just about any flavor of file you would ever be asked for. And it's fast. I've been rendering 23.98 Alexa ProRes4444 to Avid DNx36 with LUT bake-in and audio at faster than realtime (30-40 frames per second) on a MacBook Pro. Doing the same thing with Resolve Lite seems to average at about half this speed, 20-25 frames per second. I'll be using Scratch Lab on a tower next week so will report back with numbers. There is a bit of learning curve with this software but Assimilate has a great online knowledge base at http://www.assimilatesupport.com, video tutorials, and actual human beings you can talk with on the phone if you have a problem! Helpful people like Sherif Sadek, New York City "Assimilator"; point person for all things Scratch.

If you're in the east coast market and would like a Scratch demo, please contact Sherif - sherif@assimilateinc.com

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