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SECTION: 6.20 is for some informaton about Workflow issues related to Digital Cinema. See also the program files in the current distribution of my programs, the other parts of this HTML documentation, and the current On-Line version of this Web site for information more specifically about my programs. Any comparisons of my programs or methods to some others is only given as a vague generality of my opinion and is not intended as a recommendation or reference to any particular products, always make your own evaluations and comparisons before taking any action.
Workflow for Acam dII (tm) Digital Cinema Camera is used to make a DI (Digital Intermediate, i.e. computer based replacement movie film lab work) for a movie that was shot with an electronic Bayer filter sensor Acam dII (tm) Digital Cinema Camera. The general system of unique steps for the Acam dII (tm) Digital Cinema camera workflow is given below. Steps after the sound has been transferred into WAV files, and the frame images have been converted from DNG files into 48bpp TIF frames is much the same as the Workflow for Movie Film Scans.
The unique steps used for Acam dII (tm) Digital Cinema camera workflow are:
Shoot DNG frame files in a Acam dII (tm) type camera.
If you have not already run DANCAD87.EXE (tm) and made a project directory folder structure with the Files Utilities Kinema Structure command, that gives you folders to put the TIF frames into, usually the I01 resolution level folder in each shot folder in the project structure, do so.
Download or Copy the DNG files to your computer's harddrive, maybe into the I01 level shot folders since the third party program Adobe Lightroom (tm) may be able to put the result files in the same folder as the source folders.
Run the third party program Adobe Lightroom (tm) etc. to convert the DNG frame files into 16bit 48bpp TIF frame files. I have not developed an automated Batch file generator yet to take care of the input and output file-paths or to rename the TIFF file extensions TIF so you may need to use the Windows (tm) file manager or a Batch file to take care of some of those details for now, if you are trying to work with Acam dII (tm) footage e-mail me to see how these details are shaking out.
You may need to use the Windows (tm) file manager to delete any TIF frames that are before the slate clap frame or Beep/Flash frame so that when renumbered the slate clap frame or Beep/Flash frame is numbered frame zero for each shot in the project folder structure.
You may need to use the renaming commands in DANCAD87.EXE (tm)'s Set file utilities sub-menu to alter the TIF filenames get 8 digit file name numbers in my Padded filename type, like 00000000.TIF, 00000001.TIF, 00000002.TIF, ... 00065523.TIF and such. In general do not use any of the color correction adjustments in the third party program Adobe Lightroom (tm) etc, but do select the output type to be un-compressed 16bit 48bpp TIF file type. You then need to adjust the output file folder directory to the correct shot folder in the project folder structure used by my programs so that you can avoid having to copy or move the TIF frames into the project structure later which could take a great deal of time. Use the best quality de-mosaic (de- Bayer) full size conversion in most cases. Once you have a plan for the setup of the third party program Adobe Lightroom (tm) etc. you can have it start conversion, on a single typical computer it might take hours to convert a few minutes of footage. The full path to a TIF frame in the project folder structure might be like C:/P0001/S0001/I01/00000000.TIF, where P stands for the Project number (each move you work on would have a unique number), S stands for the Shot in the project, in the Edit list you can move the shot pointers around bit the data stays in that folder even if you want the shots to play in a different order by way of moving the numbered pointers around, I stands for the Image resolution level, and then comes the padded numbered filename for the TIF frame. You would put each shot into a different Snnnn or Shot folder's I01 folder.
Depending on how things go I may work on some ways to improve and automate the input of frames from the Acam dII (tm) camera into my system, but for now you may be able to use Adobe Lightroom (tm) etc. de-mosaic (de-Bayer) software, or some other freeware or commercial graphics program that can convert the DNG frame files into 16bit 48bpp un-compressed TIF frame files to get something that my programs can open, load or read.
If you have recorded audio in the Acam dII along with the image frames, edit the WAV file of that audio so that the start of the WAV for each shot is the slate board clap or sync beep frame or at least so that the start of the WAV file corresponds to the 00000000.TIF frame for each shot. You can store the WAV for each shot in a track folder in the corresponding shot folder of the project structure. If you have recorded audio on an external WAV recorder you do the same type of thing, load the WAV file into a WAV editor like the third party program Magix (tm) and trim off the head and tail so that the first samples are the slate clap board slap or sync beep tone, then save the extracted audio samples that are the length of the shots image frames to a new WAV file and use that to make the audio frames for that shot in a Track using DANCAD87.EXE (tm).
Once you get the TIF frames into the project structure used by my programs you can make the PIX frame for playback and look at your footage, then do the Key frame Grading and look at what the final result with color correction will resemble, then you can save BMP samples with the View option in the Grading command to show the Director and DP etc. to get feedback on your color correction values. The details of those steps are gone into in the Film Scan Workflow page, see the next step for the link to that page.
This and the remainder of the Steps in the workflow are the same as for the Movie Film Scans workflow in SECTION: 6.20.10.0 so click that hyperlink and read the steps there. That is, once you have copied the 16bit 48bpp TIF frame files numbered from zero for the clap frame into the I01 folder for each shot you need in the project file folder structure the steps to edit shots, Grade the key frames, and mix the sound track are more or less the same no matter what the picture frame images were shot with.
Please see the other example workflows in SECTION: 6.2 for more information.
You can find more information about using my programs for Digital Cinema tasks by looking in the sections that have the text from the program and update documentation files corresponding to the documentation files in the ZIP archive files for the program executables from the Download sections. See SECTION: 3.80.0.0 for information about using DANCINEL.EXE (tm) in a DIY film recorder, see SECTION: 3.85.0.0 for information about using DANCINES.EXE (tm) in a DIY film scanner, and see SECTION: 3.3.7.34 for information about using DANCAD3D.EXE (tm) and DANCAD87.EXE v3.7N+(tm) for motion picture post production and DI (Digital Intermediate) to edit, color correct, and sound mix a feature motion picture. See also any later Update files relating to the programs, and look in the Downloads sub-sections for additional utilities and or programs that may be added that relate to Digital Cinema.