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#1
Hi everybody,

I'd like to post here the workflow I'm planning to use for our next production. It's a trailer for a crowdfunding campaign we are going to launch in a few months: we shot a couple of weeks ago with 5Dm3 and Magic Lantern, and now I'm trying to find the best way to deliver the best product possible.
I read almost every discussion in this session, I hope I didn't miss anything critical. Please take a look, and any comment is welcome!

PRODUCTION
- backup of CF card
- RAW to DNG conversion, with Batchelor 3.0 alpha3 (with raw2dng)
- import DNG in Resolve, applying simple metadata (shot, reel number)
- export dailies (QuickTime DNxHD) for checking shots on set, and later to choose good takes

POST-PRODUCTION
- once good takes are chosen, export proxies (QuickTime RGB 8bit non-compressed) from Resolve
- editing in Premiere CC, with proxies
- roundtrip to Resolve: import XML from Premiere CC
- white balance in Resolve
- VFX and CGI work
- compositing on original dng sequences (mainly After Effects CC)
- import VFX shots into Resolve
- color correction and grading
- export QuickTime RGB 10bit non-compressed from Resolve
- import into Premiere CC: noise reduction (Neat Video plugin), grain
- crop and 2K upscaling if needed, titles
- export final video


What do you think? Anything wrong in your opinion?

I still have to test the importing of VFX shots into Resolve: I still don't know which file format is the best (probably 16bit tiff), and I'm pretty sure I'll have some timecode shifts due to compositing application.
And I'm not sure how to proceed for the final export from Resolve: using the same XML to re-import everything in Premiere, or generate a new EDL in Resolve? I'll find out :)

Thanks for reading

Erik
#2
General Help Q&A / Corrupted clip. Anything I can try?
October 18, 2013, 07:46:22 PM
Hi everybody,

Last week we had a great and quite long shooting with 5Dm3+ML: everything was great, on 590 clips only few errors.
Unfortunately one of the only 2 corrupted clips is quite important, so I would like to ask if I can do anything to be 100% sure the file is not usable.

I'm using Batchelor with raw2dng to convert the raw files, and when it starts converting that clip I see "converting frame 1 of -613843513" and then it starts saving frames of 1.45GB each. Of course I can't open these files in any software.
My suspect is that the problem should be in the header: since the file is quite similar in size to the other takes, and I can have the jpg thumbnail in Batchelor too ,I guess the data are fine, at least some frames.

Do you think it's possible to "rewrite" or fix in some way the header?
#3
Hi everybody,

I am new in the forum, and first of all I'd like to thank all you crazy developers for this amazing piece of software you are working on.
We've been testing ML since a couple of months ago, both on 5Dm2 and 5Dm3, and the results are simply great.

Everything for me is working properly except for the Movie Logging feature: I was testing it on the 5Dm3 few days ago but I can't find the log files anywhere. Of course the option was on, and everything else was working well.

ML version is 2.3 (22nd august 2013), Canon firmware is 1.1.3
ML is installed on a SD card, while recording on a CF card.

Any idea?
Thanks

Erik Caretta