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Hello. I have access to Furnace and its Dirt Removal program for a short time only. I understand the basic Shake 4.0 methodology, especially as it applies to the Quick Paint option, using its nodes on a tree. But the Dirt Removal – especially as viewed in the downloaded pdf files – is absolutely insane. There is one basic graphic depiction of the viewer which shows no attachment to the basic file. There are six or seven attachments (each of which I know has a function) but it just looks like spaghetti. Does anyone understand this or can advise me elsewhere to look? Is there a book, is there anything else I can download? I’m so desperate now I need a tutor – or would pay someone just to get me started. Is there anyone in the Los Angeles area?
I’m trying to finish restoring the main and end titles on “The Day of the Triffids”, the 1963 movie, scanned into Cineon files from the original 35mm negative, and my deadline is passing. These areas are riddled with printed-in dirt, scratches and specks too numerous to paint out individually (there are 4,656 frames in the continuous main title alone. It takes four to five days to do 100 frames – too much work without the Furnace automated program).
Is anyone out there who can help me?
Many thanks.
You may be looking at the wrong DirtRemoval 🙂 Furnace has two – one has a red icon. You want the other one, with the grey-ish icon. It’s actually really easy to use – just click it and select a file sequence to clean up, then tweak the controls if needs be 🙂 There’s a good quick start section in the manual.
The one with the red icon has a million inputs and is a bit trickier, but it does the same thing.
Can’t help to much on the furnace side of things but it very well might make sense for you to take a look at Forge as opposed to Furnace for that kind of thing.
In a former life I set up a cluster of Xserves running forge with some home grown queue management code and was rolling full 2k and 4k features through the nodes with 75% success rate.
So the command from the script was essentially…
forge -mp 2 /path/to/source/framename.#.ext /path/to/render/framename.#.ext
where mp is number of processors to use and the rest was obvious…
Best,
ChrisForge might be better option, I agree with Chris. Much better suited to large scale dustbusting. You have furnace, so maybe give the Foundry a call and mull it over? They often do license rentals.
You should take a look at PFClean. It can run from the command line like Forge if need be, but you can then review or QC your fixes in the GUI. It can run in automatic, semiautomatic and manual modes and is completely non-destructive, which means after the automated processes have been completed, you can review the fixes and disable anything that may have been identified as dust or dirt (or any other type of fix for that matter), that in fact wasn’t. In addition to this, PFClean has a complete toolset to deal with all the problems you can potentially need to address when working on a film as old as Day of the Trifids. Dirt, Dust, Scratch, Warp, Color, Grain/Noise, Flicker, Stabilization, Tears – PFClean fixes them all. It can even completely rebuild entire frames that are missing or have been destroyed. It also has a full float paint system that kills Shake’s. PFClean is resolution independent, multi-threaded, 64-bit and runs on any OS.
Email me off thread if you would like some more info.
Of course the other options out there are MTI’s Correct DRS and DaVinci’s Revival. Personally I like MTI’s offerings but they are a little pricey, but it’s definitely the standard in a lot of places. PFClean has the price war won and is definitely the most modern software of the bunch, but I’ve found the automatic correction in MTI and Forge significantly better the last time I used it. That being said, at the last shop I built, I bought PFClean and Forge to have a healthy mix of automagic and manual tools.
Worth investigating all options before you buy.
Best,
ChrisGuys, this is all excellent information but the original post was eight months ago now 🙂
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