[cyril conforti]

Yeah, Linux all the way. Don’t even think about SGI, dead, dead ,dead.

[cyril conforti]

With tether, if your Mac can read it, then it can be sent straight into StoneFS. So if you have already captured the P2 or any other material with FCP, then yes, it will go directly into the Smoke.

@forilou 23553 wrote:

If you drag your fcp project but the codec are not supported? Do you think it’s possible to conform the project into fcp (for P2 and non tape based project ) in SGI sequence and then ship it to Smoke?

[cyril conforti]

It just works.
Nothing to configure or install on the Stones.
Simple. Powerful.
Use clips on the Stone in any Mac application.
Transfer any Quicktime readable file, any codec directly into StoneFS.
Awesome interface.
Made by me drawing upon 12 years as flame artist.

Anyway, you should really goto the site and watch the tutorial videos and then download your free fully functional 15 day trial.

Contact me with any questions.

Alan

tether-
Transfer any Quicktime readable file into StoneFS, any codec.
Access to clips on Autodesk StoneFS in any Quicktime application.
Stream real-time, uncompressed NTSC, PAL & 720P over gigabit ethernet.
Embedded a secondary clip as alpha in tether clips.
Automatical transfer of all media referenced by FCP timeline XML.
No installation or configuration on Autodesk system neccessary.
StoneFS like file browser for familiar workflow.
Integrated clip viewer.
Compatible with Wiretap 1.7 & 2007.
Mac OSX 10.4.x (Universal Binary)

shrink-
Features-
Autodesk Wiretap access to Fire/Flame/Flint/Inferno/Smoke framestores.
Non-Destructive Frame Burnin (visible or within QT Player controller).
Non-Destructive Letterbox with any user input aspect ratio.
Ability to delay Frame Burnin and Letterbox to account for slates.
Crop video to a given aspect ratio.
Automatic Notification on completion of each encode via iChat or E-Mail.
Automatic Intelligent version naming.
Automatic Format and Pixel Ratio detection.
Bypass compression/scaling to quickly letterbox/frame burn clips for DVD.
No installation or configuration on server neccessary.
Intelligent use of mutli-cores/processors.
Intelligent caching of network files.
Use any 3rd party Quicktime codec installed on your Mac. (i.e. Sorenson Pro, Flip for Mac WMV, Apple ProRes..)
Mac OSX 10.4.x (Universal Binary)

[cyril conforti]

Also, with tether, you can drag your FCP XML directly into a library, and it will transfer all associated material directly into the smoke, .mov, aiff, mp3, image sequences, any thing that was in the timeline. You can then easily re-link the clips to the XML in Smoke. This is incredibly hand for P2 workflow or anything that is not traditionally tape based.

http://www.tether.it

[cyril conforti]

@michelle 23407 wrote:

Is there a limit on the quicktime filesize that the smoke will export? We’re working on a 3 minute piece, HD 1080p. The client wants a full size uncompressed QT for the deliverable. Has anyone done this before? Any problems? Advice? Will the smoke just export this like it exports any other 30 second piece?

Using a 3rd party wiretap app like shrink you can encode to any QT codec of any length directly from the Stone.

http://www.shrink.it

[cyril conforti]

(admin edit: This post is a reference to a competing product and not related to C>me [johnmont]. C’mon Alan….please be straight up here with your posts)

Fully functional trial available at http://www.tether.it

JfM wrote:

It looks very promising is there more info available then whats on the site?
We have a Smoke and a FCP and I’m interesting in your solution is there a trail version available?

Thanks

[/i]

[cyril conforti]

Varangian wrote:

looks really promising.
Any real world user reviews on this software?

This has been used in-house for production since the inception 1 year ago, and many purchased licenses even when it was still in beta form.

Taken from the flame-news group:

“I just ran the trial of Tether on my Intel MacBook. Open
Quicktime Player then you’re laughing. Really easy to use and quite
fast too. Well done guys!

Morten”

“We tested the software and found it to be elegant and reliable. We
have it in our budget for purchase shortly…”

“I must say that I’ve been very pleased with the support and eagerness to fix and
address issues as quickly as possible. Upgrades and bug fixes have been
coming in regularly and rather generously. I have not read much about how
to use (always too busy right!), but was able to work my way thru pretty
easily.

So all in all, so far so good for me.

Alain”

[cyril conforti]

you can do this with shrink and/or tether
http://www.shrink.it or http://www.tether.it

scottg wrote:

Hey Guys,

Apparently our cleaner system can’t export black magic clips from flame for use with Final Cut Pro and the Decklink cards. I’m pretty sure cleaner can be set up to work with blackmagic codecs, it seems to indicate so on the Decklink site.

Can anyone confirm or deny? Having trouble finding concrete information.

Thanks,
Scott.

[cyril conforti]

you can already do this with tether

[cyril conforti]

on OSX you can use shrink.quicktime or tether to grab clips directly from stonefs into quicktimes.

http://www.shrinkquicktime.com

[cyril conforti]

hey dave,
right now, we are adding 10 and 12 bit capabilities into shrink.quicktime and tether.

check it out, http://www.shrinkquicktime.com
i can notify you when we release a that version, should be in the next few days.

thanks,
alan

ddinisco wrote:

Has anyone had any luck importing 10bit Cineon files into Quicktime? We have downloaded a QT converter from a company called GlueTools, and although it does seems to work, there is a lot of banding on the gradients that are not present in the original Flame 10bit file. If I reimport that same Cineon file into Flame there is not banding. A difference matte between the Cineon and the orginal exported frame looks perfect on the Flame. One we import the Cineon into QT, it looks really bad. We are view QT via Blackmagic HD Extreme Declink card (component out)

The workflow is Flame to Quicktime to D5. We don’t have a D5 deck in-house, but a local dup facility does, so we are trying to simply send them a Final Cut project of our master.

Thanks in advance,
David

[cyril conforti]

We have Quicktime IN, also i encourage you to try shrink.quicktime and tether. they allow you to use clips that live on flame in any quicktime application in OSX.

http://www.shrinkquicktime.com

alan

[cyril conforti]

just want to point out that flame is now quite compatible when used in conjustion with tether.app on the mac.
check out http://www.shrinkquicktime.com for more info.

zolo wrote:

eltopo wrote:

I bet Shake’s replacement will be a great headache for AM&E. Apple makes its money from selling computers (and iPods I know) so they can create a realtime 2k compositor for 10K including hardware with 90% of the features Flame has plus some other things such as working with QT, final cut pro, photoshop on a single machine. Perhaps it will come as a whole package and you get an smoke+flame killer for 1/30 of the price…

I think Apple has made some great software, and they have clearly made huge inroads into the post market, but they’re still learning. In some ways, they don’t quite “get it” yet on the pro level. It usually takes them several revisions of an app before they really hit their stride and address all of the issues that should have been dealt with in rev.1. In Final Cut Pro, it’s media management. In Motion, it was floating point precision. In DVD Studio Pro, it’s video preview, etc. And in Quicktime, it’s ongoing gamma issues that owe more to Apple’s legacy in prepress applications than to the modern video postproduction environment.

While I would love to see a bona fide Flame killer come out of Apple, I don’t think it’s likely. If history is any indication, their first release of such a product would not yet be ready for primetime. By showing their hand too early, Apple would give the rest of the industry ample time to react before the next revision of their application emerged and became a real threat.

Apple tends to have a “we know best” attitude when it comes to development. I think that they should try to consult with post industry professionals to a much greater degree during the planning stages of developing new applications. Apple also is notorious for blindsiding developers by changing code in their OS and applications without advance notice. Quicktime is infamous for this. While ultimately it’s the end user’s responsibility to read the fine print and not upgrade anything in the middle of a big job, Apple could still communicate better with developers to allow them time to have patches ready BEFORE, not after, a new version of Quicktime comes out and breaks features in their applications. Apple’s notorious secrecy should not bite the hand that helps feed them.

[cyril conforti]

not since linux… you just need an nvidia quadro card and some simple modifications to the install scripts.

Keyser_Soze wrote:

alatteri wrote:

first off, an IBM 6221 is an official Flint hardware spec from about 2 years ago. secondly, i thought about the laptop thing. i have never seen it myself, but as long as it had a Quadro card and some type of SCSI, some simple modifications to the install scripts probably would work. then you would have to get discreet to issue you a license.

I always though flame was more fussy about what hardware it was running on but apparently not.

[cyril conforti]

first off, an IBM 6221 is an official Flint hardware spec from about 2 years ago. secondly, i thought about the laptop thing. i have never seen it myself, but as long as it had a Quadro card and some type of SCSI, some simple modifications to the install scripts probably would work. then you would have to get discreet to issue you a license.

Keyser_Soze wrote:

alatteri wrote:

no smart ass. it has a single core, dual Xeons. again, it is my Sparks development machine, so it doesnt have any video IO and you dont need a stone either, just some SCSI drives. I have one seagate 15K rpm, get over 70 megs/sec.

-k wrote:

is that the quad core machine with quadro gfx card with gen lock option all the necessary FC adptors, etc.? ~800$ you say? I doubt it. Plus you’d still need to pay the stone..
In any case I don’t know if they still offer that much discount anymore and I seriously doubt they will give it to single students. Does not make sense.

-k

So you say you can run Flame on this setup? That must be some kind of developers version or what? I’ve heard of a sparks developer demoing their stuff on a laptop running flame. Never seen it myself though. I always thought that was some kind of special developers version or a hack?
Would be seriously cool to have flame on my laptop but I can’t see that autodesk would want to have software like that floating around or anyone else that payed through their nose to get the real deal.

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