Phantom Cine Toolkit for MacOSX
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1. However we provide all of the default tone maps in case you wish to change the appearance of the image Selecting any of the presets will override the default that is saved into the file Info Tab In the Info tab you can click on links to the Glue Tools website as well as direct links to the Support FAQ pages and the Registration pages If you wish to purchase a license for the Phantom Cine Package visit www gluetools com purchase page and follow the instructions there O PhantomCine Cr show lt Glue Tools Phantom Cine Toolkit v4 0 2882 Playback amp Render Color Processing Updates Click the button to see if there is any new updates Check Now Support FAQs Technical Help can be found on the support section of the Support Glue Tools Website Please email support with your questions if you can t find the answers to your questions Delete Prefs Problems with your settings Click on the Delete Now Delete Now button to remove your existing preferences This will reset the Phantom Cine Toolkit back to it s default settings Company Glue Tools LLC License Holder Robert Monaghan License Type Base License Valid Ethernet ID e 8 06 88 cb 37 54 License Code XXXXX XXXXX XXXXX XXXXX 15 Glue Tools LLC Phantom Cine Toolkit for MacOSX Adobe After Effects Reference Adobe After Effects and Phantom Cine files Adobe s After Effects CS5 and later now provides QuickTime compatibility with Thi2. 10 gt Name amp Extension gt Comments gt Open with Y Preview gt Sharing amp Permissions Glue Tools LLC Phantom Cine Toolkit for MacOSX General Reference Bayer Pattern Traditionally you would assume that each pixel is a combination of Red Green and Blue channels to make each pixel With single sensor digital cameras each pixel is in fact a single color The Bayer Pattern was invented by Dr Bryce E Bayer at Kodak who came up with the bayer pattern color filter array He came up with the way each color is arranged on the camera sensor see attached graphic Each line on the sensor contains alternating pixels of Green and Red and the next line below alternates Blue and Green By using a de bayer algorithm a proper RGB image can be reconstructed Different types of de bayer algorithms will reproduce different levels of image quality Typically fast de bayer algorithms are of a poor quality Slow algorithms are typically much better Image courtesy of Wikipedia Here are examples of some de bayer algorithms On the left is a Raw Bayer Pattern In the centre is a fast Nearest Neighbour de bayer pattern and on the right a slower Pixel Grouping de bayer pattern As you can see there will be a substantial quality difference depending upon the de bayer algorithm you choose Our best de bayer mode is also our slowest GT Hybid A will render a very ni
3. Glue Tools LLC Phantom Cine Toolkit for MacOSX Phantom Cine Toolkit for MacOSX Glue Tools LLC Phantom Cine Toolkit for MacOSX Phantom Miro Phantom Flex4K Phantom Flex Phantom HD Phantom 65 Phantom Flex V Series are trademarks of Vision Research Inc Adobe After Effects After Effects CS5 are trademarks of Adobe Systems Inc QuickTime Final Cut Pro Final Cut Studio FCPX are trademarks of Apple Inc Copyright 2007 2014 Glue Tools LLC Glue Tools LLC P O Box 24124 Santa Barbara CA 93121 United States Tel 1 805 456 7997 Email support gluetools com http www gluetools com Glue Tools LLC Phantom Cine Toolkit for MacOSX System Requirements 6 Minimum Hardware and Software Configuration 6 Recommended Hardware and Software Configuration Playback 6 Compatible Applications 6 Playback Requirements 6 Overview 7 QuickTime Components 7 System Preferences 7 Final Cut Pro Plugins 7 Installation and Demo Mode 8 Installation 8 Demo Restrictions 8 Licensing 9 License Activation 9 Revoking De authorizing a License 9 Quick Start Guide 10 Important Notes about Phantom Cine File Format 10 File Naming Convention 10 Exporting a New Movie from QuickTime Player 7 10 QuickTime Player X Do not use for now 10 Phantom Cine Toolkit Reference 11 Preference Pane 11 Playback amp Render 11 Color Processing 13 Info Tab 15 Adobe After Eff
4. K Miro Phantom Flex HD Gold and Phantom 65 Movies will require machines with better performance It is suggested that an OpenCL Compatible GPU is used Playback of Phantom Flex4K Miro Phantom Flex Phantom HD movies will also require systems with high speed storage At minimum a dedicated eSATA RAID storage array Thunderbolt or SAS Storage array or 4G b based directly attached Fiber Channel storage is suggested Systems with SSD based drives should be fine if the footage is smaller than 2K Full Res Flex or Flex4K will likely need faster storage Glue Tools LLC Phantom Cine Toolkit for MacOSX Overview QuickTime Components The Phantom Cine QuickTime Components will perform all of the importing playback de bayer white balancing and color correction functions to the movie All applications that use Apple s QuickTime libraries can access all aspects of the Phantom Cine files Applications ranging from Avid Media Composer Final Cut Pro X right down to iMovie can import and play these files without any sort of conversion or preprocessing steps There are no direct controls or programs to launch in order to use these components Your QuickTime enabled applications will simply recognize the Cine movie files as another movie format that can be used Your Macintosh will also be aware of the files much the same way QuickTime movies are already available to the system Simply single clicking on a Phantom Cine file in Fi
5. alance from Camera which takes the white balance values embedded inside the Phantom Cine file The other options are None disabling any white balance processing that might be needed White Balance from Values which allows you to manually enter values into the WB Red WB Green and WB Blue fields and White Point Value which allows you to specify a Color Temperature in Degrees Kelvin ColorSpace This pop up menu is used to choose how to reproduce the color of the image You are provided with the choices of using Camera Rec709 XYZ Color Disable Camera XYZ Color or XYZ Matrix from File Camera Rec709 XYZ Color mode uses a set of algorithms developed by Vision Research to adjust the chromaticity for each camera model As each model of camera uses a different sensor each model will capture color in a slightly different way This difference is measured and the appropriate set of mathematics can be used to correct for that difference The resulting image is a Rec709 color space which is widely used by the entertainment industry Disable Camera XYZ Color mode can be selected so that no color correction is done to the imagery The raw sensor data is displayed just as it was captured by the camera XYZ Corrected Color from File mode lets you the user to develop your own XYZ table to correct for sensor differences A sample file is included with this package to show you how set up your own color correction For
6. antom Cine QuickTime Components If you want to change the Glue Toos White balance settings use a LOG90 gamma curve or enable Time Code settings PhantomCine you Can do it with the System Preferences Panel Let s begin by opening the System Preferences and clicking on the Glue Tools Phantom Cine preference icon eoc PhantomCine gt show a Glue Tools Phantom Cine Toolkit 4 0 2882 Color Processing Info Playback amp Time Code Options Video Playback Rate Automatic Override Source Time Code Start Time 00 00 00 00 Reset Time Code TC Reel Name From Header CINEO Reset Phantom Cine Rendering Options Image Debayer Quality Pixel Grouping Color Artifact Suppression Level 0 None Higher Number reduces performance Aspect Ratio None l Orientation Vertical Flip Horizontal Flip Enable OpenCL GPU Quadro 4000 Reset Playback amp Render You will notice that the Presets Tab is divided into two sections A Playback amp Time Code Options section and a Phantom Cine Rendering Options section Playback amp Time Code Options Video Playback Rate This lets you set the frame rate for video playback The default is Automatic which uses the playback frame rate that is stored inside the Cine file header You can choose to use a different frame rate by selecting one of the frame rates from the popup menu This will override the default and cause applic
7. ations to use the value that you choose Override Source Time Code When enabled you can alter any of the Time Code settings Many of the settings are disabled until you enable this check box When it is disabled Time Code is automatically generated using the high speed timestamps that are stored inside the Cine file 11 Glue Tools LLC Phantom Cine Toolkit for MacOSX Start Time When enabled you can enter in your own Time of Day start time You can click on the Reset Time Code button to bring it back to 00 00 00 00 TC Reel Name The TC Source Labeling Pop up menu determines how QuickTime identifies the Time Code track You can type in your own text into this box or use one of a number preset options in the menu Phantom Cine Rendering Options Image Debayer Quality This pop up menu is used to select the type of de bayer algorithm to be used to interpolate the sensor data Different debayer modes will concentrate on a specific look when creating an image Some modes will simply average the sensor pixel values to create a set of RGB values Other debayer algorithms are much more elaborate carefully examining a range of pixels to best handle gradients hard edges and color changes Naturally the more elaborate the debayer algorithm the more CPU speed is needed by the software On slower machines debayer algorithms such as GT Hybrid A will significantly impact playback However because of the excellent image qualit
8. ce image However playback is probably not possible on current 8 core systems Pixel Grouping is the highest quality de bayer algorithm which will permit playback Naturally as computers improve we will take advantage of them to increase performance SMPTE Time Code and Phantom Cine footage Time Code is an integral part of tracking and editing a project For Film and Broadcast Time Code is an essential tool for identifying a specific frame in a specific piece of footage Currently the system that is used is known as SMPTE 12M or simply SMPTE Time Code This time code system is designed to work with the common frame rates used for film and video Typically this means anywhere from 23 976 FPS up to 30 FPS SMPTE Time Code will not track frames faster than 30 FPS But Hey My Phantom footage is 500 FPS This is where the difficulty lies SMPTE is not able to work with higher frame rates at all To get around this we came up with a way to convert the faster frame rates to a slower frame rate First is isn t likely that the high speed footage will be played at real time ie You won t playback at 500fps So we don t need to invent a 500fps SMPTE Time Code Instead we playback at 24 25 or 30 fps Because of this we can use the SMPTE Time Code system and artificially create a start time Vision Research has come up with a standard way to calculate a SMPTE Time Code from the high speed time code To make SMTPE Time Code easier t
9. ects Reference 16 Adobe After Effects and Phantom Cine files 16 Final Cut Studio Reference 17 Glue Tools LLC Phantom Cine Toolkit for MacOSX Final Cut Pro X Motion 5 Compressor 4 17 Final Cut Studio 3 Final Cut Pro 7 Phantom Cine Import Plugin 17 MacOSX Reference 19 Macintosh Finder Get Info 19 Spotlight 19 General Reference 20 Bayer Pattern 20 SMPTE Time Code and Phantom Cine footage 20 Glue Tools LLC Phantom Cine Toolkit for MacOSX Glue Tools LLC Phantom Cine Toolkit for MacOSX System Requirements Minimum Hardware and Software Configuration e Intel Macintosh e Mac OS X 10 7 5 e QuickTime 7 6 6 or later e 1280 x 1024 display Recommended Hardware and Software Configuration Playback e Intel Macintosh e OpenCL Compatible GPU e MacOSX 10 8 x or later e QuickTime 7 6 6 or later e 4 Gigabytes of RAM or more e 1920 x 1200 displays e High Speed storage such as a Thunderbolt2 SAS RAID SATA2 RAID or SAN Compatible Applications e Adobe After Effects CS 5 and later e Final Cut Pro 7 and Compressor 3 5 e Compressor 4 0 e And most QuickTime compatible applications Playback Requirements Vision Research s Phantom Cine files contain uncompressed raw sensor data from their cameras As a result Cine movies often range from Megabytes to Gigabytes in size Movies that were created by these cameras with Standard Def resolutions play with ease on many systems and possibly even on laptops Phantom Flex4
10. ed Import Panel This panel can easily be accessed by selecting the File gt Import menu In this menu you will see a new item Glue Tools Phantom Cine Import Final Cut Pro ooo Edit View Mark Modify Sequence Effects Tools Window Help New gt Viewer Slug New Project TN Open 0 ae HY BY Close Window W EM 00 00 10 00 Glue Tools Cineon Sequence Import Glue Tools DPX Sequence Import Glue Tools Phantom Cine Import XML Log and Transfer 38 Reconnect Media Print to Video a Close Tab AW a a Close Clip a a a Save All a a a a Import a a a Export a Send To a ERIE a Glue Tools ARRI Alexa LogC ProRes Import a Glue Tools ARRIRAW Import a Log and Capture 8 a a a a a a a s 17 Glue Tools LLC The Phantom Cine Import panel for Final Cut Pro provides most of the same controls that the Phantom Cine Preference Pane does However the panel adds the ability to extract metadata right out of the Phantom Cine file and place the information right into your FCP project Shot notes color information and other information is extracted and available in the XML that FCP generates Final Cut Pro Sequence Presets Final Cut Pro provides a set of Sequence Presets which allows you to quickly configure your system for different editing scenarios Included with the package is a set of predefined Sequence Presets T
11. hese are generic presets for standard frame rates and image sizes As with the other Sequence Presets that Apple provides you can duplicate and customize these to suit your needs Phantom Cine Toolkit for MacOSX 20 0 Select a Phantom Cine File FAVORITES yy Applications E Desktop J Development ha Documents Final Cut Events Final Cut Projects Downloads NIUVIES J Music Si a F8 Bro Pictures F8 cine bob F9 Bro DEVICES Video Playback Rate Start Time k TC Reel Name Calculation Method ARRI_TestFootage fy BarskyShoot_220ct2011 BMW_3D__ Cinel cine car2 cine CineMag5 cine CineMag6 cine CineMag9 cine Coke and ice Prague cine DMAGOO1_ 720P mov adband High mp4 yadband High mp4 Y Preview Name CineMag10 cine Kind DocumentType Size 59 9 MB on disk Created 3 6 12 10 42 AM Modified 3 6 12 10 42 AM Last opened 3 6 12 11 12 AM Dimensions 1280 x 720 Duration 00 00 Render Color Processing Automatic _ Override Source Time Code 0 Reset Time Code From Header soj CINEO1 Vision Research 3 Open Cancel Also included with these Sequence Presets is a set of AJA Kona 3 3G specific Sequence Presets These presets allow you to preview your footage out though the Kona 3 hardware 18 Glue Tools LLC MacOSX Reference Macintosh Finder Get Info Get Info Command I in the Finder allows you to view the details of any Phantom Cine file as we
12. hing QuickTime needs to work with Phantom Cine files is installed into the Operating System Demo Restrictions If no license is purchased the Phantom Cine Images are drawn and exported with a large colored bar through the center of the image When the license is purchased the bar will disappear Time Code will report back a start time of 09 09 09 00 and the frame rate will be fixed at 24 FPS The Final Cut Pro Panels will also have limitations The frame ranges will be limited from 888 to 999 the file name will be forced to a single filename and most of the controls will have no effect Once a license has been installed all features will work as expected Glue Tools LLC Phantom Cine Toolkit for MacOSX Licensing License Activation Licensing must be done while connected to the Internet If you do not have an internet connection you will not be able to activate the license In many cases any type of network connection will get you up and running Once activated you will not be required to have a network connection unless you want to move the license to another Macintosh Thank You for trying our software This package is currently in Demo Mode This means that there will be limitations To activate the full package you will need to obtain a license code from our site www gluetools com Or you can contact us at sales gluetools com for further assistance Once you have the license you can Cut amp Paste the code into the License C
13. ll Much like the Spotlight window you can get info about a single file that you happen to click on The Get Info panel will display Phantom Cine specific information in the header of the selected files This is an excellent diagnostic tool when working with the Phantom Cine file format Spotlight Phantom Cine files can be indexed and searched by Spotlight Simply typing in a relevant bit of text into the Spotlight text field will search all of the Phantom Cine metadata on your system and locate the associated frames For instance if you have some notes saved inside the Description field of the Cine file you can search for a keyword and have the movie located 19 Phantom Cine Toolkit for MacOSX O O laj 4K 743 CS4 cine Info 4K 743 CS4 cine 11 8 MB Modified Today 2 49 PM Add Tags Y General Kind Phantom Cine Movie Size 11 807 294 bytes 11 8 MB on disk Where Volumes BACKUP 3TB U Intl Created January 15 2014 at 4 52 PM Modified Today 2 49 PM _ Stationery pad Locked Y More Info Camera Version Phantom Flex4K Real Bitdepth 10 Packed Cine Yes Frame Rate 100 Time Code 11 04 59 12 at 30 00 fps Frame Count 1 Shutter ns 9 000 000 Shutter Angle 324 Software Version 743 Firmware Version 12 146 Color Version PH16 Gamma 2 22 Toe 1 Flare 0 White Point 3988 1 K WPCC 24 6257 Dimensions 4096 x 2304 Codecs Phantom Cine Movie Duration 00 00 Bits per sample
14. more information on how to create your own XYZ Color Correction go to the Glue Tools support website and place a support request You will be contacted with more information on this subject Once you have created your XYZ Color Correction Matrix you can select the file with Color Matrix field Click on the Browse button 13 Glue Tools LLC Phantom Cine Toolkit for MacOSX to locate your file Once it is selected the Phantom Cine components will use the file to perform the correction For those users that wish to adjust the color correction matrix themselves you can create an XML file with the appropriate settings The layout of such a file is as follows lt xml version 1 0 encoding UTF 8 gt lt DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC Apple Computer DTD PLIST 1 0 EN http www apple com DTDs PropertyList 1 0 dtd gt lt plist version 1 0 gt lt dict gt lt key gt CineColorMatrix lt key gt lt array gt lt real gt 1 0 lt real gt lt real gt 1 0 lt real gt lt real gt 1 0 lt real gt lt real gt 1 0 lt real gt lt real gt 1 0 lt real gt lt real gt 1 0 lt real gt lt real gt 1 0 lt real gt lt real gt 1 0 lt real gt lt real gt 1 0 lt real gt lt array gt lt dict gt lt plist gt This file describes the matrix that can be applied to your Cine movie The file can be named anything you want It is suggested that you use the xml file extension The only section that should be altered is the
15. nder allows you to see a thumbnail of the image for instance System Preferences The Glue Tools PhantomCine preference pane is where you pre set all of the global settings that the components use These settings include white balance modes de bayer algorithms and color conversions The panel also handles licensing information Time Code support and more Final Cut Pro Plugins With a purchased license Final Cut Pro users will see the Final Cut Pro plugin in the File gt Import menu The plugin will be labeled Glue Tools Phantom Cine Sequence Import You will select this menu item to import a Phantom Cine movie into FCP as if it were a regular QuickTime movie clip Spotlight Plugins The Spotlight Plugins enable your system to see inside the Phantom Cine header The Finder can extract specific information from the Phantom Cine files when it does a Get Info You can search for camera models encoding characteristics or even shot notes from the user modifiable description field from the Finder s Spotlight panel Simple shell scripts can also take advantage of the spotlight services and sift through frames for specific data Glue Tools LLC Phantom Cine Toolkit for MacOSX Installation and Demo Mode Installation Installation is performed by double clicking on the installer package and selecting the boot disk that you want to install the components onto Once installed you will need to reboot your machine Everyt
16. nsion This is important as the Phantom Cine Toolkit will only open files with a cine extension Files with a cin extension will be confused with the Cineon file format So if you are using older Phantom Camera software from Vision Research check to see that the extension is set properly Exporting a New Movie from QuickTime Player 7 For the ease of portability with other users you can quickly and easily convert a Phantom Cine Movie to any other QuickTime Movie format You can do this by opening a Phantom Cine Movie using QuickTime Player 7 and then selecting the File gt Export Select your codec location and filename as you would with any other movie and start the export It is that easy QuickTime Player X Do not use for now QuickTime Player X will also export a MOV file However these files are limited to H264 Also on many systems a Red bar will be rendered through the image At this time we do not recommend using this package until we are able to resolve the licensing issue 10 Glue Tools LLC Phantom Cine Toolkit for MacOSX Phantom Cine Toolkit Reference This package consists of a number of parts that make up the whole the Phantom Cine QuickTime components a System Preferences Pane a QuickLook Plugin and a Spotlight Plugin Each of these pieces are briefly described in turn Preference Pane The Glue Tools Phantom Cine Preferences Pane is where you can change the lt gt settings used by Ph
17. numbers between the lt real gt lt real gt tags The values are positioned in this order red red red green red blue green red green green green blue blue red blue green blue blue Feel free to submit your own matrix creations to our support site Exposure Index This popup menu will let you specify an Exposure Index for your rendered image The default is Manual Settings in which you can independently select aGamma and Toe Value Otherwise you can specify a specific ASA value from the popup menu By selecting an ASA Gamma and Toe are disabled To re enable Gamma and Toe you will need to select Manual Settings once again Glue Tools LLC Phantom Cine Toolkit for MacOSX Transfer This popup menu will let you specify the gamma for the rendered image The default is to use the value that is set in the Cine file header You can choose to use your own Gamma value or simply remove the gamma with a Linear setting This menu is disabled if you select a preset Exposure Index value Toe Value This popup menu will let you specify the toe for the rendered image The default is 1 0 Selecting a lower value you are able to lighten the shadows to reveal more detail Tone Map Mode Tone Maps can be applied to alter the way the image looks The Tone Map can change the contrast of the image to make the image brighter or darker The Phantom Camera embeds the tone map into the Phantom Cine header
18. o use Vision Research has now embedded the Time Code into the Cine Header But only if the most recent version of PCC or Glue Tools S ance for Mac is used to save the file If PCC v2 1 or older is used the Time Code may not be available Also if the Camera or CineStation has an really old firmware Time Code will not be available either even if the most recent version of PCC or Seance is used Feel free to post a support ticket on the http support gluetools com website to have any questions answered 20 Glue Tools LLC Phantom Cine Toolkit for MacOSX Technical Support Support for these tools can be obtained by posting support question at http support gluetools com Online support also includes an Knowledge base section The Knowledge base is a great place to to find commonly asked questions questions Telephone Support is available Monday to Friday 9AM to 5PM PST PDT Questions regarding XYZ Matrices for specific Vision Research cameras should be directed to Vision Research s technical support Visit http www visionresearch com for more information 21
19. ode fields below This will then let you activate over the internet License Code Clear Activate To activate the license you will need the Registration Code that was emailed to you Open the System Preferences and click on the PhantomCine preference pane Cut amp Paste your license code into the fields provided Once you click on the Activate button the software will verify the license with our server and create a permanent license for you Until you decide to move the license this will be the only time that the internet is used for licensing Revoking De authorizing a License Company Glue Tools LLC License Holder Robert Monaghan License Type Base License Valid Ethernet ID 8 06 88 cb 37 54 License Code XXXXX XXXXX XXXXX XXXXX If you need to move a license to another machine you can use the Revoke button to deactivate the license from the machine that you are on Just as you had done with the license activation Open the System Preferences gt PhantomCine preference pane Open the Info tab and click on the Revoke button Once deactivated the license will be free so that another machine can be used Glue Tools LLC Phantom Cine Toolkit for MacOSX Quick Start Guide Important Notes about Phantom Cine File Format Vision Research has been in business for a number of years building high speed digital cameras As time has gone on the camera capabilities have greatly improved As a result each generation
20. of camera has required the Cine file format to expand and change Vision Research s more modern cameras create Cine movies that have a different image payload from the cameras that the company originally built several years ago As a result some legacy cameras create a movie file that is not supported with this software The Phantom Cine Toolkit currently supports the following cameras Phantom Flex K Phantom Flex Miro M or LC series Phantom 65 Phantom HD Phantom Flex v12 v10 v9x Miro series and v7x cameras Earlier camera models are not supported When the Phantom Cine Toolkit is installed you can do a Get Info on Cine file and see which camera model created the Cine file File Naming Convention Along with the fact that some cameras have a long life span the software that the cameras uses has also gone though a few changes One change that is important to this package is the way that the files are named Originally the software for these cameras used DOS and early versions of Microsoft Windows Because of this files could only have a three character file extension As a result the camera software would create files with an extension cin such as my movie cin This conflicted with another widely used file format in the Motion Picture Industry the Cineon file from Kodak To make life easier Vision Research has now changed the extension of the files so that they are created with the new cine exte
21. rd Party QuickTime components You can select the Import gt File menu to import a Cine file Be sure that you Enable QuickTime if you are not able to select cine movie files That s it You should now be able to import the Phantom Cine footage into your After Effects Project When working with larger projects it is recommended that you lower the debayer quality to help with the responsiveness of the application When it is time to render a high quality Movie file be sure to set the debayer quality to GT Hybrid A for maximum results Glue Tools LLC Phantom Cine Toolkit for MacOSX Final Cut Studio Reference Final Cut Pro X Motion 5 Compressor 4 At the time this manual was released FCPX and Motion are NOT compatible with Cine files However In the future it is expected that Final Cut Pro X and Motion 5 should simply just work Compressor 4 is 100 compatible with the Phantom Cine Toolkit It automatically recognizes the Phantom Cine QuickTime component and provides you with full compatibility To use a Cine file with Compressor you can simply drop the cine file into Compressor s Batch Window add some presets and then a destination At that point you simply click on the Submit button to render a Phantom Cine into the movie format that you selected Final Cut Studio 3 Final Cut Pro 7 Phantom Cine Import Plugin Final Cut Pro 7 users can import Phantom Cine footage with a dedicat
22. rendering method if available In many cases the performance of the GPU OpenCL is far superior than the Glue Tools mode for this type of calculation If the Phantom Cine Toolkit is installed on a system where there isn t a Support graphics card or on an older system where the GPU isn t very fast you can choose a CPU based rendering mode Note Not all versions of MacOSX are able to support this rendering system We really recommend a minimum system of MacOSX 10 7 5 as this it has excellent support for the GPU 12 Glue Tools LLC Phantom Cine Toolkit for MacOSX Color Processing This tab provides the ability to change the way the color will be processed inside the Phantom Cine Toolkit These settings are Global meaning that every Cine loaded will be affected by these settings O PhantomCine lt gt show an Q Glue Tools Phantom Cine Toolkit v4 0 2882 Playback amp Render Color Processing Options White Balance White Balance from Cine File WB Red l WB Green 1 WB Blue White Point Value M G Tint Value Color Space Rec709 XYZ Color XYZ Matrix File None Browse Exposure Index Manual Settings Transfer Video Gamma from Cine File Toe Value s 1 Tone Map Automatic from Cine File NOTE Not all settings work with older camera models Reset White Balance This pop up menu is used to actively change the way that the white balance works The default is White B
23. y this type of algorithm is ideal when exporting to a QuickTime movie format Debayer performance is sorted by their order in the menu The top mode menu item Raw Sensor Data Mode is the fastest as no de bayer algorithm is being applied Nearest Neighbor Bilinear Interpolation are the next fastest modes The slowest yet most accurate is GT Hybrid A which is at the bottom of the menu To see how each debayer affects the image refer to the Bayer Pattern section at the end of the this manual Color Artifact Suppression Level This setting adds additional Image Processing to help reduce the number of color artifacts that your image may have The default is O which is none The higher the number the more work is done to the image This also reduces playback performance It is best used when rendering to an MOV file rather than playback Aspect Ratio This setting will let you alter the aspect ratio of the image based upon presets or your own aspect ratio value The ratio changes the height of the image based upon the value you enter and the width of the image Orientation Vertical Flip Horizontal Flip Enabling or disabling each of these checkboxes will cause the image to be flipped vertically or horizontally Enable OpenCL GPU CPU Rendering This popup menu lists all of the available rendering options on your computer You can choose from the default Glue Tools engine or a high speed GPU OpenCL
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