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Moving Hosts
iSophia has just moved hosts across the water to Media temple and a Grid Server. Things should all be up and running again minus a few glitches, mostly caused by an upgrade to wordpress which should be ironed out shortly!
ProRes Gamma shift fix.
There is nothing so frustrating as unexpected Gamma shifts. Round tripping between AE and FCP when using ProRes 4444 you may notice a gamma shift when bringing exports from After Effects into Final Cut Pro.
To avoid this gamma shift, you’ll need to edit your After Effects CS4 QuickTime gamma rules XML file. This will add the appropriate gamma tag to your QuickTime files on output.
The XML file is found here:
[hard drive]/users/[user name]/Library/Application Support/Adobe/Common/MediacoreQTGammaRulesCS4.xml
Add the following line to your MediaCoreQTGammaRulesCS4.xml file:
<QTCodec codec='ap4h' vendor='****' platform='mactel' direction='encode' versionlow='0x00000' versionhigh='*' gammatag='true' />
‘ap4h’ is the 4cc code for ProRes4444. You’ll notice that the XML file already includes entries for ‘apcn’ and ‘apch’. These are the 4cc codes for the older flavors of the ProRes codec.
Once you’ve made this change, you should be able to round-trip ProRes4444 media between Final Cut Pro and After Effects without experiencing a gamma shift.
More info here
Images from the summer & a few updates
This has been the first year in many that i have only taken a handful of images during the months of July/August, but i’ve eventually sorted through them with a small collection here. Also some subtle changes to the site are coming in; an increased width adjustment, less padding with the sidebar and a little more ‘horizontal space’ throughout. Much better integration of the slidshowpro flash gallery on the way soon too.
Welcome Back… Almost
Welcome back to the new isophia site. Finally a rather cleaner, easier website to both use and update, and one that for the first time is not a hash of bits and pieces of code jammed together in attempt to create a working website! There is work to do still, and content to add (always inportant), but that will all come over the next few days, and as footage from old work becomes available.
- The gallery is now backup and running (you need a recent version of flash to view this)
- The projects list is up, its just missing most of the content!
- Most of the main template changes are complete
- Most of the graphics are done apart from a few odds and ends.
- Quicktime elements have been added now (thanks to the very handy little ‘Quicktime Embed‘ Plugin – handy in minimising the use of flash on the site (still used for slideshow pro and the image gallery)
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