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Online Session hosted by Mazze Aderhold Tuesday, November 3rd 10am Los Angeles | 1pm New York | 7pm Berlin Register here: https://www.assimilateinc.com/join-webinar/ What is this online event about? Our Creative Boost Program is coming to an end – that calls for a wrap party! And with that, many people are wondering how things will continue. Well – tune in and be first to know 😉 . Special guest for this online meet-up is Lisa Konecny of ((RADAR)) DIT. For over 12 months she was secretly working on the second Borat movie with Sacha Baron Cohen, providing rushes and clip reports for post – having SCRATCH as her wingman. Lisa will go over the challenges of a highly unusual shoot with over 73 cameras, no slates for audio syncing and an unpredictable production schedule – with some incredible stories to tell! If you have something great to share about a project you did on SCRATCH – feel free to reach out and become an active part of our wrap party! The event is free for all attendees. The content is designed for DITs, data wranglers, colorists and finishing artists. We will also record the event for you to watch later. Please send your questions, comments and feedback to: info@assimilateinc.com Cheers, Mazze

Hi everyone, In this online session, Leandro Marini of Imperial Creative will go over the problems of modern DI-workflows and how to solve them by minimizing the back and forth with clients utilizing SCRATCH’s biggest strengths: Realtime color & comp, remote & live streaming and integration of other tools right into the workflow. Leandro will show a recent project, on which he approached color and vfx finishing simultaneously in realtime via remote, from concept art through the finished sequence. This webinar will not be SCRATCH-only – Leandro will also show how to integrate After Effects efficiently into the workflow to support SCRATCH in advanced vfx workflows, bringing the strength of both tools together into the finished film. Cheers, Mazze

And the recording is online, friends: Cheers, Mazze

Hi friends, here's a quick video on how to set up Nobe OmniScope with SCRATCH (and all other Assimilate products) and also a quick overview of its features and how to use it 🙂 . Also, you can get 15% OFF by using coupon code SCRATCHOSCOPE at the checkout over at www.timeinpixels.com! Cheers, Mazze

Hi Johan, please connect with support on this. There were some changes for ACES in the last couple of builds. Could even be that all you have to do is to update to the latest build. Cheers, Mazze

Hi Johan, please connect with support on this. There were some changes for ACES in the last couple of builds. Could even be that all you have to do is to update to the latest build. Cheers, Mazze

Hi peoples, I've written a little article on refurbishing Element panels by either foiling them, lacquering them, or sandblasting and anodizing them. If you have questions, or want me to do it for you, feel free to reach out: https://www.angry-face.com/refurbish-tangent-element/ Cheers, Mazze

Online Session hosted by Mazze Aderhold Wednesday, September 16th 10am Los Angeles | 1pm New York | 7pm Berlin Register here: https://www.assimilateinc.com/join-webinar/ What is this online event about? In this online session, Leandro Marini of Imperial Creative will go over the problems of modern DI-workflows and how to solve them by minimizing the back and forth with clients utilizing SCRATCH’s biggest strengths: Realtime color & comp, remote & live streaming and integration of other tools right into the workflow. Leandro will show a recent project, on which he approached color and vfx finishing simultaneously in realtime via remote, from concept art through the finished sequence. This webinar will not be SCRATCH-only – Leandro will also show how to integrate After Effects efficiently into the workflow to support SCRATCH in advanced vfx workflows, bringing the strength of both tools together into the finished film. The event is free for all attendees. The content is designed for colorists and finishing artists. We will also record the event for you to watch later. Please send your questions, comments and feedback to: info@assimilateinc.com See you all there, folks! Best, Mazze

Such nice rings you got there on your Element 😜 .

Hi everyone, in this tutorial we're going over how to create an advanced key in SCRATCH, using multiple qualifiers, layers and blendmodes. Also we'll show how to use and navigate the node tree in SCRATCH. Enjoy 🙂 . Cheers, Mazze

Hi folks, this is a quick run-through for those, that are particularly interested in creating dailies, or new online masters from ProRes RAW material. As an added bonus, I appended the intro video about white balance controls below 😉 . Cheers, Mazze

Hi everyone, in this online session we will show you how to use Assimilate Live Assist to boost your on-set workflow and adapt to an era of social distancing and fewer bodies on the set. Whether it’s live grading, live green screen replacement, multi-cam recording & playback or using Live Assist as a Media-hub to live-stream out multiple camera feeds, or instant-review footage and grades from any phone, tablet or laptop near-set. We will also have Stefan King from Difference Live Streaming, showing us the latest developments of their private low-latency streaming platform, and how to use it with Live Assist. Live Assist On-Set Workflow: • Example setup with 2 cameras • Live grading both camera feeds • Live effects & green screen replacement • (auto-) recording and playback of camera feeds • Set up Multi-Cam Live Stream from Live Assist • Use of on-screen annotations to communicate with remote clients • Thatcher Kelley from SetStream.io showing how to stream to a secure private platform • Built-in http web interface for local on-set instant review of recorded clips and grades • Generating reports and grade index for post houses • Post Workflow for dailies • Short- and Mid-term plans for Live Assist • Q&A Cheers, Mazze

Hi everyone, This online session does not only highlight why you want to do dailies in SCRATCH, but also show you how to do it. Mazze walks you through the complete dailies process – from import to export, incl. all the advantages that come with it. You’ll walk out of this online session, fully prepared to start a dailies job on SCRATCH. Also we will have Ansgar from the COPRA team to show the latest features for v5 their web dailies platform! Dailies in SCRATCH: • settings & project creation • importing clips • offloading • import of ALE/EDL • Media Browser Tool • LUT/CDL loading & matching • audio sync (TC-based + manual sync) incl. LTC • metadata QC + Scene/Take • dailies grading + RAW decode options • color management (i.e. monitor HDR and SDR side by side) • timeline automation • output tree with different deliverables and metadata burn-ins • output filenaming + preset creation • render check / QC reports • import offline clips into Avid, incl. all clip metadata • COPRA Dailies Platform - new Version Demo • Q&A Cheers, Mazze

Yes people - it just went up online 🙂 . Here you go: Cheers, Mazze

Ctrl-select by drawing a rectangle and then move everything to the next frame (hold down X on your keyboard to lock into X-axis movement before starting to drag) 🙂 .

Ctrl-select by drawing a rectangle and then move everything to the next frame (hold down X on your keyboard to lock into X-axis movement before starting to drag) 🙂 .

Slight update here: We will have Thatcher Kelley from www.setstream.io with us tomorrow, showing multi-cam live streaming through this new platform. It's gonna be pretty awesome 🙂 .

Online Session hosted by Mazze Aderhold Wednesday, July 8th 10am Los Angeles | 1pm New York | 7pm Berlin Register here: https://www.assimilateinc.com/join-webinar/ What is this online event about? In this online session we will show you how to use Assimilate Live Assist to boost your on-set workflow and adapt to an era of social distancing and fewer bodies on the set. Whether it’s live grading, live green screen replacement, multi-cam recording & playback or using Live Assist as a Media-hub to live-stream out multiple camera feeds, or instant-review footage and grades from any phone, tablet or laptop near-set. We will also have Stefan King from Difference Live Streaming, showing us the latest developments of their private low-latency streaming platform, and how to use it with Live Assist. Live Assist On-Set Workflow: • Example setup with 2 cameras • Live grading both camera feeds • Live effects & green screen replacement • (auto-) recording and playback of camera feeds • Set up Multi-Cam Live Stream from Live Assist • Use of on-screen annotations to communicate with remote clients • Thatcher Kelley from SetStream.io showing how to stream to a secure private platform • Built-in http web interface for local on-set instant review of recorded clips and grades • Generating reports and grade index for post houses • Post Workflow for dailies • Short- and Mid-term plans for Live Assist • Q&A The event is free for all attendees. The content is designed for DITs and Video Assists. We will also record the event for you to watch later. Please send your questions, comments and feedback to: info@assimilateinc.com

Don't believe so.

Hi all, since metadata is more important than ever before in nowadays vfx-heavy workflows, frame based metadata is also being requested more often by vfx companies. With the latest SCRATCH build from yesterday we added support for frame based metadata from RED RAW footage. This way, you can get frame based lens information (and other metadata) rendered into OpenEXR sequences. VFX-departments can use that information to link to and control the virtual camera inside their compositing software. It's a huge timesaver and enables more accurate vfx work. If you wanna play around with it, get yourself a free license from our webpage: https://register.assimilateinc.com/registration.aspx Release notes are to be found here: http://www.assimilatesupport.com/akb/Download51030.aspx Cheers! Mazze

H264 does support 10 bit (in normal MP4s, but also in MXF - XAVC, XF-AVC and AVC-I are basically 10 bit H264 flavors). However, not all players can decode it. Also not sure whether Resolve allows to render 10 bit h264. In any case - as Stef mentioned, it might be a moot point anyways, since Youtube will convert it back to 8 bit.

You can, but in 99% Youtube will convert it to an 8 bit h264 again and stream that, instead of your 10 bit source. Mainly because browsers to my knowledge are not able to decode 10 bit h264. Next, most monitors that Youtube is being watched on are 8 bit panels anyways. However, many of them have good dithering functionality, taking care of any banding. Given that, you can just export as 8 bit right from the start.

Dolby Vision is on the list - but so far, that's all I can tell at this point, I'm afraid.

Hi all, here is a video that shows how to set up ScopeBox with Assimilate SCRATCH, Live Looks, Live Assist and Play Pro for advanced video measuring: Cheers, Mazze

And here is finally the recording of the session. It is 2 hours long, but after those you'll be able to drive your dailies in SCRATCH 😉 .