Cineform Conversion anyone use?

[Mark Nicholson]

How can you produce 63MB filesize from that zipped dng footage? Mine only goes up to 35MB, so I guess its not raw.
My command line is pretty short: "dpx2cf *.dng c:\dng\new.avi -f23.976 -q5"
(Because the dpx2cf.exe is in the same folder as the dng's.)

If i set "-q6" (not mentioned in the official CF2DPX manual) the filesize is 54MB.

Any other commands to add?

I did this. I put DPX2CF in my DNG folder

DPX2CF *.DNG test.avi -q6 -f 23.976
The resulting Cineform RAW file takes about 2 seconds to create, contains both 1 second clips and is 63MB in size

As for ease of use, maybe I'll start playing around with making a batch file gui that makes it simpler to use. Lots of easy to use programs that do that.

[vealti]

Thanks for the step by step mintcheerios. I've been using Cineform (though never the raw codec) for years and have been wondering if I could keep it with this camera. I'm going to be trying this next week.

[Frank Glencairn]

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As for ease of use, maybe I'll start playing around with making a batch file gui that makes it simpler to use. Lots of easy to use programs that do that.

Oh yes please, that would be a great relieve.

Thanks, Frank

[Mark Nicholson]

scripting.jpg
It will look like this and allow you to select the directory. I wish I had some raw DNG files from the Blackmagic cam to test. I wonder if they are going to be wrapped in a wrapper, or just individual files like the ikonoskop

[Kavadni]

scripting.jpg
It will look like this and allow you to select the directory. I wish I had some raw DNG files from the Blackmagic cam to test. I wonder if they are going to be wrapped in a wrapper, or just individual files like the ikonoskop

Looking good Mark

[Mark Nicholson]

I got it working. I left the instructions here along with the download link: http://eyepatchfilms.com/?p=903 if you want to test it out. This is very very basic right now.

[Frank Glencairn]

Mark you are a wizard - thank you so much.

Frank

[Liszön!]

Great tool! (Not compatible with Win XP, Win 7 only btw.)

Thank you!

[Craig]

Fantastic...I stopped using cineform when adobe's Mercury playback engine was released. I bought the upgrade to studio premium for $49. looks like money well spent.
This should be a sticky.

[Liszön!]

DPX2CF supports a lot other RAW still formats by the way, like TIF, CR2 etc:

http://cineform.blogspot.com/2010/11...eform-raw.html

You just have to replace the file extension in the script.