Production Environment

Production Environment Intro / Project 1
February 13, 2023
Professor Chaja

Post Production
Who?
What?
Where?
When?
Why?

Example Facility
Data Room
Server
Room
Color Bay 3
Conform Assists Color Bay 1 Color Bay 2
IT
Reception
Client Services
Producers
Operations
Editing / VFX

Example Facility
Operations
Manager of facility
Control of staff
Hiring Manager
Deals with financing
Decision maker
Usually stressed out of their mind
Example Facility
Producers
In charge of projects
Deals with total budget of that specific project
Uses scheduling/budget software Xytech
Example Facility
Conform
Puts media together into “Reels”
Make sure everything looks nice and
neat
Versioning
Use software like Avid Media Composer
Example Facility
Assists
Do the grunt work for the main colorists
Training to be a colorist
Works with the facility, so colorist
doesn’t have to
Use Filmlight Baselight or Black
Magic Resolve

Example Facility
Color Bay 3
Color Bay 1 Color Bay 2
Do the main work in facility
Many times are locked with a client
Example Facility
Reception
Client Services
Clients are divas, and literally need
catering to
Clients could be locked in the room
with a colorist for 10-15 hours

Example Facility
Data Room
Controls input/output of data
“data wranglers”
Mainly script kiddies
Example Facility
Server
Room
Houses “on prem” data
Mix gear of storage, PC’s and post gear
Example Facility
Editing / VFX
VFX work via Maya/Nuke/Flame
Dirt scratch fixing with MTI Cortex (shown)
Example Facility
IT
Poor souls

Problem? Time+Money = sadge
Data Room
Server
Room
Color Bay 3
Conform Assists Color Bay 1

Color Bay 2

IT

Editing / VFX

Reception
Client Services
Producers
Operations

Solution
Data Room
Server
Room
Color Bay 3
Conform Assists Color Bay 1 Color Bay 2
IT
Script
Producers
Operations
Editing / VFX

Project 1: Overview
Finding frame scratches/dirt from scanning and needing to get them corrected
Script is going automate a bunch of tasks:
Assist in Color Bay marking shots (4-8 hours, $1500 per hour for room, $100 hour operator)
Verifying shots in file system (1-4 hours, $100 hour operator, $25 hour data op)
Producer with a work order with correct files that need fixing (1 hour $50 hour producer)
Edit/VFX receives a CSV with correct files (1 hour $90 hour specialist)
Script is run daily, save company 3k-10k per usage
Timeline: user can “mark” frames for note
Project: Overview
Project 1: import/export script
Import file created from baselight (Baselight_export.txt)
Import xytech work order (Xytech.txt)
Script will parse data
Computation done to match shareholder request, to replace file system from local baselight to facility
storage (remember color correcter’s prefer local storage for bandwidth issues)
Export CSV file (‘/’ indicates columns):
Line 1: Producer / Operator / job /notes
Line 4: show location / frames to fix
Frames in consecutive order shown as ranges
Project: example
Xytech:
/ddnsan2/avengers/reel1/1920×1080
Baselight_export:
/images1/avengers/reel1/1920×1080 10 11 12 13 19 23 24

/ddnsan2/avengers/reel1/1920×1080
10-13

/ddnsan2/avengers/reel1/1920×1080
19

/ddnsan2/avengers/reel1/1920×1080
23-24

Projects Prelims: Overview
All Projects done in Python
You are all Seniors and should be able to adapt to new languages. Start with a beginning
tutorial on Python for setup. Then move to ingesting a log file and be able to read/parse
contents. Finally practice exporting different contents of that data
All projects needs to be crash proof (use argparse)
Modules for XML use and 3rd party API will be used
A single script
Project: why argparse?
All projects needs to be crash proof (use argparse) ex: thisscript.py –job shrek –verbose
#Parse arguments for job
parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
parser.add_argument(“–job”, dest=”jobFolder”, help=”job to process”)
parser.add_argument(“–verbose”, action=”store_true”, help=”show verbose”)
parser.add_argument(“–TC”, dest=”timecode”, help=”Timecode to process”)
args = parser.parse_args()
if args.jobFolder is None:
print “No job selected”
sys.exit(2)
else:
job = args.jobFolder
if args.timecode:
timecodeTC = args.timecode

Take Aways
Learn fundamentals of basic facility
Learn common post production workflow
Show problem areas
How a developer can assist

Weekly Update Question:
*Weekly report for week (Feb 12 Midnight due date)*
-Create a file called “ingest_this.txt”
-type the following in:
This script
Is completely awesome
Like professor chaja
Import file and print on the console and replace every vowel with the number ‘9’
ex: “This” would be “Th9s”
Show code and console output in submission (copy/paste) is fine

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