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ounting the number of intel instructions needed using an excel spreadsheet even that fit on a single page the codec was primarily written and maintained by two engineers brian schunck and myself with some great early help from yan ye the simplicity meant that the magic of the compression was best shrouded in secrecy in 2011 cineform was aquired by gopro which it used it to drive its hd and 3d editing utility gopro studio and resulted in producing millions of consumer created edits our initial play for real time consumer video editing finally happened 10 years later now the cineform codec could be released and it was licensed to many including adobe for free distribution within creative cloud but it was still not open source the cineform codec has shined most brightly when there is a market change changes like sd to hd hd to 2k compressed raw 2k to 4k 2d to 3d and hd to 4k at these times of transition cpu and gpu vendors didn t yet have hardware optimized solutions try software hevc decoding of 4k60 so see this issue for the last few years our computers and mobile devices have had hardware accelerated video decoding for most types of media we are producing even gopro switched from the cineform powered gopro studio to the hardware accelerated quik for desktop so for a couple of years cineform didn t get much attention it was used internally for prototyping but it received very few public updates in 2017 the production market changed again with new opportunities for the cineform codec to provide solutions particularly for greater than 4k sources from premium 360 products like gopro s own fusion and omni cameras the new fusion studio desktop software defaults to cineform for all the greater than 4k exports but unlike gopro studio where cineform was primarily an internal format fusion studio is not an editor the cineform files are meant to be edited in external tools like adobe premiere pro after effects davinci resolve and hitfilm while many video tools do have native cineform support not all do and some can t this gives gopro more compelling reasons to make cineform open source to help support our high resolution cameras the cineform sdk is now open sourced dual licensed under apache 2 0 or the mit license integrator s choice you are now welcome to build new applications around the cineform sdk build it into existing applications and extend its abilities with new performance optimizations and explore new image formats i would love to see it go into many new places and new markets but in particular into popular open source players and transcoders while the cineform wavelet engine might be simple 16 years of coding and optimization have complicated the source so to help with new upcoming compression ists the open source includes a simplified wavelet compression modeling tool simplified cineform for education purposes and some codec design and tuning this was another great step for gopro as it contributes more original projects to the open source community learn more about the cineform sdk open source project on github at https gopro github io cineform sdk posted by david at 8 22 am 29 comments wednesday august 23 2017 eclipse results after my last post here is the follow up with the results eclipse 2017 edit from david newman on vimeo one thing i wish i did was set an additional camera for video with a locked exposure the light levels changed fast when approaching the totality too fast for long interval time lapse to deliver the real time experience also the auto exposure of the tlv and night lapsing cameras reduced the drama of the lighting change so a locked camera would solve both issues i used four gopro cameras for the above video next time i will use five or more posted by david at 1 46 pm 1 comments friday august 18 2017 shooting the eclipse 2017 with a gopro i m planning to find my way into the path of totality and be there with a bunch of gopro gear i ve been asked many times how to shoot this event with a gopro so here are my thoughts disclaimer this is my completely unpracticed opinion on shooting a total solar eclipse with a gopro some basics the whole transit from start to finish somewhat depending on your location is about 3 hours that is pushing the average gopro a little beyond its battery life in a time lapse mode even more beyond in regular video mode as three hours likely produces pretty boring video time lapse is the way to go if you intend to time lapse the entire transit you can use any usb power brick to extend the gopro s run time i ve done a week long time lapse via usb power if you intend to shoot on battery power alone on a full charge i typically get about 2 to 2 5 hours of time lapse on a hero5 black with a 5 10 second interval plan to start your time lapse about 1 hour before totality timing time lapse interval for two hour capture my best estimate is 5 seconds which will be a 48 second video when played at 30p a shorter video to share would be better yet if you are lucky to have two minutes of totality this interval only gets you 24 frames 0 8s of time in the totality if you intend to work on the video with a speed ramp for the less exciting bits then a 1 or 2 second interval might be better but watch out for your battery life framing as you know the gopro lens is very wide forget about getting any close up views well without mounting the gopro against an eyepiece of a telescope which i will be doing in one setup practicing a video frame extracted from gopro through the eyepiece of a sub 200 4 telescope with a solar filter with a wide time lapse consider how the light will change across the landscape so compose your framing to capture that filters a gopro will not be shooting through those safety filters those are for your eyes and telescopes etc using a solar filter on a gopro will give you a very small orange dot that moves across the frame if you are lucky don t do this if you have nd filters you can use them or not modern gopros are used to shooting images that also contain the sun the sun s image is too small on the sensor to do damage exposure control in most cases a gopro is an auto exposing camera this is a good thing for those in the path of totality as the camera will adjust for all lighting conditions give you a good video throughout the downside for those not in the path of totality the auto exposure will reduce dramatic level of changing light level on a hero 4 silver and on hero 4 5 black you can lock the iso to 100 and set a fixed shutter speed but only in the video modes with protune enabled so you will be left to process a lot of video into a timelapse in post you will also need nd16 or nd32 filters to make locking the exposure work for a correctly exposed image at the beginning of you capture time lapse video vs time lapse photo vs night lapse photo time lapse video tlv is the easiest by far producing a small mp4 that is ready to share as soon as the cell service recovers from the network load of millions of eclipse chasers filling small country towns the downside of tlv is there are no protune controls it is all automatic the other two time lapse modes will produce jpgs and gprs if raw is enabled and you can have protune level controls to set the look gopro vs flat white balance iso sharpness etc if you are in the path of totality choose night lapse it will still work during daylight but will take much longer exposures as needed for the dark few minutes my recommendations for those willing to do color correction and post assemble a time lapse night lapse auto shutter 4 second interval protune flat native white balance or 5500k for simpler color correction iso min 100 iso max 800 i will enable raw this will produce 1800 images over 2 hours one set of jpgs and one set of gprs using about 18 gb for storage if you want a fast easy time lapse use time lapse video with a 5 second interval posted by david at 9 38 am 9 comments wednesday may 03 2017 gpmf gopro s metadata format have you ever noticed how little metadata you get from a video file take any jpeg or raw photo from an iphone a gopro or a dslr and you will find extensive metadata stored in exif a photographic metadata standard that stores hundreds of properties such as exposure focal length and camera model etc for your average mp4 mov or avi not so much particularly without the various sidecar files which are so easily lost some of the earliest gopro hd cameras didn t even say gopro anywhere in their video bit streams i feel a manufacturer id is the most fundamental of metadata answering what made this file even some of the professional cameras i worked with at cineform weren t much better metadata should also answer how was this file made in what environment at what location was the camera moving etc so why is photo metadata ubiquitous and video metadata spotty at best the lack of useful video metadata relates to standards or the lack of them we have no exif equivalent for video files particularly for consumer video within mp4 so gopro created one for gopro cameras we couldn t just place an exif within an mp4 as the exposure is changing per frame so that would be a lot of exif data and exif had no clear model for time varying signals this photo standard also assumes that the metadata applies to a particular frame that doesn t work so well for gyro and accelerometer data gopro needed to store both high frequency sensor data and exif like frame based data to describe the image exposure a multiple year effort begins the software ecosystem would love json or some xml variant but embedded camera developers will have none of that complaining of excessive memory usage system load blah blah blah the camera developers would love nothing more than storing raw i²c packets actually proposed once very low overhead but completely opaque to software developers there needed to be a compromise how i accidentally became a firmware engineer to investigate a possible low overhead metadata format i started with the internal format used by cineform s active metadata it needed some work and extensions but it was efficient easy to read and write and should appeal to both embedded firmware and software camps so i wrote a sample application to demo the reading and writing of metadata stored in any camera native format i though it was only a model i was thinking if the format was accepted the camera team would write something better firmware liked it used it as is then filed bug reports against it which i had to fix that was about two years ago and i ve been part timing as a firmware engineer ever since focusing on metadata fast forward to today here is a taste of gopro metadata and telemetry property freq hz comment 3 axis accelerometer 200 all hero5 cameras 3 axis gyroscope 400 all hero5 cameras lattitude longitute altitude 2d ground speed and 3d speed 18 hero5 black with gps enabled utc time and data from gps 1 within the gps stream gps fix 1 within the gps stream 0 no lock 2 or 3 2d or 3d lock gps precision pdop 1 within the gps stream under 300 is good image sensor gain 24 25 or 30 hero5 v2 0 or greater firmware exposure time 24 25 or 30 hero5 v2 0 or greater firmware you can use some of this data today within gopro s quik desktop tool generating cool overlays or do even more using the gopro acquired dashware tools a random video a created 8 months ago using gpmf extracted within dashware gauges rendered and composited in hitfilm dashware telemtry from david newman on vimeo however for this to be truly interoperable its support needs to go beyond gopro in a big step in that direction gopro has open sourced the gpmf reader as a way for third parties to collect process and display video metadata from mp4s developers please check it out https github com gopro gpmf parser there is extensive gpmf documentation and simple code samples posted by david at 3 00 pm 3 comments sunday september 18 2016 protune 3 0 there is new firmware out for your hero4 black and silver cameras and it adds a key feature most often requested by professionals exposure lock this will be my third blog entry in the series in what makes protune the best shooting mode on your gopro see the previous posts on the extended protune 2 0 features for hero 3 and the original protune post for hero2 protune continues in its flexibly in providing the ultimate control over your gopro camera but with last month s firmware update protune expands the control beyond that of hero 3 black in addition to the classic protune native white balance for wide gamut and flat color profile log for greater dynamic range the new shutter control allows you to switch from automatic default to a locked shutter speed related to your selected frame rate for 24p capture the new shutter options are auto 1 24 1 48 and 1 96th of a second for a 60p mode the options are auto 1 60 1 120 and 1 240 so for all protune video modes the shutter can be set for 360 180 or 90 degrees of effective shutter angle the iso mode control when set to max works identically to iso limit is the previous release where the iso will automatic range from 100 to whatever to set in max i typical never want the sensor gain above 1600 a good use the shutter control feature is for removing the motion blur from low light indoor slow motion shots when shooting at 120fps or greater the camera will naturally open to a 360 degree shutter if isn t daylight this will make the slow motion very smooth but too dreamy for some action sequences using a 90 degree shutter will keep the motion blur to a minimum for these demanding shooting conditions switching to lock will disable any auto exposure behaviors in the camera in most lighted situations setting the camera to a fixed iso 100 is best offering the lowest sensor noise but all is not perfect as gopro cameras are designed for durability with no moving parts there no iris aperature control fixing the iso to 100 and the shutter to a longer than typical for action sports normal is around 1 1000th second often there will be too much light due to the wide open f2 8 lens for daylight shooting you will need to add neutral density filters and a lot fortunately the nd32 needed is available for direct lens mounting from this polar pro filter set unfortunately they don t sell the nd32 separately there are other options to adapt the gopro lens mount to traditional filters like this from snake river prototyping great for handling for those rare days when you need nd64 i ve used them all with excellent results manual exposure is here stock up on you nd posted by david at 9 33 pm 7 comments older posts home subscribe to posts atom links gopro web site my gopro 3d printed things my twitter page cineform web site prolost com cineform forums on dvinfo net blog archive 2019 2 july 1 gopro virtual lens may 1 2017 4 october 1 august 2 may 1 2016 2 september 1 april 1 2014 2 march 1 february 1 2012 3 december 1 october 2 2011 7 august 1 june 1 may 2 april 2 january 1 2010 10 december 1 november 3 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